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SUMMARY:Expanding Students’ Digital Fluency Using Canva for Education Tools
DESCRIPTION:Attending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below. \nSpeaker\nDr. Gina Solano\nAssistant Professor \nBrief Description\nThis workshop 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! \nFull Abstract\nAre you looking for an easy solution to innovate your curriculum without having to learn a dozen new apps and tech tools? Good news! Canva is a digital design platform that now provides free subscriptions for students and educators. By integrating Canva’s digital design tools\, you and your students can create mind maps\, videos\, multimedia presentations\, infographics\, digital media\, and websites\, and even collaborate together on a digital whiteboard. Canva has recently unveiled several new upgrades so that even the simplest assignment with a document can now be designed with a professional touch. It is collaborative and supports peer and group projects. It also provides a variety of ways to share your digital designs by providing a variety of file times and public URLs. It makes it easy to add variety to your curriculum and develop digital literacy skills that are highly sought after in the modern workplace. Come learn what Canva has to offer! Plan for Session \nSession Objectives\n\nIntroduce Canva and provide an overview of the platform.\nDiscover Canva’s new tools that are designed for education.\nIdentify the resources Canva has provided for educators.\nProvide hands-on practice by designing 1-2 simple projects. Presenter Headshot\n\nBiography\nDr. Gina Solano is an Assistant Professor of Educational Technology in the Department of Secondary Education and Educational Technology. She teaches a variety of courses in educational technology\, research\, and teaching methods on such topics as technology trends\, STEAM\, multimedia\, online learning\, instructional course design\, and more. Her research involves the use of technology for service learning\, social justice\, and improving teaching and learning. Dr. Solano is avidly involved in providing professional development for K-16 educators by participating in conferences and workshops for improving technology adoption practices. When not at work\, she loves to travel\, craft\, and cook with her family. She considers herself a teacher\, techie\, and traveler! \nSession Notes\nAttending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below.
URL:https://diglearning.sunycreate.cloud/event/expanding-students-digital-fluency-using-canva-for-education-tools/
LOCATION:Morris Hall – Room 130
CATEGORIES:Individual
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SUMMARY:e-Portfolios for digital identity development\, career management and lifelong learning
DESCRIPTION:Attending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below. \nSpeakers\nDr. Karen Caldwell and Jill Benedict \nBrief Description\nJill 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. \nFull Abstract\ne-Portfolios are a student-centered\, multi-dimensional and empowering learning activity and authentic assessment. When e-portfolios are embedded in a semester-long course and designed according to evidence-informed learning & assessment principles\, students have the time\, safe space\, and learning community to plan\, design\, and craft their digital identity and connect their learning to both career management and lifelong learning. This student & faculty team will share the process and product of e-portfolios in a graduate business program where learners first make sense of course content\, engage in the class learning community to connect course content to their lived experience and to authentic contexts including their own professional lives within the “safe space” of the learning management system (LMS). Students evaluate course content and display it in a digital form for a targeted audience\, personalizing the format. With this engagement\, feedback\, and the opportunity to iterate\, students then create public-facing materials in their own website or e-book for a designated audience and purpose. \nSession Objectives\nBy the end of the session\, participants will learn: (1) adult learning principles related to e-portfolios; (2) learning & assessment activities for embedding e-portfolios in course work\, and (3) free apps and tools to support e-portfolio development \nBiography\nDr. Karen Caldwell\, Assistant Professor in the School of Education & Professional Studies is a training\, development and adult learning specialist specializing in cognitive science and digital literacy. Karen collaborates with faculty and academic staff to design and develop applied learning experiences for students that are authentic\, employ digital media\, and connect course content to public-facing applications. Since completing her doctorate in Mind\, Brain\, & Teaching 2018\, Karen has placed special emphasis in her courses on student agency\, applied learning\, and career readiness competencies and mindsets.  Karen’s TEDx Talk\, Learning out Loud\, touched on several of her passions & research related to teaching & learning. \nCo-Presenter Bio\nJill Benedict is the Executive Director of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Gaming Commission and a member of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe. At the age of 45\, more than 20 years after obtaining her bachelor’s\, Jill decided to pursue an MS in Management at SUNY Potsdam in the Organizational Leadership track. As a result\, Jill has introduced new concepts to her organization and improved her leadership skills. This article better explains her journey. \nSession Notes\nAttending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below.
