Summer Software Day
About
Summer Software Day (SSD) is an annual event that offers workshops for all Austin Community College (ACC) faculty and staff. The event provides an opportunity to keep up to date with your tech skills and learn new ones to implement in your classrooms and day-to-day tasks.
Welcome to Summer Software Day 2024!
The Future of Education: Adapting to a Changing Landscape
Friday, July 26th, 2024.
SSD workshops will be delivered completely online.
Summer Software Day Checklist
Step 1: Go to the workshop schedule and register. Remember this year SSD is completely online with only the keynote session being offered in a hybrid format (in-person/online).
Step 2: Please make sure that your Zoom application is up-to-date so that you have a smooth and uninterrupted experience. Review this detailed message for how to update Zoom.
Step 3: Please return to this page on Friday, July 26th, go to the workshop schedule page to find your workshop, and click the Zoom link to join!
Step 4: Attend the closing session to see if you win a raffle prize! You must be in attendance to win.
ZOOM HELP
For Zoom help, please call an Educational Technology Specialist at 512-223-0111.
Accommodations
American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters will be provided during the Opening, Keynote, and Closing sessions. Accommodations can be requested for any workshop via the registration form. To view a list of workshops with accommodations, please review this page.
For any questions, please email facdev@austincc.edu.
Morning Sessions
Opening Session:
8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Session 1:
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Session 2:
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
Keynote:
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Afternoon Sessions
Session 3:
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Session 4:
2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Session 5:
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Closing Session:
4:30 – 4:45 p.m.
Summer Software Day 2024 Keynote Presentation
Keynote Description: As educators, we have a constantly growing toolset of abilities to further support student success. This session will highlight how combining innovative techniques with modality flexibility goes a long way in helping students persist, getting us one step closer to our Northstar goal of a 70% student completion rate by 2030. Join us as we share lessons learned from a collegewide pilot, review insights into student success, and highlight how generative AI can help!
Presenter: Stephanie Long, GISP, MSc
Location: The keynote is hybrid with an online and in-person option.
In-person: Highland Campus Rm 2.1526 – Space is limited to 15 people only.
For Zoom help, please call an Educational Technology Specialist at 512-223-0111.
Contact
For questions, please email the Office of Faculty Development at facdev@austincc.edu.