FTI 2018: Full Schedule

Registration is required for the 2018 Faculty Technology Institute.
Handouts and course materials available to registered attendees in the FTI 2018 Google Drive Folder

8:30am PDT

Breakfast

Monday May 14, 2018 8:30am - 9:30am PDT
Council Chamber

Food

9:00am PDT

Welcome and Introduction

Monday May 14, 2018 9:00am - 10:20am PDT
Council Chamber

General Session

10:30am PDT

Using R for Statistics

In this session we’ll introduce R a free statistical programming language and discuss how it is being used at L&C.

Rstudio Server link: http://34.211.91.212/

Speakers

Yung-Pin Chen

Professor of Statistics, Lewis & Clark College

Monday May 14, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Dubach Mac

Core Strengths

10:30am PDT

Intro to ArcGIS & StoryMaps at L&C

This session will provide a brief overview of ESRI's ArcGIS and StoryMaps tools, including what they are, how to access them, and how they are being used in research and education today.

Speakers

Julio Appling

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Monday May 14, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Dubach PC

Maps and More!

10:30am PDT

Universal Design: Technology Accessible to All

How can we make sure the technology we use, and offer, is accessible to everyone? ”Universal design” is the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation. In this session, we’ll be talking about making (and keeping) technology barrier-free, ways to bridge the gap between technology and the affordances of those who use them, and the importance of innovating equitably.

Speakers

Patti Palczewska

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Elizabeth Young

Enterprise Applications Developer/Administrator, Lewis & Clark College

Monday May 14, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Thayer

Tech Tamer

10:30am PDT

Hands on 360 VR Video - Shoot & Stitch

This past Spring Break, IT hosted a VR Storytelling Workshop for the LC community. It was a hit and produced compelling VR films; some personal narratives, and some purely creative explorations. In this first session of a two-part course, we’ll look at VR examples, then unleash participants with VR cameras to shoot footage and “stitch” the videos into a seamless 360 degree video experience.

Speakers

Justin Counts

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Monday May 14, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Monteith

What's Next?

11:45am PDT

Lunch

Monday May 14, 2018 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Council Chamber

Food

12:45pm PDT

Fighting Disinformation, Misinformation, and Spin: New Techniques in Online Media Literacy

Join author and instructional designer Mike Caulfield for a tour of new research in digital literacy on how best to teach students to sort fact from fiction (and everything in between) on the web. This is a workshop session that will introduce you to new techniques – please bring a laptop!

Mike Caulfield is currently the director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University Vancouver. He has worked in educational technology since 1997. Over the past eight years he has worked specifically on the intersection between digital literacies and civic participation. His most recent work draws from recent research on how fact-checkers quickly verify facts on the internet, and how that knowledge can be applied to improving the quality of digital literacy education at the undergraduate level.

Monday May 14, 2018 12:45pm - 2:00pm PDT
Council Chamber

General Session

2:00pm PDT

Individual Work Time

Work on your own or by appointment with dedicated technical support.

Monday May 14, 2018 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Dubach PC

Maps and More!

8:30am PDT

Breakfast

All American
- scrambled eggs
- pure country pork sausage
- sliced fresh fruit platter
- breakfast potatoes
- orange juice, caffè umbria coffee, and stash teas

Tuesday May 15, 2018 8:30am - 9:00am PDT
Council Chamber

Food

9:00am PDT

Google Classroom

Google Classroom is designed to ease organization tasks for teachers who want to use Google Apps with their students. In this hands-on session, see how you can create a class, manage assignments, and communicate with ease. See how working with Classroom looks like for students. We'll also discuss some of Classroom's limitations.

Speakers

Miranda Carney-Morris

Director of Educational Technology, Lewis & Clark College - IT/Educational Technology

Tuesday May 15, 2018 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Dubach PC

Core Strengths

9:00am PDT

ArcGIS Online Basics

ArcGIS Online contains a suite of tools for creating maps, widgets. In this session, you’ll learn about some of the features of ArcGIS Online, and how it works with Story Maps. Special emphasis will be placed on the ArcGIS Online Map Maker.

