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Jean Amaral (http://cunyac.reclaimhosting.dev/members/jamaral/) started the topic New
& Improved PressForward workshops this Friday
(http://cunyac.reclaimhosting.dev/groups/openatcuny/forum/topic/new-improved-pressforward-workshops-this-friday-3/)
in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY)
(http://cunyac.reclaimhosting.dev/groups/openatcuny/forum/)

Couldn’t make the morning Introduction to PressForward workshop this
Friday? Consider attending the afternoon session from 1-3pm. The morning
intro session is full up, so we reworked the afternoon to include a second
intro session.

For those who can’t get enough of PressForward, we’ll be having a Train the
Trainers/Community Building and Brainstorming Session from 3-5pm as well.

Use the link below to register for either of the intro sessions. Look
forward to seeing you there!

PressForward Workshops – A tool for community building and
knowledge sharing
September 23, Graduate Center Room 9204

Introduction to PressForward, 10am-12pm
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-pressforward-
tickets-27668582475

or 1pm-3pm (choose one)
RSVP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pressforward-train-the-
trainers-tickets-27668599526
(Please note that the text on the RSVP hasn’t been updated to reflect the
new schedule, but that’s okay the registration still works!)

Co-sponsored by the Library Association of CUNY, the Graduate Center’s
Teaching and Learning Center, the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, and
the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Center for Excellence in
Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship.

Interested in learning new ways to gather content from the open web and to
share it with your students, colleagues, and scholarly communities? On
September 23rd, the Graduate Center will host two workshops on PressForward(
http://pressforward.org/), a free, open-source WordPress tool that
facilitates the easy collection, selection, discussion, and redistribution
of content from the web. These workshops will introduce interested faculty,
students, and staff to PressForwardand help build a CUNY community to
encourage and support the tool’s future use.

About PressForward
As the pace and volume of scholarly communication increases, teachers and
researchers are confronted with the need to find and share relevant,
current content with their students and colleagues. PressForward, developed
by the Roy Rozensweig Center for History and New Media–the creators of
Zotero (http://zotero.org) and Omeka (http://omeka.org)–improves your
ability to find, curate, and share content from the web. By adding an RSS /
Atom feed reader and editorial workflow directly into the WordPress
dashboard, PressForward makes it easier for academic communities to develop
edited collections of content. Available for download from the
WordPress.org Directory and on the CUNY Academic Commons, PressForward is
designed to help you find, filter, and share open access resources among
communities of learners and scholars.

PressForward is the technology supporting large-scale, community-edited
publications such as Digital Humanities Now, dh+lib, PLOS Collections, and
Microbe.net, as well as small-scale student publications such as Situating
the Global Environment fromLewis and Clark College.

About the Workshops
On September 23, in Room 9204 of the Graduate Center, we will hold two
workshops on PressForward. Attendees are welcome to join us for both
workshops; please RSVP for each so we have an accurate count (see links
below)!

Introduction to PressForward, 10am-12pm and 1-3pm (same material covered in
both sessions)
In this introductory workshop, new users will participate in a hands-on
introduction to PressForward. The workshop will cover accessing
PressForward from the WordPress Dashboard, adding feeds, selecting content
to review, and organizing and publishing curated content. Attendees will
also explore the editorial practice of group curation, and consider how
PressForwardmight be integrated into a range of projects inside and outside
the classroom at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

There are no prerequisites to enroll, though some familiarity with
WordPress would be useful.

Train the Trainers and Community Building Brainstorm, 3pm-5pm

In this “Train the Trainers” workshop, participants with some experience
using PressForward (including those who attended the Introduction to
PressForward workshop and who wish to stay) will look at examples of
PressForward’s use across a range of institutions, explore how to organize
and activate communities of users, explore methods for recruiting and
training new users, and learn how to engage with PressForward’s active
support community and forums.

Free registration required:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pressforward-train-the-
trainers-tickets-27668599526​

NOTE: These will be “hands on” workshops. Participants are encouraged to
bring their own laptops. A limited number of laptops will be available to
borrow on site.

