Tech It Out Day 2024

(ED Building Lobby)

12:00 - 12:15 PM and 1:30 - 1:45 PM: ED building lobby

by: Garrett Chaves and Iban Urmeneta, EMC AV Services, Academic Services

Description: Check out some of the latest technologies that are available to loan from EMC AV Services. 

• OBSBOT Tiny 4K AI-Powered PTZ webcam

• Elgato Stream Deck

• Owl Labs Meeting Owl 3 360° 1080p Smart Video Conference Camera

• JBL EON ONE MK2 All-in-One, Battery-Powered Column PA Speaker

• Nikon P950, Point And Shoot digital camera

• Field kit (Zoom Q2n4K video recorder)

• Elmo MX-PX2, document camera

Hands-On Activity: A true hands-on opportunity to hold the technology and ponder its possibilities (ID/ Ed Tech Consultation Request).

Resources: 

• • EMC AV Services 

  • Online Equipment Reservation

(ED 102)

12:20 - 12:55 PM: Zoom as Virtual Background Tool Overview

Presenter: Lauren Lum Ho (laurenlh@hawaii.edu), Instructional Designer, Academic Services

Session Description: Enhance your presentation experience by using your slides as a Zoom Virtual Background. This feature allows participants in live sessions and viewers of recorded videos to experience an immersive presentation where your video is seamlessly integrated with your content. This approach offers numerous benefits, including increased engagement, enhanced visual appeal, and a stronger instructor presence, all of which contribute to a more dynamic and effective presentation.

Hands-On Activity: How to share a presentation as your virtual background 

Resources: 

• • Overview: Slides as Virtual Background: What is the Slides as Virtual Background Zoom tool? 

  • Glow up Your Video Presentations (Canva)  

1:00 - 1:30 PM: Scripting and Presenting using the Slides as Virtual Background Zoom Feature 

Presenter: Lauren Lum Ho (laurenlh@hawaii.edu), Instructional Designer, Academic Services

Session Description: Scripting a video presentation is essential for delivering a polished and effective message, and it also streamlines the captioning process. Here's why scripting matters: it ensures clarity and coherence, helps manage time effectively, maintains consistency, boosts preparation and confidence, and enhances overall quality control. In this session, you'll explore the scripting process and discover how a well-crafted script can simplify the creation of captions, leading to a more accessible and professional presentation.

Hands-On Activity: Craft a script for an introductory slide 

Resources:  

•  Creating a Video Presentation: Scripting and Presenting

• Glow up Your Video Presentations (Canva)  
  
  

1:30 - 1:45 PM: Break Time

Take some time for a break! Grab a snack, use the restroom, stretch, or join us in the lobby to chat with colleagues and visit the AV Tech Table, etc.

2:20 - 2:50 PM: Uploading and Captioning a Video Presentation in YouTube

Presenter: Lauren Lum Ho (laurenlh@hawaii.edu), Instructional Designer, Academic Services

Session Description: Join this session to discover how to elevate the quality and accessibility of your video presentations by editing your Zoom recordings before uploading them to YouTube. We’ll delve into the vital role of captions in making your content accessible, while also enhancing engagement, comprehension, and overall impact. You'll learn the step-by-step process of captioning a video in YouTube, ensuring your content meets diverse learning needs.

Hands-On Activity: Login to YouTube Studio and find the Subtitle tool 

Resources:

•  Creating a Video Presentation: Editing and Uploading to YouTube and Adding Captions

• Glow up Your Video Presentations (Canva)  

2:20 - 2:50 PM: Embedding a YouTube Video into Lamakū

Presenter: Lauren Lum Ho (laurenlh@hawaii.edu), Instructional Designer, Academic Services

Session Description: Once your video presentation is published to YouTube, you are ready to share it with your learners. You will view examples of embedded video options in Lamakū to enrich your content and engage your learners. You will also learn the various ways to share your video including direct link sharing, embedding, and embedding in presentations. 

Hands-On Activity: Find the “Share” button and “Embed” option on a YouTube video

Resources:

•  Creating a Video Presentation: Dissemination

• Glow up Your Video Presentations (Canva)  

(ED 103)

12:20 - 12:55 PM: Exploring New Features in Google Docs  

Presenter: Rachael Inake (rinake@hawaii.edu), EMC Coordinator and Instructional Designer, Academic Services 

Session Description: Google Docs got smarter and so will you! Come to this session to explore several new and cool things Google Docs can do that could boost your productivity and collaboration. Features include smart chips, collapsible headings, building blocks, checklists, and more.

Hands-On Activity: Try out several features that resonate with you in your own Google Doc.

Resources:

•  Exploring New Features in Google Docs - https://go.hawaii.edu/ax4

1:00 - 1:30 PM: Grammarly for Better Emails

Presenter: Rachael Inake (rinake@hawaii.edu), EMC Coordinator and Instructional Designer, Academic Services  

Session Description: Grammarly is an AI writing assistant that can help you correct spelling and grammar issues, check your tone, and help you write clearly, effectively, and intentionally. In this session, we’ll explore the free version of Grammarly and what it can do to help you with correctness, clarity, engagement, and delivery in your emails. The Grammarly browser extension works conveniently in Gmail.

Hands-On Activity: Practice using Grammarly in a Gmail email message, discover what suggestions it offers, and evaluate its suggestions to improve your effectiveness.

Resources:

•  Grammarly for Better Emails - https://go.hawaii.edu/Nxa

1:30 - 1:45 PM: Break Time

Take some time for a break! Grab a snack, use the restroom, stretch, or join us in the lobby to chat with colleagues and visit the AV Tech Table, etc.

