Summer Software Day Workshop Schedule

Workshop Description: Interactive workshop on balancing wellness and technology in the digital age. Learn heart-centered techniques to create community and reduce stress for teachers and students.

Presenter: Stacy Ramirez & Aida “Betina” Watkins

Workshop Description: Nearpod is an interactive presentation tool that can take your static power points with Blackboard multiple-choice questions and turn them into a robust lesson increasing student participation and feedback. This tool is particularly helpful for providing real-time feedback and increasing student participation and collaboration with a few easy steps.

Presenter: Jennifer Lazare

Workshop Description: This workshop equips faculty with tools to support student mental health, recognize distress signs, foster supportive interactions, and reduce academic stress.

Presenter: Kenneth Luna & Rebeka Villarreal

Workshop Description: In this workshop, you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Blackboard course as lessons, discussions, or assessments. This will be a hands-on workshop where you can follow along with the activities and add VoiceThreads into your course modules.

Presenter: George Haines

Workshop Description: Interactive workshop on balancing wellness and technology in the digital age. Learn heart-centered techniques to create community and reduce stress for teachers and students.

Presenter: Stacy Ramirez & Aida “Betina” Watkins

Workshop Description: This workshop will cover an introduction to LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor. We will cover all the details to get you started and advanced features, including best practices and tips for success with both applications.

Presenter: Arie Sowers

Workshop Description: Join your colleagues as they share insights from their 2024 Lilly Conference experience, including tips on the latest technology, classroom engagement, student belonging, effective teaching methods, and mindfulness practices.

Presenter: Dr. Theresa Glenn

Workshop Description: If you want to know how to integrate AI into your classes, look no further.

Presenter: Stuart Greenfield

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.

Workshop Description: The AI Assistants workshop offers faculty members a valuable opportunity to explore the intersection of AI technologies and writing pedagogy from an ethical perspective.

Presenter: Alex Watkins

Workshop Description: This workshop provides a basic overview of Google Forms with tips for planning and creating your forms using content strategy to design informative and effective forms from the start.

Presenter: Dr. Rachel Barrera

Workshop Description: Join OIRA as we explore DOMO dashboards open to all employees. Learn how other departments and units at ACC are utilizing DOMO to surface insights.

Presenter: Matthew Figg

Workshop Description: Since introducing Adobe Express in late 2021, Adobe has continuously rolled out new features and tools to successfully demonstrate the unique ability that Express has to unlock creativity across users of any creative skill level. The most recent Express changes over the previous couple of months are providing easier and more powerful ways for users to design content with text, graphics, images, videos, animations, and audio. No Adobe application experience required for this session.

Presenter: Donna Caldwell

Workshop Description: Applied Digital Skills with Google will support you as an instructor while you facilitate students to learn new technology applications skills via project-based learning.

Presenter: Deborah Petty

Workshop Description: In a world where so much information is at the fingertips of our students, discover how Packback harnesses the power of Instructional AI to transform traditional learning environments into dynamic hubs of curiosity and engagement. This session will showcase innovative ways educators can leverage Packback’s AI-driven platform to foster critical thinking, encourage meaningful discussions, and create personalized learning experiences that inspire students to explore beyond the textbook.

Presenter: Ri Cantlin

Workshop Description: Explore effective strategies for managing ADHD in professional settings in this interactive workshop. Learn to enhance focus, regulate emotions, and manage stress with tailored tools and insights.

Presenter: Bethany Swoveland

Workshop Description: Learn about accessible digital design principles, accessible document best practices, and tools and techniques for creating inclusive content with Google apps, MS Office, and Blackboard.

Presenter: Sean Loraas & Emily Perhamus

Workshop Description: Live demonstration showing how to pull on-demand data on ACC courses, enrollment, and transfers, and highlighting links to key OIRA data dashboards.

Presenter: Christopher Morris

Workshop Description: Struggling with online engagement? Engage students with Miro’s visual collaboration. Create interactive activities, cater to diverse learners, and build a more inclusive online classroom.

Presenter: Lani Dame & Lisa Yates

Workshop Description: This will focus on the use of GenAI to help faculty with instructional and administrative tasks. All the warnings and caveats will be addressed but more importantly the tools for productive and enhanced instruction

Presenter: Dr. Herb Coleman

Workshop Description: Join us to learn web design with the easy-to-use Google Sites, open for beginners and those enhancing their skills.

Presenter: Robert Foster