2024 - Tech Day News coming mid-Spring.
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
Michelle Rogers
Director of TLS
IT Teaching & Learning Services (TLS), URI
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.