October 21, 2023 — Leerpodium (Dutch name) / Portfolio.education (international name) is a platform dedicated to portfolio learning. Within this platform, students can build and design their own portfolio site, as a full-fledged autonomous WordPress website. Teachers can organize and facilitate the learning process from a powerful learning system which is fully integrated with the student portfolios.
We are currently hosting thousands of WordPress portfolio’s for multiple educational institutions in the Netherlands, both higher education and secondary schools.
In our talk, we would like to share our insights and lessons learned from developing and hosting WordPress multisite networks for the educational field in the Netherlands.
For more info: leerpodium.nl | portfolio.education

October 13, 2023 — This talk explains how to generate income by teaching WordPress in your community.

Using WordPress as a teaching tool for high school students can help them tap into an entreprenuerial mindset, develop project management skills, and help to surface their creativity.

Learn how developers can get paid contracts with school districts and develop curriculums to teach WordPress in the clasroom.

January 24, 2020 — In this session, I will be showing the audience how to scale and use WordPress for schools. From normal school blogs to a full-blown educational website for the school. I will also be giving tips to starting a school SaaS with WordPress.

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December 10, 2019 — Viviamo in un mondo frenetico e iper-connesso, che ci porta ad agire senza pensare troppo. App, chat, social, videogiochi sono diventati parte integrante della nostra quotidianità e di quella dei nostri figli.
Navighiamo in un oceano di opportunità, ma ignoriamo i rischi che si celano in un click.
In questo talk parleremo di maturità digitale, di cyberbullismo, di privacy, della nostra sicurezza e di quella dei minori.
La sicurezza in rete riguarda tutti noi, qualsiasi sia il ruolo che ricopriamo, come genitori e professionisti. Impariamo come navigare senza naufragare, muniti di una buona bussola per orientarci nel miglior modo possibile.

April 3, 2018 — De bedoeling van mijn talk is onder de toeschouwers brengen dat WordPress verder gaat dan alleen vrije tijd en professionele websites. In vele scholen wordt het platform ook gebruikt voor eindwerken, projecten etc. op scholen.

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December 7, 2017 — Alexandra handles product development at CaptainForm, WordPress form builder launched in 2015 by 123ContactForm. Previously, she worked in project and product management at the same company and developed a deep interest in analyzing user behavior and building solutions based on her findings. The WordPress world is the closest to her heart and she is a frequent WordCamp speaker, volunteer or attendee

February 5, 2017 — Create your own Udemy, Coursera or Khan School through WordPress.

Plan, design, build and deliver online training courses for your product and services utilising some of the best plugins and themes to run your websites in both private or public mode; Free or paid courses by converting the CMS to an LMS.

Learn how to create simple “Micro Courses” that can get your websites up and running using eLearnning authoring tools.

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August 2, 2016 — Our fast moving technology means that kids are using gadgets way earlier each year. This discussion will discuss how children can utilize WordPress.

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May 30, 2016 — How do you write a really good WordPress tutorial? A high-accessible breakdown of how to write about WordPress in a way that is engaging and can be understood clearly. A look through how to: successfully identify people’s problems, establish trust and create an engaging narrative, format code examples, understand how to maximise accessibility, weave in calls-to-action and share your work! The aim is to ensure everybody can come away from the talk much better understanding how to write the awesome WordPress tutorials that can spread knowledge far and wide.

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April 21, 2016 — Materialbereitstellung für den Schulunterricht, Vernetzung einer pädagogischen Fachcommunity, Technischer Support für Fort- und Weiterbildungsinstitute – all das realisieren Jörg, Frank und ihre Kollegen mit WordPress und BuddyPress. Wie sie dazu gekommen sind, wie sie arbeiten und was die anstehenden Entwicklungsschritte und Herausforderungen sind – das möchten sie uns in dieser Session erzählen.