Wish you could jump into the digital conversation by actually using digital and social media? You can. JustPublics@365 is offering free workshops for academics on Wednesday, March 6th, from 10am to 1pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY. These Graduate Center Ph.D. students will be offering workshops to help faculty and graduate students improve their digital skills. Each workshop runs 45 minutes and they are BYOD (bring your own device, or computer). FREE and open to anyone (photo ID required to enter building).
An Introduction to WordPress for Scholarly Web Presence
For researchers, it is becoming more and more important to get our work to the public through digital means. One key medium is a scholarly website that includes your work and research interests. This workshop will cover the basics of how to set up and add content to a WordPress site through the OpenCUNY.org system.
Fiona Lee (@fionally) is a Ph.D Candidate in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research interests are in Southeast Asian literature and culture, postcolonial theory, race and gender studies, and digital pedagogy. She is currently a Dissertation Fellow at The Graduate Center’s Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change and an Instructional Technology Fellow at Macaulay Honors College, CUNY.