F E B R UA RY 2 6, 2 0 2 1 9:00 am–4:00 pm
SYMPOSINAR
[sim-poh-zuh-nahr] 1. A virtual presentation that allows a speaker to present material to participants in different locations via the internet.
2. A conference or meeting at which several speakers discuss related topics before an audience.
3. A zero-cost, zero-commute gathering of creative educators trying to inspire students, stay highly caffeinated, and just remain afloat until tomorrow.
F EB R UA RY 2 6, 2 0 2 1 9:00 am–4:00 pm
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2021 SY M P OSI NARSymposinar P RES E N TAT I O N S A Nand D WO RK S H O P S 2021 AGDA_NC Spring Presentations Workshops Presentation
Speaker
Workshop
Speaker
Session One 9:00-9:50 Your Place in the Student Pipeline
Tyler Dockery Wake Technical CC
9:00-9:50 Student Recruitment Hope Carroll Lenoir CC
Session Two 10:00-10:50 8-Week Course Scheduling
Jennifer Fisher Fayetteville Technical CC
10:00-10:50 Portfolio in the
Julie Evans Wake Technical CC
Hope Carroll Lenoir CC
11:00-11:50 Staying Afloat
Jennifer Cobb, Catawba Valley CC Julie Evans, Wake Technical CC
Virtual Environment
Session Three 11:00-11:50 Get Started in UX: A Teacher's Guide
With Grading
Session Four 12:00-12:50 Lunch Bunch
Michael Lawson, Guilford Technical CC Carla Osborne, Wake Technical CC
Session Five 1:00-1:50 Presenting in the Age of Danielle Hennis COVID-19
1:00-1:50 Leading A Critical
Brittany Holleran Central Piedmont CC
Lindy Hues Central Piedmont CC
2:00-2:50 The Everything
Stacy Jarrell Pitt CC
Carla Osborne, Wake Technical CC
3:00-3:50 Helping Students
Tyler Dockery Wake Technical CC
Wake Technical CC
Thinking Exercise
Session Six 2:00-2:50 How to Train Your
Dragon Unicorn: The Rise of the Design Generalist
Bagel
Session Seven 3:00-3:50 Students Design for
Small Business Clients
Establish End Goals
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PRESENTATION
YOUR PLACE IN THE STUDENT PIPELINE Similar to looking at your student’s end goal, our students need connection with individuals for success, and knowing more about how we fit into their lives can allow us to help them on their way. In this presentation, we’ll focus on where our students are coming from and how to help them get started, how to encourage them along the way, and increase your role in that system.
S E S S I O N
ONE
9:00 am–9:50 am
(Choose one of the following:)
Tyler Dockery Wake Technical Community College twdockery@waketech.edu
WORKSHOP STUDENT RECRUITMENT Lost for ideas on how to recruit students to your program, especially in the middle of a pandemic? You have come to the right Zoom room! In this workshop we’ll cover how to market your program using social media, mailers, career fairs (virtual or F2F), how to connect with high schools and community, and much more. Bring your ideas to share with others and definitely bring something to take notes.
Hope Carroll Lenoir Community College mhcarroll05@lenoircc.edu
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PRESENTATION
8-WEEK COURSE SCHEDULING During this presentation, we will discuss the experience from Fayetteville Technical Community College in converting Advertising and Graphic Design courses to an 8-week scheduling format. In this session, we will examine impact on student performance, faculty satisfaction, and ability for students to complete prerequisite courses more quickly.
S E S S I O N
TWO
10:00 am–10:50 am (Choose one of the following:)
Jennifer Fisher Fayetteville Technical Community College fisherjl@faytechcc.edu
WORKSHOP PORTFOLIO IN THE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT This session reflects on how Wake Tech has pivoted in response to COVID-19 in regards to their GRD 280 Portfolio Design course. During this workshop, attendees are encouraged to bring student examples from their schools and share their own program’s successes (and challenges) as they’ve adapted their portfolio courses to the virtual environment.
