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August 2024

2023 Tech Day Youtube

Our playlist has been made available to registered attendees. Check your e-mails for the link.

What is Tech Day?

Every August IT hosts an annual ed tech innovation day for faculty, with multiple tracks and virtual sessions centered on a new theme each year.

Both URI ed tech support staff and faculty present use case studies, best practices, ideas, solutions, technology curriculum design, and emerging educational technology innovations. Tech Day participants may pick and choose sessions of interest to take technology enhanced learning to the next level.

Past Tech Day Videos

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Tech Day 2023 – Schedule of Topics

8:30am

Welcome to the new Tech Day Platform

8:45am
Join us for an introduction to the day and orientation to how the virtual conference event platform works so you can find the talks you want.

All Day Q&A and Support Session

8:30am – 5:00pm
This is an all day support session, always open and always staffed to answer questions and help you access talks.

9am

Learn, Explore, and Discuss the AI Chatbot Project at URI

Jim McGwin
Professor
College of Business, URI
Faculty Success Story

Engage Students with Advanced Webex Apps

Bob Viens
Associate Directof IT Community Services
IT Services, URI

10am

Customized Virtual Reality by the Innovations Team VR Lab

Dylan DiFilippo
VR Lab Student Assistant
President of the Student Gaming Club
IT Innovations Team, URI

Create Engagement and Build Focus in your Classroom with ReadSpeaker

Ginger Dewey
Trainer
Readspeaker
New tool integrated into Brightspace.

10:30 – 11am

Discover the AI

Indrani Mandal
Faculty/students examples using URIs AI Lab

11am

Alternative Assessment & Learning Design in the Face of AI

Todd Dresser
Associate Director, Faculty Development
Office for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning (ATL), URI

Advanced Zoom Features to Engage Interactivity

Bob Viens
Associate Directof IT Community Services
IT Services, URI

Noon

AI Generated Images & Graphics with Midjourney

Advanced Interactive Features for Panopto Videos

Lisa Chen
Instructional Technologies Support
IT Teaching & Learning Services (TLS), URI

1pm

Future of AI in Higher Ed with Breakout Discussions

Amanda Jensen
Information Technology Project Leader
IT Teaching & Learning Services (TLS), URI

Case Study – Active Learning with Poll Everywhere in Biology

Chris Thawley
Jess Adams

Professors
Biology Department, URI

2pm

Customizing Educational Content: Hands-on Training with ChatGPT and Google Extensions

Stan Skrabut
Director of Instructional Technology & Design
Dean College

Fine-tune your Brightspace Skills and Efficiency with these10 Brightspace Tools.

Michelle Piper
Customer Success Manager
D2L/Brightspace

3pm

Utilizing OER, Video, and Library Resources in Brightspace

Amanda Izenstark
Professor, Reference & Instructional Design Librarian
Julia Malyuta
TLS Student Assistant

Create Interactive Lessons with Top Hat

Shannon Toms

Top Hat Trainer

4pm

Classroom of the Future Roundtable

Katie Babula
Manager of IT AV
IT Services, URI

Taking videos Beyond Just Recording with Camtasia’s Video Editing, Enhancements, and Interactivity

Casey Seiter
TechSmith Trainer

5pm

Tech Day Wrap Up & Feedback

Please come join the organizers for this informal session to close the day and gather feedback about the event so we can improve it in the future.