We'll follow the tutorial provided here: https://learn.arcgis.com/en/projects/get-started-with-arcgis-online/

Speakers

Mark Dahl

Director of the Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College

Jeremy McWillliams

Digital Services Coordinator, Lewis & Clark College

Programming, LAMP stack stuff, Omeka, Wordpress.

Tuesday May 15, 2018 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Dubach Mac

Maps and More!

9:00am PDT

Assessing Media Projects

That’s one snazzy video...how do I grade it? We’ll cover the essentials of establishing a rubric for evaluating multimedia projects, and explore some of the different factors that play into grading and assessment.

Speakers

Julio Appling

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Tuesday May 15, 2018 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Thayer

Tech Tamer

9:00am PDT

Is Personalized Learning on the Horizon at L&C?

Personalized learning is an oft-used blanket term for attempting to meet the needs of individual students based on their starting points, their learning styles, and their varied interests -- a task that technology may help to make easier. Together we’ll discuss some of the benefits of and concerns around personalized learning, and how technology plays a big part.

Speakers

Esme Miller

Patti Palczewska

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Elizabeth Young

Enterprise Applications Developer/Administrator, Lewis & Clark College

Tuesday May 15, 2018 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Monteith

What's Next?

10:30am PDT

What's New with G Suite?

What have you been up to, Google? Quite a bit! We’ll check in on what’s new, what’s gone, and what’s changed in G Suite over the past year.

Speakers

Julio Appling

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Tuesday May 15, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Dubach PC

Core Strengths

10:30am PDT

Using QGIS to Create Maps w/Data Sets

This session is an opportunity to dip your toes into the world of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS software is a powerful tool for presenting data in a spatial way. We will use the open source QGIS Geographic Information Systems software application to analyze and present census data that applies to the Portland Metro area.

Speakers

Parvaneh Abbaspour

Science & Data Services Librarian, Lewis & Clark College

Mark Dahl

Director of the Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College

Tuesday May 15, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Dubach Mac

Maps and More!

10:30am PDT

Tools for Remote Teaching

Advances in synchronous communication technology is minimizing the need for teachers and students to share a classroom. In this session, we’ll take a look at what virtual learning looks like, and share some tools and tips on how to teach in a successful virtual learning space, with a focus on teaching remotely.

Speakers

Patti Palczewska

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Tuesday May 15, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Thayer

Tech Tamer

10:30am PDT

Hands on 360 VR Video - View & Basic Editing

In this second part of the VR Video course, we’ll learn to view and edit VR videos using Adobe Premiere. At the end, we’ll be able to watch your movies in VR goggles.

Speakers

Justin Counts

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Tuesday May 15, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Monteith

What's Next?

11:45am PDT

Lunch

curry leaf buffet
- split pea dal
- basmati or brown rice
- raita
- tandoori chicken
- seasonal fruit chutney
- naan bread

Tuesday May 15, 2018 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Council Chamber

Food

12:45pm PDT

High-Performance Computing Cluster & Big Data at L&C

The LC High Performance Computing Cluster (a.k.a “BLT”) has been available to the campus community since January. This session will provide a demo of the cluster, discussion on ways it can be used, and anecdotes from students and faculty members who used/are planning to use BLT.

Speakers

Jeremy McWillliams

Digital Services Coordinator, Lewis & Clark College

Programming, LAMP stack stuff, Omeka, Wordpress.

Tuesday May 15, 2018 12:45pm - 2:00pm PDT
Council Chamber

General Session

2:00pm PDT

Individual Work Time

Work on your own or by appointment with dedicated technical support.

Tuesday May 15, 2018 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Dubach PC

Maps and More!

8:30am PDT

Breakfast

All American
- scrambled eggs
- applewood smoked bacon
- sliced fresh fruit platter
- breakfast potatoes
- orange juice, caffè umbria coffee, and stash teas.

Speakers

Miranda Carney-Morris

Director of Educational Technology, Lewis & Clark College - IT/Educational Technology

Wednesday May 16, 2018 8:30am - 9:00am PDT
Council Chamber

Food

9:00am PDT

TechTapas: Google Drive File Stream

Exclusively available to G Suite customers, Drive File Stream replaces the Google Drive desktop app. We’ll take a look at it’s features and functionality, and configuration options, and see how it compares to similar cloud storage apps.

