Concurrent Workshop Sessions

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[Keynote Q&A]
Computers are not catalysts... maybe they are speed bumps?

Speaker:

Scott Pobiner
Director, BBA Program & Assistant Professor of Information, Design and Management
Parsons The New School for Design

Description:

Education and technology are inextricably linked. When we introduce a new tool, technology, method, or medium into a learning environment, we can no longer accept the status quo. Doing so would commit us to failure by not realizing the potential of the new device or failure because we were somehow unable to incorporate it into our own practices. Instead, we must begin to investigate how our methods, practices, and roles must change in order to uncover the real potential of these new devices in our academies. Join us as we explore the opportunities and challenges and up the ante.

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[Visionary]
Combining Video Media with Web Pages for Instruction

Speaker:

David B. Sher Associate Professor, Nassau Community College/SUNY
Elizabeth R. Sher
 

Description:

By presenting material on video, students receive multimodal instruction. Video pages can be used to construct nonlinear instructional materials or adaptive tests. This presentation will examine digital video possibilities for the classroom and the workshop discussion will explore what you need to know.

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[Visionary]
Dream Machines-New Aesthetics in the Digital Age

Speaker:

Chinjuz (CJ) Yeh
Assistant Professor, Communication Design, Fashion Institute of Technology

Description:

This two-part presentation will explore the differences between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants and how we can help digital natives redefine aesthetics and enjoy new freedoms through computer. The second part introduces Digital Nostalgia, a contemporary art practice involving the subversion of consumer technology. Some of the most prominent digital artists of today will be examined: JODI, Paul Slocum, Alex Galloway and Cory Arcange. Chiptune will also be covered in this session.

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[Visionary]
Marketing Automation

Speaker:

Nick Patrissi
Industry Relations Manager, Corporate Solutions Group
Eastman Kodak Company

Description:

This session will provide an overview/preview of emerging software tools for the design, production and execution of marketing materials and will  promote a better understanding of today's marketing automation tools.

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[Interdisciplinary]
Photo Albums on a Wiki

Speaker:

Sara Rofofsky Marcus
Adjunct Assistant Professor, CUNY Queensborough Community College

Description:

This session explores the use of a Wiki to create a visual, collaborative, online album. Wikis are highly collaborative by nature. Participants will brainstorm, gather subject expertise and work together to present as a single entity.

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[Retro]
Teaching and Learning Television Production

Speaker:

Michael Cokkinos
Associate Professor, Advertising & Marketing Communications
Fashion Institute of Technology

Description:

This session, conducted by faculty and students, will examine the role of television production in Advertising, Marketing and Communication and the many elements that must come together in order to produce a successful show.

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[Interdisciplinary]
Apple Innovations

Speaker:

Lester Ray
Ontological Engineer, Apple

Description:

This session will examine the tools needed to achieve 21st century skills. Specifically, the pedagogical uses of podcasting will be examined through discussion and hands-on experience.

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[Visionary]
Design Automation in the Digital Age

Speaker:

Ron Malloy Global Vice President,
Sales and Business Strategy Corporate Solutions Group
Eastman Kodak Company

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[Visionary]
Integrating Visual Language and Media

Speaker:

Michele Washington Assistant Professor
& Bil Donovan Adjunct Faculty
Fashion Institute of Technology

Description:

Two instructors will share various methods for using iPods in the classroom that challenge students to experiment with images, symbols and sound. Each of their classes worked independently, merging both iMovies and garageband to create interactive projects which could easily be posted on iTunes or youTube.com. The instructors will walk you through several examples of student work, ranging from illustration to graphic design.

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[Interdisciplinary]
New Concepts that Involve Emerging Technologies

Speaker:

Bonnie Blake
Director, New York University MA Program, New York University  

Description:

A panel discussion: The changing landscape of media requires that our students learn how to be innovative, manage and understand the capabilities of new and emerging technologies. They need to become critical thinkers and apply their knowledge across diverse media, to prepare for new high growth industry opportunities.

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[Interdisciplinary]
Teaching a Shift in Attitude: Integrating Sustainability into a Core Curriculum

Speaker:

Alissa de Wit-Paul
Assistant Professor, Buffalo State College/SUNY

Description:

The present and future of green design education with student examples and project analysis. How we as educators do this becomes a design challenge in and of itself.

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[Collaboration]
Web-based Collaboration with Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional

Speaker:

Tim Plumer
Senior Solutions Engineer, N.A. Education Sales
Adobe Systems, Inc.