URL:https://diglearning.sunycreate.cloud/event/e-portfolios-for-digital-identity-development-career-management-and-lifelong-learning/
LOCATION:Morris Hall – Room 130
CATEGORIES:Individual
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SUMMARY:Faces in TIME\, 1923-2014: an interactive web resource
DESCRIPTION:Attending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below. \nSpeaker\nDr. Ana Jofre\nAssistant Professor\nSUNY Polytechnic \nBrief Description\nI 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. \nFull Abstract\nThis is an examination of an archive of Time magazine containing 3\,389 issues ranging from 1923 to 2014\, focusing on images of faces. We extracted 327\,322 faces from the archive\, categorized all of them by gender\, and obtained detailed characteristics of a subset of 8\,789 of those faces. \nOur research explores relationships between images and their corresponding socio-political contexts. For example\, in one published study\, our analysis revealed that the percentage of faces that present as female was closely aligned with larger currents in women’s history and the history of feminism . Specifically\, we found that the percentage of female face images peaked as women became more active in public life\, and waned in eras characterized by anti-feminist backlash. We also noted a change in tone and content as Time\, from the 1970s onwards\, began hiring and promoting more women as writers\, photographers\, and editors. This is one of several findings. \nWe seek to disseminate our findings to broader audiences through a web-resource with interactive visualizations that allow visitors to explore the faces\, as well as the trends in the metadata that we extracted from the faces. The proposed website\, Faces in Time\, will provide visitors with a set of tools with which to explore our data\, analysis\, and findings. Digital platforms afford readers the ability to interactively re-contextualize images in a way that encourages critical thinking\, positioning them as investigators rather than passive consumers of visual and media culture. \nIn this interactive presentation\, I invite the audience to engage with a beta version of the Faces in Time website. I will present 4 visualizations\, describe the design rationale of each\, and allow time for the audience to interact with the site to provide feedback. \nSession Objectives\nParticipants will engage with a new web resource that is in development\, and will have the opportunity to provide feedback for improving the design. Presenter Headshot Biography Ana Jofre is an Assistant Professor at SUNY Polytechnic. Her research engages with the digital humanities\, with a particular interest in creating aesthetic informative web resources. \nContact\nhttps://anajofre.com/\njofrea@sunypoly.edu \nSession Notes\nAttending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below.
URL:https://diglearning.sunycreate.cloud/event/faces-in-time-1923-2014-an-interactive-web-resource/
LOCATION:Morris Hall – Room 104
CATEGORIES:Individual
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SUMMARY:Developing a Community Engagement Framework: Assessing Social Capital\, Confidence and Resilience in Online Learners
DESCRIPTION:Attending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below. \nSpeakers\nDr. Roxana Toma and Matthew Berge \nBrief Description\nWe are drawing on the work of Redmond et al (2018) and their proposal of an Online Engagement Framework for Higher Education to investigate new methods of course design and instruction that can increase student perceptions of social capital\, their confidence and resilience in the learning process. We are also measuring students’ sense of belonging and community in online environments. \nFull Abstract\nWe are drawing on the work of Redmond et al (2018) and their proposal of an Online Engagement Framework for Higher Education to investigate new methods of course design and instruction that can increase student perceptions of social capital and their confidence and resilience in the learning process. \nTo begin this journey\, we are building on the four student engagement themes proposed by Redmond et al: the cognitive\, behavioral\, collaborative\, and emotional capital. In our proposed model\, these