2:20 - 2:50 PM: Canva AI  

Presenter: Brent Hirata (bhirata@hawaii.edu), Instructional Designer, Academic Services

Session Description: Ready to take your graphic design skills to the next level? Join us for a quick, hands-on session where we'll dive into the magic of Canva's AI-powered Magic Edit! Canva is a user-friendly, web-based graphic creation tool that's perfect for both beginners and pros. In just 30 minutes, you'll learn how to use your UH credentials to access Canva's free version and explore how AI can transform your images. Whether you want to tweak, enhance, or completely reimagine a photo, Magic Edit has you covered. Don’t forget to bring a favorite photo to experiment with—let’s see what AI magic you can create!

Hands-On Activity: Login to Canva free using your UH credentials, upload a photo and Edit> Magic Studio and > Magic Edit.  Select an area on the image. Then enter in a word prompt and hit generate.

Resources:

•  Use Magic Edit to add, replace, and modify photos

2:20 - 2:50 PM: Padlet - No Flip, Now What! (Ideas for using Padlet) 

Presenter: Brent Hirata (bhirata@hawaii.edu), Instructional Designer, Academic Services

Session Description: Discover how to use Padlet a user-friendly, web-based message board to create dynamic video discussion activities. We'll log into a free Padlet account with your UH credentials and set up a board for short (2-minute) video posts that will keep your students engaged. Bring a device with a camera to fully experience this hands-on session. Plus, you'll learn about two ways to implement Padlet this semester—whether you choose the Free version or apply for a UHCC Padlet Pro license, your students are sure to love this interactive tool!

Hands-On Activity:  Participants will create and share a short video post on a Padlet board, responding to a prompt or question, to experience firsthand how video discussions can be facilitated in their own classes. 

Resources: 

• Using Padlet as a Flip alternative 

• Leeward Tech Fun Fridays Week 9, 2020: Padlet Presentation (Recording)

• UHCC Padlet for Schools teacher accounts (https://go.hawaii.edu/cxa) 

(ED 104)

*Note: The Lamakū Playground sessions are not intended to be comprehensive trainings or workshops. They are intended to provide a fun environment to explore and dabble. If interested in Lamakū workshops, resources, and support, see our email of offerings.

12:20 - 12:55 PM: Account Settings and Profile 

Presenter: Brent Hirata (bhirata@hawaii.edu), Instructional Designer, Academic Services

Session Description: Say hello to Lamakū, the new learning management system for the University of Hawai‘i! Starting this Spring, all UHCCs, and UH Hilo will be using Lamakū to deliver online courses. We’ll get you logged into Lamakū and walk through the basics of setting up your Account and Profile settings. Bring a profile picture of yourself, and let’s personalize your new Lamakū profile! Don’t miss this chance to explore the interface and get started with our new LMS. 

Hands-On Activity: Log in to Lamakū https://lamaku.hawaii.edu/ and upload a profile picture to your profile. (Please check your ability to log in prior to coming to this session, see Tech Check section above) 

Resources:

• Discover Lamakū Website

• Knowledge Base: Tutorials and Resources

• D2L Change your personal settings in Brightspace

• Adjust your profile photo size in a program of your choice or MS Paint or MacOS Preview

• Presentation slide deck

1:00 - 1:30 PM: Lamakū Discussions 

Presenter: Brent Hirata (bhirata@hawaii.edu), Instructional Designer, Academic Services

Session Description: Join us for a quick, hands-on session where we'll explore the Lamakū Discussion Board interface, highlighting familiar features and tools you already know and love. You'll have a chance to post to a discussion prompt: read and reply to a peer's post. This session will give you glimpse into one of the most common online activity types, Discussions.

Hands-On Activity: Read and post to a Lamakū discussion and reply to a colleague.

Resources:

• Discover Lamakū Website

• Knowledge Base: Tutorials and Resources

• D2L About Discussions

• Lamakū Discussions - Resource Doc (Google Doc) by Leeward CC Educational Media Center

1:30 - 1:45 PM: Break Time

Take some time for a break! Grab a snack, use the restroom, stretch, or join us in the lobby to chat with colleagues and visit the AV Tech Table, etc.

2:20 - 2:50 PM: Lamakū Text Editor WYSIWYG Interface

Presenter: Rachael Inake (rinake@hawaii.edu), EMC Coordinator and Instructional Designer, Academic Services 

Session Description: Like Laulima’s text editor, Lamakū utilizes a “Wiz-ee-wig” or “What You See Is What You Get” text editor making it easy to author content directly in Lamakū across all its tools. However, it is a little different from Laulima’s. In this session, you’ll be introduced to Lamakū’s text editor interface and get to try it out for yourself utilizing accessible text styles, text formatting options, inserting hyperlinks, copying/pasting from other sources, and more. It even has a built-in accessibility checker.

Hands-On Activity: Author content in your Lamakū sandbox using the text editor.

Resources:

• Lamakū Text Editor WYSIWYG Interface - https://go.hawaii.edu/Mxa

 2:20 - 2:50 PM: Lamakū Content Tool

Presenter: Rachael Inake (rinake@hawaii.edu), EMC Coordinator and Instructional Designer, Academic Services

Session Description: The Lamakū Content tool provides a modules or lessons type of tool to present your course content whether it is weekly modules for your online course, supplemental content for particular topics for your in-person course, or anywhere in-between. It looks and functions a lot differently than the Laulima Lessons tool so come to this session for an overview of the Content tool structure and some hands-on time to dabble in creating a practice module.

Hands-On Activity: Create a module, add content, edit content, and delete content 

Resources:

• Lamakū Content Structure Guide

• How to use HTML document templates 

• Lamakū Content Tool - https://go.hawaii.edu/axw