Speakers

Julio Appling

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Wednesday May 16, 2018 9:00am - 9:25am PDT
Dubach Mac

Core Strengths

9:00am PDT

TechTapas: MapWarper

MapWarper is a free service that lets you georeference any image. Specifically, you can take an image file of a historic map and turn it into a map layer for inclusion in nearly any map-based project. Learn how to use MapWarpers simple interface, and deploy a georeferenced historic map to Story Maps.

Tutorial and sample historical map can be found here.

Speakers

Jeremy McWillliams

Digital Services Coordinator, Lewis & Clark College

Programming, LAMP stack stuff, Omeka, Wordpress.

Miranda Wood

Crime Analyst, Portland Police Bureau

Wednesday May 16, 2018 9:00am - 9:25am PDT
Dubach PC

Maps and More!

9:00am PDT

TechTapas: Two-factor Authentication

You may have heard about Two Factor or Multi Factor Authentication -- in fact, if you bank online you probably already use it. Find out more about it and why it helps keep your data safer.

Speakers

Jess Odom

Elizabeth Young

Enterprise Applications Developer/Administrator, Lewis & Clark College

Wednesday May 16, 2018 9:00am - 9:25am PDT
Thayer

Tech Tamer

9:00am PDT

TechTapas: One-minute Lightboard Lectures

This is your chance to demonstrate your passion about a subject in one minute. What’s the catch? You’ll use our Lightboard (like a whiteboard, but with lit up colors) to demonstrate your topic in glorious eye-popping neon colors.

Speakers

Justin Counts

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Wednesday May 16, 2018 9:00am - 9:25am PDT
Geary

What's Next?

9:30am PDT

TechTapas: Tapping into the Power of Google Keep

Google Keep, a lightweight deceptively powerful note-taking app, has flown under the radar for a while. We'll look at its other uses which include drafting texts, voice notes, making and sharing to-do lists, and more!

Speakers

Julio Appling

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Wednesday May 16, 2018 9:30am - 9:50am PDT
Dubach Mac

Core Strengths

9:30am PDT

TechTapas: Mapping Real-time Data

Discover providers of real time data, and learn how to apply the data to maps.

Speakers

Miranda Wood

Crime Analyst, Portland Police Bureau

Wednesday May 16, 2018 9:30am - 9:50am PDT
Dubach PC

Maps and More!

9:30am PDT

TechTapas: Facebook Security Update

There’s been a lot of news about data security and Facebook lately. In this session we’ll discuss some basic security measures you can take, not just in your settings, but in your use of Facebook and similar platforms.

Speakers

Jess Odom

Elizabeth Young

Enterprise Applications Developer/Administrator, Lewis & Clark College

Wednesday May 16, 2018 9:30am - 9:50am PDT
Thayer

Tech Tamer

9:30am PDT

TechTapas: Flipgrid

Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" of short discussion-style questions that students respond to through recorded videos. Each grid is effectively a message board where teachers can pose a question and their students can post 90-second video responses that appear in a tiled "grid" display. Grids can be classes, sections, groups of students, research groups, faculty groups, or any collection of users interested in a common strand of questions.

Speakers

Justin Counts

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Wednesday May 16, 2018 9:30am - 9:50am PDT
Geary

What's Next?

9:55am PDT

TechTapas: PearDeck

PearDeck is our supported audience response tool available to all users on our domain. We'll cover the basics of setup and configuration, and walk through a few use case scenarios.

Speakers

Julio Appling

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Wednesday May 16, 2018 9:55am - 10:15am PDT
Dubach Mac

Core Strengths

9:55am PDT

TechTapas: OpenRefine tricks for GIS

OpenRefine is a tool for cleaning up messy data. It can also connect with APIs, so you can use your data to get more data. This session will demonstrate show a use case for augmenting a data set with image data from Google Street View API for inclusion in a Story Map.

Speakers

Jeremy McWillliams

Digital Services Coordinator, Lewis & Clark College

Programming, LAMP stack stuff, Omeka, Wordpress.

