Wanda Butterly | Las Positas College

• Accessibility problems piling up in your course?

• Don’t understand accessibility—or just don’t have the time (or budget!) to fix it all?

• Tired of spending hours remediating content when you'd rather be teaching… or literally doing anything else?

• ✨Never fear… Wanda Woman is here! ✨

Join me for a fast-paced, eye-opening, jaw-dropping rescue mission into the world of ADA-compliant course design. I’ll unveil my faculty-tested, FERPA-compliant app that transforms inaccessible content into clean, accessible, UDL-friendly magic—in minutes, not hours. If you can copy and paste, you can make your course fully accessible. If you can’t copy and paste… well, good news—I cover that too. Come learn, and leave with the ultimate superpower of Effortless accessibility.

Patty Sanchez & Merari Weber, Song Hong | Santiago Canyon College 

Join us for an interactive HyFlex workshop designed to deepen your understanding of culturally affirming and meaningful assignments. Together, we will explore key principles that support equity, inclusion, and student-centered learning, highlighting concrete examples that demonstrate how intentional design can transform classroom practice. Participants will engage in guided discussions and hands-on collaborative activities to create lessons and assessments that honor students’ lived experiences and cultural assets. Using generative AI tools, attendees will practice crafting effective prompts that align instructional goals with culturally affirming frameworks, helping students make authentic connections between course content and their own lived realities. To fully participate in the design activities, please bring a laptop or tablet. This workshop offers practical strategies, opportunities for reflection, and ready-to-use approaches that will enhance your teaching repertoire while fostering meaningful engagement and deeper learning for diverse student populations.

Jim Julius & Scotty James  | MiraCosta College, Santiago Canyon College 

Let’s be honest. Online education has been in need of a makeover for a while. Regulations, rubrics, and reviews might help with minor remodels. But now that generative AI is on the scene, the conventional wisdom for making online classes meaningful places for authentic learning is clearly insufficient. Does this mean generative AI is the enemy of online education? Not necessarily! In this session, hear from online education and AI leaders from two colleges who will describe not just design ideas for online course makeovers, but also leadership strategies to help our colleagues and colleges to undertake this work together.

Jaime Moquin | Nectir AI

This interactive demo introduces Nectir AI, a FERPA-compliant platform available free of charge to all faculty and staff through the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges. Participants will see how Nectir AI works in real instructional contexts, how it differs from consumer AI tools, and how it can support student learning while keeping faculty in control. The session focuses on practical use, transparency, and confidence, helping participants leave knowing exactly how and why they might use Nectir in their own work.

Evic Oropilla & Mohanraj Umapathy | Palomar College, Qikr AI

As AI assistants redefine the educational landscape, CCC TechConnect is leading the way with 3C Media Qikr AI Assistants. This session provides an in-depth look at how this powerful tool - integrated directly into Canvas via LTI - can transform student support and faculty workflows. Participants will explore the 3C Media Qikr difference: a system built on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technology. Unlike generic AI, RAG ensures the assistant provides answers based strictly on your course materials. We will walk through and demonstrate the tools set-up, settings and features. In the second half of this session, we transition from demonstration to hands-on practice. You will learn to configure your own assistant, customize prompts to match your teaching voice, and explore what 3C Media Qikr AI can do for you! Note: This session includes a hands-on workshop component. Attendees are highly encouraged to bring a laptop or tablet (BYOD) to participate and be ready for the interactive part of the workshop. 

Kristopher Horton | MiraCosta College & CSUSM

Ever had a student turn in work that’s just too polished, too banal, and probably AI generated? But did you know you can have an AI write a prompt for another AI that allows it to create work that has natural human errors in it to avoid the AI detection? What!? How do we assess in this new landscape? Let’s tackle these challenges head on: The Assessment Game in the Time of AI is a tile-based game that challenges attendees to articulate creative solutions to assessing Bloom’s Taxonomy now that GenAI has proven it’s here to stay. Collaborate with colleagues in a fun, low-stakes game environment where the next big idea might be a turn away. Share what assessments are still working for you, which ones are broken, and together as a group, develop a theoretical assessment strategy that covers the entirety of Bloom’s Taxonomy even when AI challenges make things difficult.

Alayne Flores & Ruth Wilson | San Diego College of Continuing Education

Most conversations about AI in education focus on cheating, creativity, or productivity, but the environmental costs lagged in making headlines. This session introduces “Green AI” as a simple, classroom-ready way to help students think critically about the hidden footprint of their digital lives. In clear, non-technical language, we’ll explore how AI systems use large amounts of energy and water, rely on resource-intensive supply chains, and contribute to carbon emissions.  Participants will experience and debrief several adaptable activities: estimating the “carbon cost” of a prompt compared to other digital actions, debating whether AI is truly needed for a given assignment, and comparing wasteful versus efficient prompting workflows. These tasks build argumentation, critical thinking, and digital citizenship while weaving in environmental literacy. Attendees will leave with a Green AI Classroom Checklist, reflection and discussion questions, and flexible activity ideas they can plug into existing courses to help students use AI thoughtfully, not wastefully.

Larry Burns | Riverside City College

This demonstration showcases how ChatGPT 5.1 (business seat) can serve as a collaborative partner in designing, refining, and presenting classroom activities for college-level in person English instruction. Using my Week Six course planning as a live case study, I will illustrate a step-by-step workflow in which AI supports my faculty expertise. The session will highlight how generative AI can assist with brainstorming culturally responsive prompts, drafting multimodal assignments, revising rubrics for clarity and equity, and generating accessible materials aligned with UDL principles. Participants will see how iterative dialogue with ChatGPT can enhance transparency in assignment design, scaffold deeper student engagement, and free up teacher time for higher-touch, human-centered interactions. The demonstration will also address ethical considerations, modeling how instructors can integrate AI responsibly within their pedagogy. Designed specifically for faculty, this session aims to offer practical, replicable strategies for incorporating GenAI into everyday teaching workflows. Attendees will leave with concrete examples, adaptable prompt templates, and a clearer understanding of how to leverage AI as a tool for creativity, critical thinking, and inclusive learning, while not losing the very human heart of the classroom experience.

Jennifer Bielman | Riverside City College

This session explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping higher education and the complex ethical questions that come with it. We will look at common challenges, practical solutions, and emerging considerations that matter for classified professionals, faculty, and administrators. Participants will gain clear strategies for using AI in ways that support responsible, inclusive, and equitable practice across the college. Join us for an engaging discussion on how AI can strengthen teaching, learning, and daily operations when implemented with care.