FIT Tech Day 2009

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10:15 to 11:15 Break Out Session A
Adjunct Advocate@ FIT This presentation outlines the efforts of FIT’s Center for Excellence in Teaching to reach adjunct faculty at their convenience with a technologically innovative, online professional resource. Part-timers represent the greatest number of teaching faculty in America today. This project aims to develop an online community of teaching practice and positively influence the quality of instruction we bring to students. Designed by the Center for Excellence in Teaching, as part of FIT’s overall Faculty Development Program, the community space is linked to other programs and practical resources both on and off campus. Elaine Maldonado Associate Professor Director of Faculty Development and CET, FIT
*Apparel 3D Simulation* This presentation is for any company large or small who has used or is thinking about implementing a software solution. Soon the days of paper patterns and French curves will be gone and the only way to keep up with the pace of the industry is to know, use and share these technologies worldwide. With so many fixed costs in the industry technology is the best way to streamline costs, especially in difficult economic times. The presentation will also cover some of the exciting new and continuing projects that OptiTex has been involved with including the second season of Tim Gunn's "Guide To Style"and a new partnership with Nvidia; both of these are putting our 3D technology into the homes of millions of Americans and creating many options for possible future employment. Yoram Burg, OptiTex USA Inc.
Data Encryption and Archiving Portable storage devices are cheap and easy to use, so is stealing your data when your portable storage falls in the wrong hands. Learn how to secure your data without sacrificing ease of use. Also learn how to setup off-site backup. Olufemi Ariyo, Instructional Coordinator, Academic Computing FIT
Web Content Management at FIT Open Text, a leader in enterprise content management, helps universities create, manage and deliver content that increases enrollment, supports learning, builds community and augments donation drives. FIT selected Open Text Web Solutions (formerly known as RedDot) as their Web Content Management System to coincide with a complete redesign of their public-facing www.fitnyc.edu website, as well as to manage the content across more than 30 active sub-domains. The goal of the project was to distribute the authoring responsibility through the institution to both skilled and unskilled end-users, decrease publishing turn-around time, enhance efficiency for maintaining centrally published content, and enforce brand and style across pages and sites. During this presentation, we will demonstrate the functionality purchased by FIT including an easy-to-use editorial interface, powerful and flexible workflow approvals, content reuse from a central repository, and templates that separate and enforce content and formatting. Jay Canete and Tucker Elliot, Open Text Web Solutions
Storyboarding: A truly new graphics organizer that will sell your brands’ creative vision Lectra, the #1 technology provider to the fashion industry, will host this session and discuss the use of new technology that allows for the creation, organization, modification, replication and communication of intelligent objects in the design process. Allowing designers to work and communicate in their graphical and visual world will streamline the creative process as well as ensure the best possible end product is conceptualized early in the process in order to meet the extreme demands that the consumer has placed on the retailers and brands to deliver more product, more frequently. Jill M. Simmons, Director Design Solutions Business Development
11:30 to 12:30 Breakout Session B
Adobe Lightroom Adobe Lightroom has features that make the submission, evaluation, and presentation of digital images a rich learning experience. Come workshop the basic functions of Lightroom that will take the place of learning basic darkroom skills. Lightroom can give students control over the basic image qualities: brightness, contrast, color, etc, without the complicated and potentially confusing tools available in Photoshop. More importantly, Lightroom’s organizational features provide an early introduction to the critical concepts of file naming conventions and metadata. Learn about Lightroom's slideshow feature and how an instructor can display student work with in a slideshow format with selected metadata displayed on the screen below the images. The instructor can demonstrate the direct relationship between the way an image looks, it’s histogram, and the camera settings used to create the image. The metadata available from digital cameras is complex: shutter speed, aperture, iso, focal length (particularly important with zoom lenses), and time of day. Brad Paris Assistant Professor of Photography, FIT Rochester Institute of Technology Photographer
Angel Course Strategies A look at three distinctly different course strategies and how each instructor uses the Angel LMS to facilitate an effective teaching environment. Moderated by Jeffrey Riman this panel will discuss their unique solutions in teaching: Fully Online courses where all contact is contained within the course management environment. Hybrid Courses that combine fully online functionality with periodic face to face classes. Face to face courses the use Angel to compliment the course offering. In this session participants will view examples of actual courses and the related teaching strategies followed by a question and answer period. Jeffrey Riman Instructional Designer, Center for Excellence in Teaching, FIT
Confessions of an Angel User: Navigating Your Way through the Good, the Bad, and the Just Plain Confusing. In this lecture you will learn how to use different Angel tools to energize the course content, feed students’ appetite, and bridge technology gaps in an F2F or online environment. Carmita Sanchez-Fong
Simulation Based Learning This presentation will focus upon using immersive and simulation based learning as a dynamic bridge between classroom instruction and real life experience. New technologies have greatly enhanced simulation-based learning, in which the learner is placed into a scenario and is directly responsible for the changes that occur as a result of their decisions. Professor Bess will talk about his pioneering efforts and research into the use of simulation technology for learning and assessments. Leonard Bess Assistant Professor Fashion Design, FIT