will serve as constructs\, or latent variables that influence students’ social capital (another latent and our dependent variable). In addition\, we are taking concepts from the community of inquiry framework\, community of practice\, epistemic engagement\, transformative learning and identity construction\, and emotional management theory to propose a new and improved Community Engagement Framework that can more closely identify the elements leading to students’ perceptions of social capital. To do so\, we are bringing in a myriad of indicator variables that can potentially measure or influence the latent independent variables from the model as well as our dependent variable – students’ social capital. We also look to measure students’ sense of belonging and community in online learning environments. \nAt this stage\, this research is theoretical in nature\, but our intention is utilizing this new model to survey online students to cross-validate our framework with path analysis and structural equation modeling. We also plan to survey online instructors to identify practice-based use of the engagement constructs that we propose. Results from both studies will assist colleges\, universities\, and course instructors to design and deliver online courses that facilitate increased learner engagement and empower students to build confidence and resilience throughout the online learning process. \nSession Objectives\nBy the end of the session\, participants will be well versed in the contemporary literature in distance education and will find themselves intrigued by our proposal to create a new form of online learning (which is classically asynchronous) that is closer to hybrid. Research shows that hybrid learning has better learning outcomes\, and we posit that it also leads to better engagement and increased social capital and students’ sense of belonging. \nBiography\nRoxana Toma (Ph.D.\, North Carolina State University) is the Chair of the Graduate Liberal Arts and Sciences Division and an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the M.A. in Social and Public Policy in the School for Graduate Studies at SUNY Empire State College. She is also the Chair of the Institutional Review Board at SUNY Empire State College. Dr. Toma has a B.S. in Economics\, a Ph.D. in Public Administration and takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine social capital models of attitude and value formation. Her doctoral research on corruption earned her the Graduate School Dissertation Award at North Carolina State University (2009) and she is recipient of the Susan H. Turben Award for Excellence in Scholarship at SUNY Empire State College (2015). \nCo-Presenter Bio\nMatthew Berge is a SUNY 2021-22 PRODiG Scholar close to completing his MA degree in Social and Public Policy. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from SUNY Empire (2021) with a BA in Social Science and a focus in Government\, Health and Society. He is the recipient of the SUNY Empire State Award for Student Excellence (2022)\, the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence (2022) and the SUNY ACT for Excellence and Student Initiative Scholarship (2022). \nSession Notes\nAttending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below.
URL:https://diglearning.sunycreate.cloud/event/developing-a-community-engagement-framework-assessing-social-capital-confidence-and-resilience-in-online-learners/
LOCATION:Morris Hall – Le Cafe
CATEGORIES:Individual
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SUMMARY:Keynote - Digital Infrastructure\, Digital Humanities\, and Student Professional Growth
DESCRIPTION:Attending the keynote? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below. \nKeynote Speakers\n\nLisa Marie Rhody: Director of the Digital Humanities Research Institute and Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives at The Graduate Center\, CUNY.\nCharlie Edwards: OpenLab Co-Director; Commons In A Box OpenLab Co-Project Director; Opening Gateways Co-Director.\nJessie Stack Lombardo: Director of the Career Design Center\, SUNY Geneseo.\nTaylor Jaydin: Community Instructional Technologist\, Reclaim Hosting.\n\nSession Notes\nAttending the keynote? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below.