Julie Evans Wake Technical Community College jcevans4@waketech.edu
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PRESENTATION
GET STARTED IN UX: A TEACHER’S GUIDE There is an increased demand for students to have User Experience (UX) skills especially as more companies expand their online capabilities. This presentation will provide an overview of what UX covers and how to get started teaching UX in any class from graphic design to multimedia. Attendees will leave with project examples to integrate into their classrooms.
S E S S I O N
THREE 11:00 am–11:50 am
(Choose one of the following:)
Hope Carroll Lenoir Community College mhcarroll05@lenoircc.edu
WORKSHOP STAYING AFLOAT WITH GRADING In this workshop, we will share tips and tricks to stay afloat when it comes to grading. From a Google doc with daily notes to program-wide rubrics to video feedback, there are small changes that you can make to help you provide feedback to your students while reclaiming your weekend! Attendees are encouraged to bring their own grading tips and tricks to share with the rest of the group.
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Julie Evans Wake Tech CC
Jennifer Cobb Catawba Valley CC
jcevans4@waketech.edu
jcobb@cvcc.edu
PRESENTATION THE LUNCH BUNCH
The best conversations always happen at lunch, right? During this session, grab your lunch and join us by Zoom. No agenda… just catching up and sharing semester stories.
S E S S I O N
FOUR
Michael Lawson Guilford Tech CC
Carla Osborne Wake Tech CC
mrlawson@gtcc.edu
crosborne@waketech.edu
12 noon–12:50 pm (Only one session)
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PRESENTATION
PRESENTING IN THE AGE OF COVID-19 The COVID-19 virtual world is here to stay for a while. Let’s make sure we’re planning our classes, meetings, and presentations so that they cater to our audiences and our message is heard. Come with questions, photos of your workspace (if you want feedback), and leave with tips to make your next virtual presentation a success.
S E S S I O N
FIVE 1:00 pm–1:50 pm
(Choose one of the following:)
Danielle Hennis Wake Technical Community College drhennis@waketech.edu
WORKSHOP LEADING A CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE How can we as instructors lead students through exercises that tap into critical thinking? Problem-solving and creativity are at the core of our discipline, but how can we teach students to put these key skills into practice on real-world projects? We will learn more about these opportunities, talk with students about the outcomes, create exercises for practicing these skills, and open the floor for dialogue.
Brittany Holleran Central Piedmont Community College brittany.holleran@cpcc.edu
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PRESENTATION
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON UNICORN: THE RISE OF THE DESIGN GENERALIST This presentation will discuss the skills designers of today AND tomorrow will need to remain competitive in the marketplace. We will also discuss the importance of learning to code and how it will prepare you and your students to acquire skills we don’t even know we need yet.
S E S S I O N
SIX
2:00 pm–2:50 pm (Choose one of the following:)
Lindy Hues Central Piedmont Community College lindy.hues@cpcc.edu
WORKSHOP THE EVERYTHING BAGEL Looking for a round table to discuss a topic not found in our other Symposinar workshops? Maybe you want to bounce an idea off of your peers, or share how you’re handling student retention during these unusual times. We’ve created this round table; to facilitate your questions, cover the unanticipated, and chat in this virtual coffee house with other like-minded educators.
Stacy Jarrell Pitt Community College sjarrell@email.pittcc.edu
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PRESENTATION
STUDENTS DESIGN FOR SMALL BUSINESS CLIENTS For three years, AGD students have partnered with Small Business Clients from the Entrepreneurship Initiatives programs at Wake Tech. Join Carla Osborne from Wake Tech to hear about how the process has evolved, lessons learned the hard way, and how the process has streamlined from introducing the students to groups to end-of-thesemester presentations.
S E S S I O N
SEVEN 3:00 pm–3:50 pm
(Choose one of the following:)
Carla Osborne Wake Technical Community College crosborne@waketech.edu
WORKSHOP HELPING STUDENTS ESTABLISH END GOALS We know where our students come from, but where are they going? What are their goals, and how can we help them achieve them? In this workshop, we will discuss discovering these items through dialogue and body language, as well as taking a critical look at our programs. Are we helping students as much as we can? What can we do TODAY to help them achieve their final goals?
Tyler Dockery Wake Technical Community College twdockery@waketech.edu
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