Miranda Wood

Crime Analyst, Portland Police Bureau

Wednesday May 16, 2018 9:55am - 10:15am PDT
Dubach PC

Maps and More!

9:55am PDT

TechTapas: Backups

In this session we’ll work through how to develop and implement a backup strategy to keep your digital stuff secure.

Speakers

Miranda Carney-Morris

Director of Educational Technology, Lewis & Clark College - IT/Educational Technology

Wednesday May 16, 2018 9:55am - 10:15am PDT
Thayer

Tech Tamer

9:55am PDT

TechTapas: Scanning People in 3D

In this session, we’ll discuss the state of 3D scanning applications in academia and beyond. 3D scanning has become an integral tool to fields ranging from archaeology, VR, and even self-driving cars. And, as the title of this session suggests, we’ll discuss and perform what it means to “scan people” in 3D.

Speakers

Justin Counts

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Wednesday May 16, 2018 9:55am - 10:15am PDT
Geary

What's Next?

10:30am PDT

Hands-on Course Design in Moodle

Become familiar with the framework of a Moodle course, and learn how to turn your current teaching strategies and course outcomes into an effective Moodle course page. Please click through to the moodle page for this session to get started!

Speakers

Esme Miller

Patti Palczewska

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Wednesday May 16, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Dubach Mac

Core Strengths

10:30am PDT

Finding and Using Map Data & Historical Maps

Need help finding GIS data and/or historical maps for your GIS project? During this session, Watzek Librarians will guide you through various resources for finding these resources.

Speakers

Parvaneh Abbaspour

Science & Data Services Librarian, Lewis & Clark College

Mark Dahl

Director of the Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College

Wednesday May 16, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Dubach PC

Maps and More!

10:30am PDT

Teacher Cloning

Have you wished you could “clone” yourself so you can do more with class time? One way to do this is record a lesson so it’s available online to your students for 24x7 access. In this hands-on session bring a lecture or your lesson idea and walk away with your very own clone!

Speakers

Miranda Carney-Morris

Director of Educational Technology, Lewis & Clark College - IT/Educational Technology

Justin Counts

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Wednesday May 16, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Thayer

Tech Tamer

10:30am PDT

Why Digital Literacy Matters

JISC defines digital literacies as “those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society.” We’ll look at what kind of capabilities that might include and examine what that means in the context of Lewis & Clark—both for our students and for ourselves.

Speakers

Julio Appling

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Elizabeth Young

Enterprise Applications Developer/Administrator, Lewis & Clark College

Wednesday May 16, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Monteith

What's Next?

11:45am PDT

Lunch

south of the border buffet
- chicken tinga
- pinto beans
- cilantro lime rice
- fajita-style vegetables with mushrooms
- mixed green salad with citrus vinaigrette
- tomatoes, sour cream, shredded cheddar, fresh salsa
- house-made tortilla chips & flour tortillas

Wednesday May 16, 2018 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Council Chamber

Food

12:45pm PDT

Student Engagement: In the Classroom, Beyond the Classroom, and Beyond the Campus

What does it mean to be an engaged student? How do we encourage engagement with the subjects they’re learning, the discussions in the classroom (and online), the larger L&C community, the Portland community and the world?

Speakers

Patti Palczewska

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Elizabeth Young

Enterprise Applications Developer/Administrator, Lewis & Clark College

Wednesday May 16, 2018 12:45pm - 2:00pm PDT
Council Chamber

General Session

2:00pm PDT

Individual Work Time

Work on your own or by appointment with dedicated technical support.

Wednesday May 16, 2018 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Dubach PC

Maps and More!

8:30am PDT

Breakfast

healthy start
- greek yogurt with house-made granola
- sliced fresh fruit platter
- orange juice, caffè umbria coffee, and stash teas

Thursday May 17, 2018 8:30am - 9:00am PDT
Council Chamber

Food

9:00am PDT

Teaching with Images

If you teach with images (or would like to do more in this area), this session is for you. We'll cover common issues, including finding images, managing content, copyright, etc.! Come ready to get some hands-on experience, gain tips, and share ideas with colleagues!