URL:https://diglearning.sunycreate.cloud/event/keynote-digital-infrastructure-digital-humanities-and-student-professional-growth/
LOCATION:Morris Hall – Craven Lounge
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T115000
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SUMMARY:Ignite Session Morris 130
DESCRIPTION:Attending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below. \nSpeaker 1\nMr. Tim Clarke\nInstructional Designer\nMuhlenberg College \nThe WordPress Dashboard Tells Its Own History – close reading a user interface \nBrief Description\nAcross 20 slides\, I will show how the WordPress administrative interface or “dashboard” tells its own history\, once you look closely and consider the metaphors employed by the software\, itself. A guided ‘close reading’ of WordPress helps students learn\, contextualize the software\, and explore with greater confidence. \nFull Abstract\nWordPress was originally released on May 27\, 2003\, which means parts of that software are as old or older than many of our incoming students at Muhlenberg College. The longevity and evolution of WordPress attests to its usefulness. But this should also caution against making broad assumptions of prior knowledge or technical understanding when introducing WordPress to new users\, especially college-aged or younger ones. \nAcross twenty slides\, I will demonstrate how the WordPress administrative user interface\, like nearly every site of human/computer interaction\, contains a telling of its own genesis\, developmental history\, markers of its iterative development\, and in the case of WordPress its open source (F/LOSS) roots. \nThis close reading of the WordPress administrative interface helps students (new to WordPress) better understand the purpose of the software. A guided reading of WordPress’s affordances also helps students remember and contextualize its many features as they consider their own needs and projects. This framing of user interfaces as bounded\, material things with tangible analogs helps demystify them and builds student confidence. Lastly\, presenting WordPress as software shaped over time by input from the WordPress community helps illustrate the nature and relative advantages of F/LOSS. \nSession Objectives\n\nBy the end of this Ignite session\, participants will experience a quick “close reading” of a user interface.\nParticipants will be prompted to consider how a guided close reading of WordPress will help students to better understand the software’s affordances\, and what the software means to accomplish.\nParticipants will be challenged to introduce new software (new to students) by locating analogs\, tangible precedents\, or mental models that help illustrate the material nature of that digital tool.\n\nBiography\nI am the Senior Instructional Design Consultant within Muhlenberg College’s Digital Learning Group. I oversee our Domain of One’s Own initiative\, which we call ’Berg Builds. I work closely with students to support many digital learning initiatives\, tools\, and techniques. \nSpeaker 2\nMs. Mariya Gluzman\nAdjunct Lecturer\nCUNY Brooklyn College \nHelping students build digital fluency and other transferrable skills in a business ethics course using a hands-on collaborative multimedia project \nBrief Description\nShowcase of a collaborative scaffolded multimedia assignment that emphasizes experiential learning\, guides students as they learn to apply ethical analysis to a business ethics case\, and helps them develop digital fluency and other practical skills and career readiness competencies. \nFull Abstract\nOne common complaint among undergraduates is that they are often required to take certain humanities courses that they see as not contributing any useful skills toward their career readiness. Putting aside the utility of general knowledge and critical thinking skills often gained from taking these courses\, there is a way to integrate useful practical skills and professional competencies — such as digital fluency\, communication\, and collaboration — into a humanities course without compromising its integrity. During my “ignite” session I plan to showcase a collaborative scaffolded multimedia assignment that represents a major assessment in my business ethics course and emphasizes experiential learning. For this assignment\, teams of students research and create an original business ethics case study\, which they produce as a YouTube video using one of three formats. The assignment is set up to teach students the basics of project management as they are guided through a series of tasks from brainstorming through co-production to completion. Stand-up meetings\, in-person check-ins\, and weekly reports and deliverables are built into this project. Teams discuss and choose collaboration and communication technology and methods. They also evaluate different technologies that they can use to produce their multimodal artifacts\, learn how to use them\, and upload their videos to YouTube. During this project\, students develop valuable and highly transferrable skills\, such as digital communication\, media research\, technology assisted co-production\, and others. Furthermore\, all this hard and soft skill development is happening while students are actually engaging with course subject matter on a deeper level and applying what they have learned as part of their ethical analysis. \nSession Objectives\nDuring this session\, participants will \n\nExplore an example of an assignment in a humanities (business ethics) course that integrates experiential learning\, digital fluency\, and other practical skills with research and analysis that are often emphasized in humanities;\nConsider creating scaffolded multimedia assignments in their own courses. Presenter Headshot\n\nBiography\nMariya is a seasoned educator and instructional designer. She has taught undergraduate philosophy courses as an adjunct lecturer at Brooklyn College\, CUNY\, since 2001. Throughout that time\, Mariya also studied pedagogy and educational technology. She holds