Description:

Come learn how to collaborate using web technologies. Whether you need to meet with a colleague or present to 1,000 people in an audience, there is a way to engage your audience and keep them in front of the computer for the entire session. If you have a laptop, bring it along and you can participate in real-time.

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[Interdisciplinary]
Integrating Digital Tools into the Learning Environment*This session will begin a bit earlier than other Session #3 events, at 2:15.

Speaker:

Lester Ray Ontological Engineer, Apple
 

Description:

Lifelong learning and versatility are replacing lifetime employment and static skill sets. Reflecting on these dramatic changes, schools too are evolving. This presentation by Apple educator Lester Ray will examine new strategies and the latest tools to support innovation.

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[Retro/Sensory]
Blending High Tech and Low Tech, a Security Blanket for All!

Speaker:

Joyce Chizick
Adjunct Faculty
Genesee Community College, SUNY

Description:

Working in the field of textiles has become an increasing challenge. By incorporating video clips, 'youtube' excerpts, magazine and newspaper clippings into PowerPoint presentations, students become engaged and interested. Combining new technology with older approaches has the feel of a security blanket for many and enables those advanced in the use of technology to expand and develop their skills.

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[Collaborative/Interdisciplinary/Visionary]
Many Disciplines, One Room:
Collaboration Across the Arts

Speaker:

Christopher Watts
Director of the Center for Arts & Technology, St. Lawrence University

Description:

In this session, the presenter will discuss an initiative at St. Lawrence University that promotes interdisciplinary opportunities for students through design technology. This model has several moving parts and each will be examined in turn: organization and shared facilities; reconciling departmental, divisional and institutional needs and wants; and a course that was designed to get the ball rolling.

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[Visionary]
Museo: Mission and Vision

Speaker:

David Shapiro
Adjunct Faculty of History of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology

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[Collaborative]
Teaching American History Through the Eye of the Needle

Speaker:

Daniel Levinson Wilk Assistant Professor, FIT
Daniel Katz, Kim Hewitt, Joseph Garner Empire State College Faculty

Description:

This session demonstrates a collaborative, multimedia project that enables faculty to share resources in a common web-space. Presenters will demonstrate experimental teaching/learning materials  related to the history of fashion and garments.

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[Visionary/Sensory]
Visual Responses to Online Learning

Speaker:

Betty Wilde-Biasiny
Assistant Professor, SUNY Empire State College

Description:

Student projects will be presented, along with faculty commentary, on how students learn through visual response. This presentation will examine teaching practice in relationship to these ideas and to describe in depth the relationship of these ideas to the online course, Twentieth Century Art History: The Age of Pluralism.

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[Visionary]
A look at MIT Open Course Ware

Speaker:

Tamara Cupples
Executive Director/Online Learning and Academic Technology
Fashion Institute of Technology

Description:

FIT's new Executive Director of Distance Learning, previously with MIT, will give an overview of MIT's Open Course Ware program and discuss the lessons learned in the implementation of this ground breaking program.

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[Interdisciplinary]
Fashion Illustration:
Creating a Comic Book Style Lesson on Fashion History/Illustration

Speaker:

Rachael Olubukola Afolabi
Ed.D Candidate, Walden University

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[Collaborative]
Sparking Innovative Teaching:
A Collaboration to Promote Visual Resources

Speaker:

Greta Earnest Assistant Director of the FIT Library
Macie Hall Senior Instructional Designer
Donald Juedes Librarian for Art History
Mike Reese Associate Director of the Center for Educational Resources
Ann Woodward Visual Resources Curator, John Hopkins Univ.

Description:

This John Hopkins panel presentation will illustrate a model for intellectual collaboration that includes individuals from the library, the classroom, the technology department and center for teaching and learning.

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[Interdisciplinary]
News You Can Use!

Speaker:

Angela Kluwin
Education Manager, The New York Times

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[Visionary]
Trading Places

Speaker:

Melanie Reim
Chair, Illustration Department, Graduate Studies
Fashion Institute of Technology

Description:

Professor Reim once again turns the traditional tables as her students "teach the teachers" about the role of technology in teaching/learning in ways that are innovative and exciting. Activities will include on-site, as well as distance activities via live webinar.

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[Interdisciplinary]
Xythos' Document Management in Higher Education

Speaker:

Colleen Malloy
Regional Sales Director, Northeast Xythos Software, Inc.

Description:

Learn how academic institutions, including FIT, are using Xythos software to safely store and publish content, collaborate on projects and improve document centric administrative processes over the web.

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