Speakers

Erica Jensen

Research & Instruction Librarian, Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College

Thursday May 17, 2018 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Dubach Mac

Core Strengths

9:00am PDT

Collecting & Mapping Data Part 1: Collection

During this session, participants will use mobile devices to collect field data around campus using Survey123. Bring a mobile device if you can!

Speakers

Parvaneh Abbaspour

Science & Data Services Librarian, Lewis & Clark College

Jeremy McWillliams

Digital Services Coordinator, Lewis & Clark College

Programming, LAMP stack stuff, Omeka, Wordpress.

Thursday May 17, 2018 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Dubach PC

Maps and More!

9:00am PDT

Where Should I Store My Stuff?

In this session we’ll look at different storage options available to you at Lewis & Clark and talk through considerations such as redundancy (backup), collaboration, size, security, and access to help you stay organized and keep your mission-critical data safe.

Speakers

Julio Appling

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Thursday May 17, 2018 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Monteith

Tech Tamer

9:00am PDT

Classroom of Tomorrow

Join us in this session for a quick tour through Apps and Classroom Tech currently making a splash with an eye for the potential of emerging and popular technology to enhance the learning experience of our students.

Speakers

Miranda Carney-Morris

Director of Educational Technology, Lewis & Clark College - IT/Educational Technology

Justin Counts

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Patti Palczewska

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Thursday May 17, 2018 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Thayer

What's Next?

10:30am PDT

Digging into Moodle Gradebook

The Moodle Gradebook has many features that allow instructors to efficiently track students’ and provide private student feedback. In this session we’ll go through the steps of setting up a new gradebook including setting up letter grade scale and aggregation (calculation) methods, creating gradebook items and category structure, entering grades and feedback for students and exporting and importing grades.

Speakers

Julio Appling

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Thursday May 17, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Dubach Mac

Core Strengths

10:30am PDT

Collecting & Mapping Data Part 2: Importing & Mapping

Using the data collected in session 1, we’ll explore ways to use the survey data for presenting with ArcGIS Online tools.

Speakers

Parvaneh Abbaspour

Science & Data Services Librarian, Lewis & Clark College

Jeremy McWillliams

Digital Services Coordinator, Lewis & Clark College

Programming, LAMP stack stuff, Omeka, Wordpress.

Thursday May 17, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Dubach PC

Maps and More!

10:30am PDT

Transforming Group Work into Group Werk!

Research shows that group work has many benefits, however, the effort in planning and organising effective group activities can be time consuming and difficult. While there is no single best approach or assessment strategy for group work, in this session we’ll discuss strategies and tools that can aid with organization and help students develop effective group work skills.

Speakers

Miranda Carney-Morris

Director of Educational Technology, Lewis & Clark College - IT/Educational Technology

Elizabeth Young

Enterprise Applications Developer/Administrator, Lewis & Clark College

Thursday May 17, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Monteith

Tech Tamer

10:30am PDT

AR Poster Creation Workshop

Augmented Reality presents the opportunity to enrich, with the help of a smartphone, just about any event, item, or person we come into contact everyday; Partly terrifying, but another part exhilarating. We’re going to embrace the exhilarating by creating an academic presentation poster that utilizes AR to provide access to more information than could be conveyed soley by the print on a poster.

Speakers

Justin Counts

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Thursday May 17, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Thayer

What's Next?

11:45am PDT

Lunch

the deluxe sandwich
- turkey banh mi w/cucumber, carrot, cilantro, jalapeño, sriracha aioli
- ham gruyere w/roasted apple, thyme aioli, whole grain mustard
- beet & chevre w/arugula, goat cheese, and roasted beet

Thursday May 17, 2018 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Council Chamber

Food

12:45pm PDT

ArcGIS & StoryMaps Show & Tell

StoryMaps is a free platform for creating websites often centered (but not always) around a geographic narrative. During the past spring semester, a number of faculty members at Lewis & Clark created assignments requiring students to use StoryMaps. In this session, four faculty members will discuss their assignments, demonstrate selected student work, and discuss pros and cons of using StoryMaps.

