About the Symposium
Started in 2010, the Symposium is organized by the Finger Lakes Faculty Development Network (FLFDN) as a part of Ithaca College’s Annual Educational Technology Day. The sessions will present innovative uses of both established and new technologies for teaching and learning. In addition, we seek submissions that focus on best practices in the use of technologies and pedagogies, as well as scholarship that assesses the impact of technology on student learning. Anyone may submit a proposal for a symposium session. Guidelines, and a link to the proposal submission form, follow.
Submitting a Proposal
Sessions feature innovative uses of technologies, application of technology to support teaching and learning, researching and assessing the impact of technology on student success, as well as challenges or problems you are trying to solve where technology has made a positive impact on the experience. We also encourage presentation proposals that include students as collaborators and elevate the student voice.
Presentation topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Active learning classrooms
- OER/open access/open scholarship
- Globally networked learning environments
- Personalized learning
- Faculty development in instructional technologies
- Innovative classroom instruction
- Adaptive learning
- Technology and student research
- Digital Humanities
- Artificial Intelligence in the classroom
- Innovative centers for teaching and learning
- Accessibility/Universal Design for Learning
Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium sessions are offered as one of the concurrent tracks during the Ed Tech Day event. Teaching & Learning with Technology Symposium sessions run 20 minutes and align within the Ed Tech Day schedule. Ed Tech Day concurrent sessions are 50-minutes long with 10-minutes between sessions, beginning at the top of the hour.
Prior to submission, as you write your proposal, please consider:
- Sessions are 20 minutes in length, including Q&A
- A concise title that inspires attendees to join the session
- Descriptive abstract of no more than 250 words
- Learning objectives of your session (up to 3)
- Description of the technologies and/or pedagogies applied
- Description of how you will engage your audience
- Collaborators should include names of all presenters
Additional Information
- Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of the Finger Lakes Faculty Development Network, and presenters will be notified by February 23.
- All presenters must register for the Ed Tech Day event at Ithaca College. This is a free event.
- The conference room will have a projector, microphone and speakers, wireless capability, connection for a laptop, and a desktop with dual monitors. We suggest bringing a backup of your presentation.
- The conference room seats about 40 people. The audience will be faculty, staff, and students from institutions across the region.
- Printing will not be available on site, presenters should bring any handouts for the audience as appropriate.
- Presenters will be asked to upload any files to a shared Google Drive that will be made available to participants.
Questions about the Symposium should be directed to Jenna Linskens, Ithaca College, jlinskens@ithaca.edu.
Questions about Educational Technology Day should be directed to Information Technology at Ithaca College, edtechday@ithaca.edu.
The Finger Lakes Faculty Development Network is an organization linking people involved in faculty development at campuses in central and western New York. Regular meetings rotate among member campuses or through web conferencing. Please visit the FLFDN website to become involved.