March 1st Schedule

• 12:30-12:45 - Registration and Welcome
  
  

• 12:45-12:55 - "Disco Date: Igniting Connections" with Kevin Shufford 

Get ready to groove and mingle in our Disco Date icebreaker! This activity will set your students' social scene ablaze as they spark connections with their peers. Whether they're chatting about their favorite movies, travel destinations, or furry friends, this activity promises to be a dynamic and exhilarating experience. So grab your dancing shoes and get ready to boogie through a whirlwind of engaging conversations!

• 12:55-1:05 - “‘Dancing Queen’ Meets ‘Le Freak’: I Added AI to An Assignment, and You Can Too” with Lynn Brysacz

Mixing up a routine with some new dance moves can be challenging, but it’s not impossible. Learn how to take an assignment and turn it into a richer experience by adding an element of AI use by students. Not only will students discuss the content, but they can start to critically examine the efficacy and ethics of using a generative AI tool in their scholarly work. This low stakes dabble into AI may reinvigorate the assignment, you, and your students. Let’s boogie!

• 1:05 - 1:15 Groovin' With Knapp with Tenisha Baca

Learning a new dance can be overwhelming for beginners if there are too many steps. The same could be said in the classroom. Learning concepts and theories with multiple steps can be overwhelming, especially to students who are new to college. Come and learn how music is being used in the classroom to help students to learn the ten steps in Knapp's Relational Stages so that they are not so overwhelmed by the concept. Come and groove with me.

• 1:15-1:25 'Staying Alive in the Classroom' with Nick Baker

How students can be successful with easy to follow guided notes using great disco fresh Canvas Studio

• 1:25-1:35 "Staying Alive in the World of AI: Adapting the Weekly Quiz" with Trish Lavigne

  • Many faculty allow for open-book, online assessment in the hopes that it will shift the focus from memorization to application and critical-thinking. Unfortunately, we have also experienced how "open-Internet" access can result in students using minimal effort to answer questions, spend excess time searching for answers rather than learning material, and increased incidents of cheating. This pilot assignment shifts student focus from answering open-book quiz questions to generating 3 quiz questions per chapter in increasing difficulty.
    
    

• 1:35-1:45 Relaxation Strategies for a Disco Inferno with Kara Kujawa

While some people are born knowing how to boogie down during a night fever, many more need strategies to help them find their chill. Here are a few strategies I offer to my students in order to help build their bag of tricks to finding their vibe even in stressful situations.

• 1:45-1:55 Break
  
  

• 1:55 - 2:25 Spread Good Times and Good Vibes with Course Engagement Choice Board with Kelly Devenney

Get your groove on with this off the hook presentation. You will learn about the course engagement choice board and how adding the choice board to your course will take your class from jive turkey to slammin’ foxy mama.

• 2:25- 2:55 Set the Dance Floor Ablaze with Some New AI Skills with Sean O’Brien and Jacqui Higgins-Dailey 

Looking to showcase some AI moves on the disco dance floor?  Well, strap on your platform shoes and learn some hot new steps in this interactive lesson discussing all the different things you can do with AI... from basic strategies to retrieve information to more advanced techniques to help you find scholarly sources, summarize content, create images, compose correspondence, complete coding projects, and even craft a customized chat of your own.

• 2:55 - 3:05 Break
  
  

• 3:05 - 4:05 Panel Discussion – AI Grooves: Keeping the Disco Fever Alive 

Some higher education institutions, like ASU, are leaning into the use of AI. The business world and workers are certainly making use of AI.  The CTLE has arranged for 5 professionals outside of education to participate in a panel discussion on how they use AI in their professional field and the value of understanding the ethical use of AI.  The goal of the panel is to be informational and possibly eye-opening. How can we be a bridge toward getting students to understand the ethical ways of using AI? Panelists include Kim Thompson, Sean Duggan, Rod Fitzhugh and Tami Swearingin.

• 4:05 - 4:20 Closing