a Master’s Degree in adult education and advanced certificates in instructional technology and project management. She also completed several professional development programs and workshops\, earning several microcredential and completion certificates. Her commitment to pedagogy makes her an effective and innovative educator and a competent instructional designer. Mariya’s primary interests are digital humanities and open pedagogy. Much of her work focuses on harnessing digital and social media to advance the promise of accessible higher education. \nSpeaker 3\nEmerita Palencia\nAcademic Technologist\nCarleton College \nDigital Transformations: New ways of Engaging in Research\, Scholarship\, Creativity \nBrief Description\nThis session will showcase our current use of digital tools at Carleton College to encourage excellence in teaching\, learning and scholarship through innovation\, collaboration\, and creative solutions. \nFull Abstract\nThis session will showcase our current use of digital tools at Carleton College to encourage excellence in teaching\, learning and scholarship through innovation\, collaboration\, and creative solutions. You will see visual representations of student\, staff\, and faculty work which would not be possible without the support of many departments and resources across our campus. This active\, communal engagement in teaching and learning creates a dynamic\, innovative and meaningful environment for all members of our community\, especially our students. Find out how we\, at Carleton\, are exploring and supporting digital innovation in research\, scholarship\, and creative expression. \nSession Objectives\nBy the end of this session\, participants will: \n\nreflect how digital tools are used at their institution\ndiscover ways in which to support active community engagement at their institution\n\nBiography\nEm (she/her) is an Academic Technologist at Carleton College. Her primary duties include supporting the College’s learning management system and digital presence platforms offered to all students\, staff\, and faculty. Through web support\, Em helps others cultivate their teaching and learning through new pedagogical practices and technological advancements. \nSpeaker 4\nDr. Cailyn Green\nAdjunct Instructor \nThe Flipped Classroom: Online \nBrief Description\nMoving the flipped classroom online takes dedication to the new way of thinking and teaching. This ignite session is geared towards giving information about what the flipped classroom is\, its benefits and how it can look in an online setting. \nFull Abstract\nWhen educators went through an extremely sudden shift to online virtual classes\, many lost the engaging nature of the flipped classroom and reverted back to lecture-style teaching. This ignite session is focused on the benefits of the flipped classroom approach and how to successfully incorporate it into an online teaching modality. \nSession Objectives\nAt the end of this session\, participants will understand what the flipped classroom looks like in an online real. Participants will discuss how they can adjust their classroom to reflect the flipped classroom basics and participants will assess the benefits of the flipped classroom. \nBiography\nCailyn Green\, MS\, Ph.D.\, CASAC is the Assistant Professor of Addiction Studies at the State University of New York\, Empire State College. She has been a part of the SUNY academic team since 2014 teaching online courses. Dr. Green is responsible for mentoring students\, developing courses in the addiction studies field and maintain a strict research and community service agenda. \nShe earned her bachelors of arts degree in psychology from Wester New England University\, her masters of science degree in forensic mental health from Sage Graduate School and her Ph.D. in criminal justice with a specialization in addiction science from Walden University. Dr. Green is also a Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor in New York State. \nDr. Greens area of expertise is supporting clinicians who work in the addiction field to best serve their clients. She spent her hands on clinical time working directly with the recently incarcerated population. She has taught online classes for over 9 years in a variety of methods. \nSpeaker 5 \nDr. Melissa Wells\nAssistant Professor \nSupporting Higher Education Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder through Universal Design for Learning \nBrief Description\nStrategies to support neurodiverse students with ADHD in Higher Education. \nFull Abstract\nStudents with diverse learning needs are becoming more prevalent in higher education institutions. There has been a substantial rise in the number of adult learners with ADHD (American College Health Association\, 2020). To ensure the support and achievement of neurodiverse learners\, especially higher education students with AHDH\, higher education faculty should implement strategies within their courses to support all learners. One framework frequently utilized in K-12 settings is Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL provides access to content by focusing strategies on engagement\, various means of displaying content\, and supporting learners in demonstrating their learning in a way that best supports their learning needs (CAST\, 2018). Specific UDL strategies that would have a positive impact on learners with ADHD are discussed. \nSession Objectives\nIn this session participants will \n\nlearn characteristics of ADHD in adult learners\nlearn strategies for teaching neurodiverse adults in higher education.\n\nBiography\nMelissa Wells is an Assistant Professor at Empire State College in the Educational Studies Department. Her passion is inclusionary educational practices of neurodiverse students and students with disabilities from birth through adulthood. Prior to teaching in higher education\, Melissa was a Special Educator in the New York City Department of Education. \nSession Notes\nAttending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below.