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Jean Amaral (http://cunyac.reclaimhosting.dev/members/jamaral/) started the topic New
& Improved PressForward workshops this Friday
(http://cunyac.reclaimhosting.dev/groups/openatcuny/forum/topic/new-improved-pressforward-workshops-this-friday-3/)
in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY)
(http://cunyac.reclaimhosting.dev/groups/openatcuny/forum/)

Couldn’t make the morning Introduction to PressForward workshop this
Friday? Consider attending the afternoon session from 1-3pm. The morning
intro session is full up, so we reworked the afternoon to include a second
intro session.

For those who can’t get enough of PressForward, we’ll be having a Train the
Trainers/Community Building and Brainstorming Session from 3-5pm as well.

Use the link below to register for either of the intro sessions. Look
forward to seeing you there!

PressForward Workshops – A tool for community building and
knowledge sharing
September 23, Graduate Center Room 9204

Introduction to PressForward, 10am-12pm
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-pressforward-
tickets-27668582475

or 1pm-3pm (choose one)
RSVP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pressforward-train-the-
trainers-tickets-27668599526
(Please note that the text on the RSVP hasn’t been updated to reflect the
new schedule, but that’s okay the registration still works!)

Co-sponsored by the Library Association of CUNY, the Graduate Center’s
Teaching and Learning Center, the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, and
the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Center for Excellence in
Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship.

Interested in learning new ways to gather content from the open web and to
share it with your students, colleagues, and scholarly communities? On
September 23rd, the Graduate Center will host two workshops on PressForward(
http://pressforward.org/), a free, open-source WordPress tool that
facilitates the easy collection, selection, discussion, and redistribution
of content from the web. These workshops will introduce interested faculty,
students, and staff to PressForwardand help build a CUNY community to
encourage and support the tool’s future use.

About PressForward
As the pace and volume of scholarly communication increases, teachers and
researchers are confronted with the need to find and share relevant,
current content with their students and colleagues. PressForward, developed
by the Roy Rozensweig Center for History and New Media–the creators of
Zotero (http://zotero.org) and Omeka (http://omeka.org)–improves your
ability to find, curate, and share content from the web. By adding an RSS /
Atom feed reader and editorial workflow directly into the WordPress
dashboard, PressForward makes it easier for academic communities to develop
edited collections of content. Available for download from the
WordPress.org Directory and on the CUNY Academic Commons, PressForward is
designed to help you find, filter, and share open access resources among
communities of learners and scholars.

PressForward is the technology supporting large-scale, community-edited
publications such as Digital Humanities Now, dh+lib, PLOS Collections, and
Microbe.net, as well as small-scale student publications such as Situating
the Global Environment fromLewis and Clark College.

About the Workshops
On September 23, in Room 9204 of the Graduate Center, we will hold two
workshops on PressForward. Attendees are welcome to join us for both
workshops; please RSVP for each so we have an accurate count (see links
below)!

Introduction to PressForward, 10am-12pm and 1-3pm (same material covered in
both sessions)
In this introductory workshop, new users will participate in a hands-on
introduction to PressForward. The workshop will cover accessing
PressForward from the WordPress Dashboard, adding feeds, selecting content
to review, and organizing and publishing curated content. Attendees will
also explore the editorial practice of group curation, and consider how
PressForwardmight be integrated into a range of projects inside and outside
the classroom at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

There are no prerequisites to enroll, though some familiarity with
WordPress would be useful.

Train the Trainers and Community Building Brainstorm, 3pm-5pm

In this “Train the Trainers” workshop, participants with some experience
using PressForward (including those who attended the Introduction to
PressForward workshop and who wish to stay) will look at examples of
PressForward’s use across a range of institutions, explore how to organize
and activate communities of users, explore methods for recruiting and
training new users, and learn how to engage with PressForward’s active
support community and forums.

Free registration required:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pressforward-train-the-
trainers-tickets-27668599526​

NOTE: These will be “hands on” workshops. Participants are encouraged to
bring their own laptops. A limited number of laptops will be available to
borrow on site.

View/Reply
(http://cunyac.reclaimhosting.dev/groups/openatcuny/forum/topic/new-improved-pressforward-workshops-this-friday-3/)
This topic was also posted in: LACUNY Emerging Technologies Committee
(http://cunyac.reclaimhosting.dev/groups/lacuny-emerging-technologies-committee/forum/topic/new-improved-pressforward-workshops-this-friday-2/),
and LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
(http://cunyac.reclaimhosting.dev/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/new-improved-pressforward-workshops-this-friday/)
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