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2:00 to 3:30 Breakout Session C
Acrobat 9 PDF in Depth Acrobat 9 Professional's PDF Portfolio is an exciting and powerful new way to bring the power of PDF and other digital files together in a delivery package that leverages the power of Acrobat, rich media, and Flash. In this 90 minute seminar course come learn how you can create and deliver a PDF portfolio from a variety of files to anyone and for just about any purpose. You will learn how easy it is to produce compelling PDF portfolios, improve presentation and collaboration workflows, and how to customize interaction to deliver the right set of materials for the right purpose. Steve Adler, Acrobat Specialist for Education
Building HTML Pages in Angel for Course Content This past semester Brian has embarked on a project to better organize the content he uses for his classes. In the past, he had been using the Angel course management system as a basic suppository for .pdf handouts, readings and links to pertinent information, but then decided to try and use the system in a more complete way. Although this endeavor includes the attendance manager and gradebook, his major challenge has been building HTML course outlines as the semester moves forward. These pages are meant to present the student with the day’s course content as the class is happening, and then as an online resource to use as reference after they have left the room. He uses the pages directly as the class outline, so they are interfacing with the presented material as he am teaching it. He hopes for an integration between the act of learning in the classroom, and the necessity of recalling information and reference after the student’s leave the classroom. These pages are meant as a one-stop source, where they can get links to their assignments, they can see galleries of all the work the class has done so far, images, videos and links to reference materials and artists, video tutorials of topics covered in class, announcements and schedules. Brian Emery Assistant Professor of Photography, FIT Director of Digital Operations, iPrint inc.
Developing Knit Fabrics on Stoll's M1 CAD system As flat-bed knitting machinery becomes increasingly sophisticated, so have the fabric and garment constructions which can be produced on them. Come for an hour-long tour and demonstration of the newest knitting technology in our lab at FIT. See how we use the Stoll M1 CAD systems in the classroom as a teaching tool, helping students design and develop fabrics - from the very basic to the extremely complex - and then watch as these designs are transferred and knit down on the Stoll CMS Knit-and-Wear machines. Ann Denton Assistant Professor of Textile Development & Marketing, FIT
Look, Listen, Speak, Draw: VOICETHREAD Collaborations Spark Ideas (Workshop) VoiceThread webware (http://www.voicethread.com) provides a multimedia environment for looking, listening, speaking, drawing and collaborating in the development of creative online “conversations” around still or video images. In Fall 2008, I teamed up with James Pearce (TDT) and we launched a new type of collaborative project, based on VoiceThread webware. Students in my Pre-Columbian Art and Civilization class developed online “conversations” around images of museum objects, selected by the students themselves, from The American Museum of Natural History. Verbal comments were recorded in audio, video or typed format, while a drawing function enabled users to interact directly with the visual material. Users also took advantage of the opportunity to incorporate personal travel photographs, documentary videos, and url links to content on external websites, engaging with the material in creative ways. “How we teach — and in some cases what we teach — is out of sync with the way students communicate and learn.” This comment, from a recent article in the Chronicle for Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3561/guest-blogger-finding-new-models-to-support-teaching-with-technology), struck a chord because it seems to me that the success of our Fall 2008 VoiceThread project has to do with the fact that it was in sync with how students communicate and learn—and it brought out the best in them. Moreover, as I got in sync with how students communicate and learn, I began to think in profoundly differently ways about how I teach, what I teach, and what counts as knowledge production. The nexus of VoiceThread is simple, accessible and versatile, with the potential to reshape teaching and learning across the curriculum, and in accord with the imagination of diverse departments. Janice Robertson Instructor of Art History, FIT & James Pearce Digital Media Coordinator Technology Development Team
Pod Casting with Garage Band Podcasting has become the communication of choice for many corporations, businesses and hobbyists. It is a convenient and economical way to stay connected for both the creators and their listeners. Getting started requires only a few simple investments and there are free hosting services that provide the access needed. In this presentation Michael will talk about the basic planning structure of a podcast and participants will have a hands-on opportunity to produce a podcast from scratch and publish it on the spot! Michael Cokkinos Associate Professor of Advertising and Marketing Department, FIT
Web PDM Training Workshop This WebPDM Training Workshop will be a hands on "condensed" training session on Gerber's WebPDM program. In this hands-on crash course in WebPDM participants will log on to the system, navigate through WebPDM folders and organizational hierarchy to get a sense of how the system is used in industry. Participants will be able to create folders, access databases and share information as users in the industry would. The workshop will explore how the WebPDM system manages all the data related to product development through its folder summary pages, spec sheets, check lists, construction details pages, and history notes. This will not be a demonstration of WebPDM, but a user friendly interactive workshop. Participants will walk a way with a hands on "working knowledge" of the system. The workshop will include a professional USERS MANUAL, designed specifically for this forum. Lori Massaro Professor, Web PDM FIT