URL:https://diglearning.sunycreate.cloud/event/ignite-session-morris-130/
LOCATION:Morris Hall – Room 130
CATEGORIES:Ignite
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SUMMARY:Ignite Session Morris 104
DESCRIPTION:Attending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below. \nSpeaker 1\nDr. Travis Matteson\nAssistant Professor \nBrief Description\nThis presentation discusses digital tools to help students engage with Indigenous histories and communities\, with the goal of exploring the cultural importance of land\, disrupting the myth of the “vanishing Indian\,” and developing a digital advocacy mapping project. \nFull Abstract\n“Firsting and lasting\,” according to Jean O’Brien\, is a narrative construct used by New England colonists to write American Indians out of local histories. By honoring the “firsts” of the colonists (schools\, founders) and elegizing Indian “lasts\,” local historians effectively narrated the myth of Indian “extinction” despite the persistence of local Indigenous populations. \nThis presentation discusses tools to help students identify and respond to examples of “firsting and lasting” in their local communities. Though O’Brien’s research focus is southern New England\, students find that there is ample evidence of this narrative construct in New York’s local histories. In a class called “Global Perspectives\,” I first introduce the context of Land Acknowledgments using a variety of print and video examples. From this foundation\, I ask students use the Native Land digital map to identify and discuss the Indigenous territories on which they live\, study\, and work. Then\, students search a database of New York State historical markers for their hometown using search terms like “first” and “Indian” and reflect on their findings. Finally\, students work together to develop infographic maps that acknowledge the history of “firsting and lasting” and advocate for engagement with their local Indigenous histories\, cultures\, and communities. \nObjectives\nAt the end of this session\, participants will learn how to access digital tools for mapping Indigenous history in their local communities. \nBiography\nTravis Matteson is an Assistant Professor of English & Humanities at SUNY Alfred State College. He teaches courses writing\, literature\, and global awareness with a focus on using digital tools for civic engagement. \nSpeaker 2\nMr. Taylor Jadin and Amanda Schmidt\nReclaim Hosting \nTeach Your Students to Fish: Open-Source in the Classroom \nBrief Description\nWhere do open-source tools fit in a classroom? This session explores the balance between open-source tools and closed platforms\, and how the impact they have on the learning environments we create for students. \nFull Abstract\nWhere do open-source tools fit in a classroom? Closed platforms and tools are typically designed to be easy to use above all else\, while open-source tools often require students to dig into the details and learn new skills to make the most of them. The costs of these tradeoffs are not always immediately obvious\, and striking an appropriate balance can be difficult to do. This session will focus on how those tradeoffs often play out in the classroom\, and offer strategies to encourage the adoption of open-source tools that can empower your students. \nObjectives\nThroughout this session\, participants will: 1. Reflect on the tools students are asked to use 2. Examine the relationship they have with those tools\, and what effect that relationship has on student learning \nBiography\nTaylor is Reclaim Hosting’s Community Instructional Technologist\, as well as a proud husband and father\, teacher\, musician\, avid camper\, and unashamed nerd. He is passionate about educating and empowering people who want to make cool stuff on the web! Before joining the team at Reclaim\, Taylor graduated from St. Norbert College with a Bachelor of Music in Music Education\, and went on to teach K-12 Instrumental and General Music before returning to his alma mater to support faculty\, staff\, and students in their use of technology to elevate teaching and learning. \nCo-Presenter Bio\nAmanda is Reclaim Hosting’s Instructional Support Specialist with a background in digital humanities support and instruction at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo\, Open Educational publishing with SUNY OER Services\, and a Bachelor of Arts in English\, focusing on Old and Middle English dialects. Building her lifelong learning path and career around digital and informational literacy and access\, she is completing her Masters in Library and Information Science at the Texas Woman’s University to better understand service and research structures surrounding the present information landscape\, specifically in higher education institutions. \nSpeaker 3\nColleen Kaminski\nInstructional Designer \nTop 10 List: Personalizing Your Brightspace Environment to Your Students \nBrief Description\nFaculty will learn quick ways they can develop and maintain regular and substantive interaction with students in the Brightspace environment. \nThis fun session will be presented using the “David Letterman’s top ten list” format. These 10 tips will assist faculty in personalizing their course to their students in Brightspace. The