Panel includes Melanie Kohnen (Rhetoric and Media Studies), Sarah Warner (Sociology), Tamily Weissman-Unni (Biology), and Elliott Young (History).

Thursday May 17, 2018 12:45pm - 2:00pm PDT
Council Chamber

General Session

8:30am PDT

Breakfast

continental breakfast
- fresh sliced fruit
- assorted breakfast pastries
-orange juice, caffè umbria coffee, and stash teas

Friday May 18, 2018 8:30am - 9:30am PDT
Council Chamber

Food

9:00am PDT

TechTapas: Zoom

Zoom is a complete cloud-based videoconferencing solution that allows faculty and staff to quickly and easily connect through almost any device with an internet connection - PC, Mac, Android, iOS, and more. Get a L&C Zoom Pro account which allows you to hold meetings with no time limits with up to 50 participants, as well as the ability to share screens and videos, and record meetings for later viewing. Come learn how Zoom can help you better connect with individuals across the world, across town, or just across campus.

Speakers

Patti Palczewska

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Friday May 18, 2018 9:00am - 9:25am PDT
Monteith

Core Strengths

9:00am PDT

TechTapas: GeoCaching

Learn about geocaching, and how it can be used in academia.

Speakers

Parvaneh Abbaspour

Science & Data Services Librarian, Lewis & Clark College

Jeremy McWillliams

Digital Services Coordinator, Lewis & Clark College

Programming, LAMP stack stuff, Omeka, Wordpress.

Miranda Wood

Crime Analyst, Portland Police Bureau

Friday May 18, 2018 9:00am - 9:25am PDT
Dubach PC

Maps and More!

9:00am PDT

TechTapas: Copyright Law & Fair Use

What types of materials are okay to post to Moodle or a course website? We’ll review LC’s policies on copyright, perform fair use analyses of a variety of text and video resources, and discuss options for when a resource falls outside the bounds of fair use.

Speakers

Jen Jacobs

Head of Access Services, Lewis & Clark College

Friday May 18, 2018 9:00am - 9:25am PDT
Dubach Mac

Tech Tamer

9:00am PDT

TechTapas: Digital Assistants in Education

Alexa, what is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? Alexa, how will you change the future of education?

Speakers

Elizabeth Young

Enterprise Applications Developer/Administrator, Lewis & Clark College

Friday May 18, 2018 9:00am - 9:25am PDT
Thayer

What's Next?

9:30am PDT

TechTapas: Advanced Forums

Moodlerooms Forums, a new alternative to standard Moodle forums. Moodleroom forums are designed to increase engagement and ease of use by improving mobile experience, an option to show recent posts on the course Moodle page, and optional private replies. Faculty can allow anonymous posting as well. Drop on in for this quick overview, and walk out feeling newly Moodle-empowered!

Speakers

Miranda Carney-Morris

Director of Educational Technology, Lewis & Clark College - IT/Educational Technology

Friday May 18, 2018 9:30am - 9:50am PDT
Monteith

Core Strengths

9:30am PDT

TechTapas: Advanced Presenting & Sharing GIS (part 1)

Learn about the advanced analysis functions that come with turning your web map into a web application.

Speakers

Miranda Wood

Crime Analyst, Portland Police Bureau

Friday May 18, 2018 9:30am - 9:50am PDT
Dubach PC

Maps and More!

9:30am PDT

TechTapas: TimeLine JS

TimeLine JS is a tool for creating multimedia timelines using Google Spreadsheets as a data source. In this session, you’ll learn how to create a timeline and deploy it to an external site (Google Sites, Story Maps, etc.).

Speakers

Jeremy McWillliams

Digital Services Coordinator, Lewis & Clark College

Programming, LAMP stack stuff, Omeka, Wordpress.

Friday May 18, 2018 9:30am - 9:50am PDT
Dubach Mac

Tech Tamer

9:30am PDT

TechTapas: Robot Writers

Advances in Artificial Intelligence have produced robots that can write ad copy and marketing emails indistinguishable from human writing. How long until an enterprising person harnesses the power of academic papers available on the internet to start selling robot written papers to students at a fraction of the cost? (Probably already.) We’ll take a look at what robot writers are now and what they soon will be, and see some examples of their narrative powers at work!

