July 24: Tech Hacks from the Toolshed

“Can you repeat that?”: Bite-sized lessons with Premiere Rush

Diana Keeler

Whether you’re teaching your Fall course remotely or you want to post a recap from class, Adobe's intuitive editing tool, Premiere Rush, is a fantastic way to make quick videos of important lesson topics. In this workshop, we’ll go over best practices for keeping your videos short, punchy and engaging while limiting your out-of-the-classroom workload. And who doesn't want that? Instead of watching a recording of a three-hour lecture, let your students see a quick video with options to pause and replay the important stuff as many times as they need. Form an orderly queue, everyone - this one's popular!

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Alexa, What Can I Learn at Summer Camp?

Ian Freed, Co-Founder and CEO at Bamboo Learning, & John Rome, Deputy Chief Info Officer, Data Stewardship, Augmented Analytics & BI, Arizona State University & Alexa 

This session will showcase some of the groundbreaking voice-based learning by Bamboo Learning and general discussion around voice technology in education with Ian Freed, Bamboo's co-founder and CEO. Before starting Bamboo, Ian served as Technology Adviser to Amazon's Jeff Bezos and led the Amazon Alexa/Echo business from inception (not a bad resume, huh?). Additionally, Ian might have some interesting campfire stories to share during the session. A special guest is scheduled to join who will take questions and may even sing a campfire song. Hope you can join.

AI Applications – From the Networking Edge to Routing Core

Christian Gilby, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Mist Systems, a Juniper Company

There is a lot of hype when it comes to Artificial Intelligence. Christian Gilby will take you through the current state of AI as applied to networking.  Leveraging the groundbreaking technology from Mist Systems you will get to see how AI is applied to access points, enterprise switches, security firewall devices, and routing.   He will also show a demonstration of the “art of the possible” in using AI to quickly diagnose issues that used to take a lot of time to solve as well as how a “Microservices architecture” in the cloud will allow a host of new services to be created to dramatically improve the user experience.

Get on the same page: Bring ideas to life in a single space with Dropbox Paper

Alex Rountree, Industry Principle, EDU

Dropbox Paper is a collaborative workspace where students, faculty, researchers, and staff can coordinate projects and communicate around content.

In this fun interactive workshop, you will learn how paper offers real-time co-editing features right alongside annotations, task lists, timelines, and live previews of images, spreadsheets, PDFs, and more.

You will see how teams use Paper to coordinate projects, take notes and brainstorm, and review and share work in one centralized source of truth.

I’m Overwhelmed!: How We Help Online Learners Manage their Reading and Research in Online Classes

Jenae Cohn, Academic Technology Specialist, Stanford University & Wilson Tsu, Founder, PowerNotes

In online learning environments, students are navigating a lot of information. From the infrastructure of the online class itself to the content that students are asked to read, we need to acknowledge the importance of supporting students in adjusting to key differences involved in reading and researching online. Even under face-to-face teaching circumstances, students often feel overwhelmed when trying to find information from their online research, but that feeling can be compounded as we move to fully remote environments and all information that students need to learn must be navigated online. What are some ways to reduce these feelings of being overwhelmed? And how do we help students not only feel like their reading and research is more manageable, but also feel like they’re mastering and engaging with new concepts? In this session, we will engage in a conversation about helping online learners manage their reading and research in online classes. We will explore these ideas in the context of PowerNotes, a browser-based tool that helps students to curate material from across the Web and become stronger readers and researchers.

Through the Looking Glass: Creating AR Stories for the Future 

Emory Craig, ASU ShapingEDU Innovator in Residence (2019-20), Co-founder of Digital Bodies & Maya Georgieva, ASU ShapingEDU Innovator in Residence (2019-20), Co-founder of Digital Bodies, and Director of Digital Learning and XReality Center at the New School

"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"  - Alice in Wonderland 

In an age of a global pandemic and social upheaval where we must redefine the concept of "normal," how can we use emerging technologies to collectively gather our courage, creativity, and resilience to tell stories and share new immersive experiences? Join us for a campfire adventure to design and send an AR postcard about the future. We will embrace speculative design, social impact, and open creativity as we learn, create, and share stories with Augmented Reality. Together, we will create new forms of storytelling as portals about our collective future. As Alice said, "It's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then."

The Future of Internet-Scale Networking and Implications for Learning Technologies & Research Networks

Christian Martin, AVP, Customer Engineering

The internet has evolved to embrace cloud-like architectures and cloud principles.  New networks such as Internet2 and regional educational networks will have an enormous impact on learning technologies that will shape the student experience of the future; examples include Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).  These networks will also support advanced collaboration and research needs within a single organization and across multiple domains.  This session will discuss the implications for educational institutions to fully participate in a cloud-like future at Internet Scale and Internet speeds.