tips are easy to implement and help students feel connected. \nFull Abstract\nAs SUNY continues to transition to the Brightspace environment\, this ignite session will help faculty personalize their courses to each student. Research shows that students who feel connected to the instructor and classmates are more persistent and successful in online courses. Faculty will learn quick ways to personalize their course in Brightspace so they can develop and maintain regular and substantive interaction with students. \nThis fun session will be presented using the “David Letterman’s top ten list” format. These 10 tips are easy to do and faculty can begin implementing them in Brightspace immediately. This will enhance the engagement with students in their course. The personalization students will feel as a connection with the instructor and classmates increases can enhance retention and success. \nObjectives\nAt the end of this session\, participants will: ∷ Learn new features/functions in Brightspace ∷ Know how to include students voices in Brightspace ∷ Understand the value of new tools in Brightspace \nBiography\nColleen Kaminski is an instructional designer at SUNY Broome. She has more than 20 years of experience in higher education working in academic affairs and student affairs. As an adjunct instructor and instructional designer she has taught online for four institutions and has created a community among her students in the virtual learning environment. \nSpeaker 4\nMr. Michael Panetta\nEducational Technologist \nStories from the Front: Empire State College’s Experience with the LMS Transition \nBrief Description\nThis session is a partial deconstruction of the processes that Empire State College developed and executed as part of the LMS transition\, with respect to the pedagogical and practical implications of such a move. It is an unvarnished view into the high points and low of the transitional period as a member of Cohort One. \nFull Abstract\nCohort One is in the middle of its first term with Brightspace as its new learning management system. Though the transition has been successful in some ways\, in other ways Empire State College has seen a great level of pushback from all user groups\, from faculty and adjuncts to professional staff to the students whose experience in the LMS is formative for their education. The purpose of this presentation is to present to the SUNY community Empire’s experiences with the transition and\, in doing so\, provide the campuses that are to start their transition as part of the next cohorts as well as organizations outside the SUNY aegis with a clear view of what to expect\, what mistakes we made while doing so\, and what we did to remediate them. It is our goal to also provide similar feedback to the SUNY administration as well\, for the purposes of streamlining the administrative process as well as provide potential solutions to problems in the process that we\, at Empire State College\, discovered along the way. \nThis presentation combines observations made by the various technology and instructional design departments represented in Empire State College along with user anecdotes about their use and experiences within Brightspace. It is an unvarnished view into our campus’s world after transition to assist and provide context for campuses awaiting the start of the transition process. Processes to follow through on\, processes to avoid\, and so on. \nObjectives\nAt the end of this session\, participants will: – Understand the processes developed by Empire State College to transition the campus to a new LMS. – Make connections between policies developed by their home campuses and Empire State College to determine best practices for LMS transition. – Develop best practices for the transition of student and instructor data to a new system. \nBiography\nMichael Panetta\, an educational technologist from Empire State College. In my role\, I have developed relationships across the college spectrum\, with faculty\, staff\, and students\, throughout our work as part of Cohort One of the SUNY LMS Transition effort. I primarily work with faculty in the remediation of courses from our previous LMS\, Moodle\, to Brightspace and\, in doing so\, help inform policy as it relates to the technical aspects of the transition. \nSpeaker 5\nDr. Lisa Berardino\nAssociate Professor SUNY POLY \nAsking Asynchronous Students: What more would you like in your courses? Investigating learning preferences in the online asynchronous classroom \nBrief Description\nTwo professors serving on an assessment team explore these questions: How to offer more to asynchronous students\, to ensure their full learning experience? What is recommended to faculty seeking to increase interaction? What do asynchronous students seek in terms of live (synchronous) sessions\, professor recordings\, and live face-to-face meetings? From the viewpoint of assessment\, what faculty offerings provide assessment gains? \nFull Abstract\nAsking Asynchronous Students: What more would you like to see in your courses? Investigating student learning experiences and preferences in the asynchronous classroom \nThe evolution of education in the digital age provides newly developed modes of teaching that must be assessed to facilitate an