Peter Pappas, education, was one of 50 presenters at “PressED: A WordPress and Education, Pedagogy and Research Conference on Twitter,” on Thursday, March 29. The conference is made up of sessions based on 10-15 tweets in a fifteen minute period of time (plus follow up twitter discussion). Presenters can add videos, gifs, slides, links or whatever they like to their tweets. PressED is a global Twitter conference (#pressedconf18) looking into how WordPress is used in teaching, pedagogy and research. The focus will be on how university-based educators and their students are innovating with WordPress. See PressEdConference18: Presenter’s Twitter List. Pappas’ session is PBL with Digital Storytelling Tools and showcases work by his fall 2017 Methods students in their collaboration with the Oregon Jewish Museum.
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Bob Butler, environmental studies emeritus, presented “Cascadia Earthquake Science and Hazards: A Central Oregon Perspective” to the Bend Rotary Club on March 27, 2018.