Speaker Spotlight: Kyle Jones – WordPress and BuddyPress in Education

I’ve listened and learned from some of the best WordPress gurus for the past five years of my experience using WordPress in a variety of educational ways.  But at WordCamp Chicago I’m able to give back to the community that’s given so much to me.  Needless to say, I’m thrilled.

You don’t have to be an educator, instructional technologist, or librarian to get something out of my talk on using WordPress and BuddyPress in education.  Maybe your company needs a new Intranet or you run a non-profit that provides adult learning courses – whatever your situation I’ll walk you through the key tenets of using WordPress and BuddyPress to create personal learning networks that can help your site users have an absolutely wonderful online learning experience.

Along the way I’ll highlight some stellar uses of the WordPress/BuddyPress combination in education and also reflect on my own experiences of creating learning management systems for graduate students using these technologies.