environment that is conducive to learning. Not only must we prepare students for the field we are teaching\, but we must also have knowledge of what students expect from their classes. \nUnderstanding classroom modality preferences\, including student needs in synchronous online classroom is critical in providing the tools necessary for student success. This incorporates the opportunities of synchronous lectures\, recordings\, one-to-one meetings with their Professor. This study investigates both online and traditional classroom student preferences for lectures and classroom meetings. \nWhat do asynchronous students really want for their learning experiences? How can dedicated professors deliver the content that asynchronous students value. Do students really watch the videos offered? Some professors report adding optional synchronous sessions. These are not scheduled during registration\, but are delivered at a mutually convenient time. One issue is what to call these class meeting sessions in the async environment: drop-ins\, meet and greets\, group study sessions\, bonus material ? \nThe College of Business at SUNY POLY offers MBA and MS Accounting degrees in the asynchronous (all online) format. A promise is made to the student that no meetings at a certain time will be required. In contrast\, undergraduate business and accounting degrees classes are offered in two distinct formats: traditional in-class and online asynchronous. Students select a format and are to stay with that format. \nFaculty assessment discussions have asked these questions: How to offer more to asynchronous\, to ensure a full learning experience? \nOne specific recommendation is for each professor to include a course COMMUNICATION plan in the syllabus along with the typical office hours. This lists and offers to students a range of ways to receive substantive engagement and feedback. Here\, the optional synchronous offerings can be listed. \nIn conclusion\, what do asynchronous students seek in terms of live (synchronous) sessions\, professor recordings\, and live face-to-face meetings? From the viewpoint of assessment\, what faculty offerings provide assessment gains? This presentation will offer our questions\, our exploration and conversations with our students\, and make recommendations to those interested in student-centered learning. \nObjectives\nConsider student preferences for increased interaction with faculty. Co-Presenter Bio Katie Matt is an assistant professor in the SUNY POLY accounting program. Katie currently serves on the College of Business assessment committee. Her areas of research focus on accounting education\, online learning\, valuation\, and forensic accounting. \nBiography\nLisa Berardino\, Associate Professor SUNY POLY\, faculty in the College of Business\, has more than twenty years experience in online teaching. I attend many SUNY ONLINE workshops. I have taken several LUMEN circles teaching development courses. I currently serve on our College of Business assessment committee. I use adaptive learning programs\, create recordings\, and continue to explore innovative teaching methods. \nSession Notes\nAttending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below.
URL:https://diglearning.sunycreate.cloud/event/ignite-session-morris-104/
LOCATION:Morris Hall – Room 104
CATEGORIES:Ignite
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SUMMARY:“Treasures that prevail:” A Liberatory Approach to Digital Infrastructures
DESCRIPTION:Attending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below. \nSpeaker\nLisa Marie Rhody\nDirector of the Digital Humanities Research Institute and Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives\nThe Graduate Center\, CUNY \n\nFull Abstract\nThis 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? \n\nBiography\nLisa Marie Rhody\, a scholar of 20th and 21st-century American poetry\, has served as deputy director of Digital Initiatives at The Graduate Center\, CUNY since 2015. She holds faculty appointments in the M.A. in Liberal Studies\, M.A. in Digital Humanities\, M.S. in Data Visualization\, and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Doctoral Certificate programs. Prior to arriving at The Graduate Center\, she was associate director of research and research assistant professor at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University and worked on public and digital humanities projects\, including Zotero and Press Forward. Lisa earned her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from thehttp://umd.edu/where she deposited one of the first “digital dissertations” in the humanities. \nSession Notes\nAttending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc and view the final notes below.
URL:https://diglearning.sunycreate.cloud/event/treasures-that-prevail-a-liberatory-approach-to-digital-infrastructures/
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SUMMARY:Welcome and Committee Presentation
DESCRIPTION: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. \nSession Notes\nAttending the presentation? Take shared notes in this Google Doc.
URL:https://diglearning.sunycreate.cloud/event/welcome-and-committee-presentation/
LOCATION:Morris Hall – Craven Lounge
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