Welcome and Committee Presentation

Morris Hall - Craven Lounge

The conference committee will highlight the history of public and open initiatives in SUNY, connect these efforts to national trends, and discuss the intention of this conference and future collaborations.

“Treasures that prevail:” A Liberatory Approach to Digital Infrastructures

This talk will draw connections between the interdisciplinary collaborations and technical innovations in marine biology in the mid-20th century and the contemporary opportunities and affordances of digital infrastructures for learning and research. What deep dives should we take into understanding, choosing, and utilizing technologies? How do these choices reflect our pedagogical and disciplinary boundaries? And how might our reckoning with the contexts of digital scholarship help students reconcile tensions between surfaces and depths, private and public scholarship, and our academic and professional selves?

Ignite Session Morris 104

Morris Hall - Room 104

Ignite Sessions feature six presenters giving short presentations meant to “ignite” or “spark” ideas in others.

Ignite Session Morris 130

Morris Hall - Room 130

Ignite Sessions feature six presenters giving short presentations meant to “ignite” or “spark” ideas in others.

Faces in TIME, 1923-2014: an interactive web resource

Morris Hall - Room 104

I will present a beta-version of an interactive web resource that examines an archive of Time magazine containing 3,389 issues ranging from 1923 to 2014, focusing on images of faces. The website, Faces in Time, will provide visitors with a set of tools with which to explore our data and our research findings.

e-Portfolios for digital identity development, career management and lifelong learning

Morris Hall - Room 130

Jill and Karen will share processes and products of e-portfolio learning and assessment activities in an online, asynchronous course. Jill will share her communication strategy that identified an audience, format, goals, and intended audience response. Karen will share learning activities, assignments, and adult learning principles underpinning the design of the e-portfolio course work, including lessons learned and ongoing use cases.

Expanding Students’ Digital Fluency Using Canva for Education Tools

Morris Hall - Room 130

This presentation will showcase Canva, a free digital design platform that provides a variety of design tools and projects that will develop your students’ digital literacy skills easily on one platform. Their free educational membership will allow you and your students to design digital media that is innovative, engaging, and easy to do!

Between Paper and Pixels – Building Community During COVID through SUNY Oneonta’s Pandemic Diary as Blog and Book

Morris Hall - Le Cafe

This presentation will examine the cross-disciplinary teamwork behind the creation of a pandemic blog and book based on the experiences of the SUNY Oneonta community during the COVID pandemic between Spring 2020-Spring 2021. It will reflect on the technical, emotional and editorial challenges of creating a living archive, historical record and medium for community self-reflection and expression during a crisis.

¿Cómo suena?: An open pedagogical approach to content and assessment creation

Morris Hall - Room 104

¿Cómo suena? is an open textbook developed by SUNY Oneonta students. Thanks to the work of three student cohorts, this textbook contains modules that are comparable to content found in commercially-sold textbooks. The use of online platforms has allowed for the housing of the OER textbook and for the management of the project through the distribution of tasks and accountability trackers.

SUNY Oneonta Academic Research: Journal of Undergraduate Social Science

Morris Hall - Room 104

SOAR is an open-access undergraduate social science journal. It’s a selective peer-reviewed forum that is student-run and faculty-advised. The goal of SOAR is to provide undergraduate students with an outlet for publishing rigorous academic research. This journal is also a part of the SUNY Open Access Repository which archives published works so works can be found on a global level.

Faculty and Student Perspectives on Cultivating Career Readiness with Online Experiential Project-Based Learning

Morris Hall - Room 130

During this presentation, we will share faculty and student perspectives on a semester-long online experiential learning project and its effect on career readiness. A faculty will share their pedagogical practices, tips, tools, and lessons learned while teaching the project. A former student will share their retrospective perspective, emphasizing the career-readiness competencies they gained or struggled with throughout the semester.

Progress over Perfection: Non-traditional Students’ Learning Journey to Confidence, Belonging, and Digital Fluency

Morris Hall - Le Cafe

Two non-traditional learners will share their stories of transition into fully online, asynchronous digital learning experiences. Key factors for overcoming challenges in confidence, belonging, and technical & digital fluency included time, communication, and understanding expectations. The instructor will share strategies to support learner’s transition by connecting course content to authentic contexts, mastery learning, and designing and sequencing learning processes.

Integrating Digital Humanities in First Year French Language Instruction through Project-Based Language Learning

Morris Hall - Room 130

This presentation will give an account of the steps adopted in the curriculum to allow the integration of Digital Humanities during the first year program of French language teaching. The goal is to provide students opportunities to showcase what they can do with their French language abilities and demonstrate ownership of their projects and the language.

Getting Started with Digital Badging and Micro-credentialing

Morris Hall - Le Cafe

If you have wondered what the “buzz” is all about with digital badging and micro-credentialing, join this session to learn more about them and how to get started using digital badges in your courses. We will also discuss the differences between them and discover several ideas for designing micro-credentials in your department.

Bringing Learning Technology to the World of Student Affairs: Transitioning a Mandated MOOC to a Learning Engagement Platform

Morris Hall - Room 104

This presentation highlights how a campus health educator utilized online technology to exceed federal and state educational mandates for all new students. We will discuss the transition from a platform with limited student interaction to the OLI platform which provides insight into learning and engagement. Thus providing the ability to adapt in-person programming content to the needs of the students.