WordPress 6.0 Review / WordPress for Educators in Pandemic Times
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We're back at Microsoft. This meetup is in-person and will start at 6pm.
To attend this event you will need to provide proof of vaccination or a negative covid test within the week of the event. Please see below for instructions.
== WordPress 6.0 Review ==
WordPress 6.0 was released on May 24th. In this talk, we’ll take a tour of the new release including new Block Editor features and improvements to Full Site Editing.
PRESENTED BY: Timothy Jacobs
== WordPress for Educators in Pandemic Times ==
Cast adrift into a COVID Sargasso Sea, the experts stayed studiously silent about how we teachers could do what we do best, in person, in concrete block classrooms, but now online. For two years. Like Luddites smashing looms, I despaired of a Pepsi or Coke conundrum: punching my well-crafted ephemera, crammed into dusty manila folders in rusty cabinets, to fit Google Classroom’s square pegs or Microsoft Teams’ round holes. Many sleepless nights were logged.
This presentation is about how WordPress saved me from abandoning my pursuit of teaching the world, when it all switched up in March 2020:
PRESENTED BY: Robert Lewis
== ABOUT THE PRESENTERS ==
Timothy Jacobs is a WordPress developer at iThemes where he works on the iThemes Security plugin. He’s a WordPress Core Committer for the REST API component. You can find him at https://timothybjacobs.com where he attempts to blog semi-regularly about WordPress development.
Robert Lewis is a full-time member of the UFT-CWE chapter, and makes his wage producing curricula, delivering instruction & assessment, and now, designing LMS for the Consortium for Worker Education, Nontraditional Employment for Women and the Edward J. Malloy Initiative for Constructions Skills. Foolishly, perhaps, he will matriculate into a Teachers College regime, commencing Fall 2022.
== IMPORTANT: READ BEFORE YOU ATTEND ==
- Please make sure you bring a photo ID.
- You will need to provide proof of vaccination or a negative covid test within the week of the event.
- Microsoft has created an online submission option to streamline the process and reduce lines. If you choose not to use this form, you will still need to provide proof of vaccination or a negative covid test when you check in at the event: https://msrtw.powerappsportals.com/en-US/
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