This post is now six weeks overdue but I’m adding it here for the sake of completeness if nothing else! The second PressED Conference, run by the apparently inexhaustible Pat Lockley and Natalie Lafferty, happened way back in April and it was just as fun and inspiring as last year’s event. The range of presentations was really eclectic and thought provoking and I particularly enjoyed Lorna Jane Richardson’s keynote on the Public Archaeology Twitter Conference, which was the original inspiration for PressED, and Kevin Gannon’s keynote on Letting Students Own Their Learning. I also learned some Not So Stupid WordPress Tricks from Alan Levine 
This year I was involved in two presentations one, with Ewan McAndrew, on our use of SPLOTS to support digital skills, and one with Frances Bell, Maren Deepwell and Sheila MacNeil reflecting on our experience of facilitating the #femedtech Open Space for OER19. I’ve posted both presentations in separate blog posts here:
- Supporting Digital Skills with SPLOTs!
- Reflections on the #femedtech Open Space
Weirdly, I still find twitter presentations far more nerve-wracking than speaking in public, I’m not sure why because I’ve used twitter routinely for almost ten years, and it’s a medium I’m usually really comfortable with. Maybe it’s some kind of odd performance anxiety :} Here’s a Top Tip I wrote for newcomers to the conference to help with those nerves. 