Speakers

Elizabeth Young

Enterprise Applications Developer/Administrator, Lewis & Clark College

Friday May 18, 2018 9:30am - 9:50am PDT
Thayer

What's Next?

9:55am PDT

TechTapas: Zotero

Come for a quick demo of Zotero - a free and full featured reference manager you and your students can use to collect, organize, share and cite sources you and your students find online during your research. Advanced features include adding notes, images, web page snapshots and automatic download of PDFs.

Speakers

Miranda Carney-Morris

Director of Educational Technology, Lewis & Clark College - IT/Educational Technology

Friday May 18, 2018 9:55am - 10:15am PDT
Monteith

Core Strengths

9:55am PDT

TechTapas: Advanced Presenting & Sharing GIS (part 2)

Apply what you learned in part 1, or use some provided examples.

Speakers

Miranda Wood

Crime Analyst, Portland Police Bureau

Friday May 18, 2018 9:55am - 10:15am PDT
Dubach PC

Maps and More!

9:55am PDT

TechTapas: Moodle User Tours

Have you ever been confused about where to find a certain Moodle section? Have you ever looked at a button on a Moodle page and thought “What does that do?” Nervous about students not knowing where certain activities or resources are located? Moodle now offers custom “tutorials” for Moodle pages through its new User Tour feature. In this session, we’ll explore what a User Tour can do, how it could be helpful to you and your students, and identify some User Tours to create for the upcoming year.

Speakers

Patti Palczewska

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Friday May 18, 2018 9:55am - 10:15am PDT
Dubach Mac

Tech Tamer

9:55am PDT

TechTapas: Affective Computing

As EQ is to IQ, Affective Computing is to Artificial Intelligence. Systems and devices that can recognize and have an effect on the emotional response of humans AND simulate emotional response in themselves are already in development. What does this mean for us?

Speakers

Elizabeth Young

Enterprise Applications Developer/Administrator, Lewis & Clark College

Friday May 18, 2018 9:55am - 10:15am PDT
Thayer

What's Next?

10:30am PDT

Adobe Spark

Adobe Spark is a suite of free tools that enable quick, easy assembly of videos, flyers and web pages. Great for creating short instructional content, it may also be used by students as an alternate way of completing an assignment.

Speakers

Justin Counts

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Friday May 18, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Dubach Mac

Core Strengths

10:30am PDT

Creating Dashboards in ArcGIS Online

A dashboard is a view of geographic information that helps you monitor events or activities. Dashboards are designed to display multiple visualizations that work together on a single screen. They offer a comprehensive and engaging view of your data to provide key insight for at-a-glance decision making. In this session, we’ll look at dashboard components and create one from scratch.

Speakers

Miranda Wood

Crime Analyst, Portland Police Bureau

Friday May 18, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Dubach PC

Maps and More!

10:30am PDT

Data Visualization

Data visualizations are everywhere! But how to distinguish the meaningful from the flashy? This workshop will take you back to the basics and focus on the nuts and bolts of data-presentation standbys: charts, graphs and tables. It’s akin to learning the grammar of presenting data. But once mastered, you will have a framework for evaluating almost any visualization you encounter (no matter how flashy). Because first Faulkner had to master grammar, before he could write a four-page long sentence that worked.

Speakers

Parvaneh Abbaspour

Science & Data Services Librarian, Lewis & Clark College

Julio Appling

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Friday May 18, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Thayer

Tech Tamer

10:30am PDT

Open Educational Resources

Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing. What does this mean, how can you use open educational resources, and what does a future with open educational resources look like?

Speakers

Jen Jacobs

Head of Access Services, Lewis & Clark College

Patti Palczewska

Educational Technologist, Lewis & Clark College

Friday May 18, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Monteith

What's Next?

11:45am PDT

Lunch & FTI Wrap-Up

Join us in the IT Studio in the basement of the Watzek Library (next to the Service Desk) for our annual FTI Pizza Party!

Friday May 18, 2018 11:45am - 2:00pm PDT
IT Studio

Food