Speakers: Andrew Holsinger, Ken Johnson, Chris Enroth
Get a behind-the-scenes look at how to create and edit a podcast, video, or other digital media. Chris Enroth, Ken Johnson, and Andrew Holsinger will provide a behind-the-scenes tour of the award-winning Good Growing Podcast and Four Seasons Gardening Series. This session will walk you through their creative processes to develop and edit media for posting online. Software discussed will include Zoom, Adobe Premiere Pro, Transistor, YouTube, and Sonix. Presenters will also discuss the hardware used in recording content for posting online.
Speakers: Jeremy Perkins
When managing multiple websites under a single brand, having a flexible design system is key. Temple University has a mature Drupal component framework that needed to be replicated in Figma so that internal groups at Temple could sketch out new web pages, allowing them to experiment with content while easing the path to development. In this session, we will walk through how we organized, architected, and built a library in Figma with dozens of components, variants, properties, and styles. We will highlight some differences between Figma and CSS, workarounds, and demonstrate how the library allows prototyping new pages in minutes.
Speakers: Becky Barbour, Trey Frank, Mary Ditchen
As members of the IT community, we’re constantly tasked with solving problems and creating better digital experiences for people. No one should do this alone, but how often have you found yourself struggling with solutions to a messy problem, responding to a demanding customer, or mustering up the energy to do something you’re uncomfortable doing? In this session, you’ll hear from three members of Illinois State University’s digital experience team. Mary (front end developer), Becky (content strategist), and Trey (designer) used to work in silos. It was inefficient, lonely, and hard. Now they collaborate every day and lean on each other’s strengths, share the heavy cognitive load of project processes, and make decisions together. The natural project struggles remain, but no one struggles alone. The result has been wildly successful for their internal team and campus partners. This new approach to projects just might work for you and your team.
Speaker: Lauren Laws
As communicators, we know how to write articles. But not all subjects are flashy. Some research, while very important, can also be dry. If you want your article to get out there and circulate, you need to be creative and draw your reader in so they don’t want to stop. In this workshop, I’ll share my tools for doing just that: From finding the soul of the article to setting the scene, and in some cases how to present your work in an entirely different format.
Speaker: Todd Spinner
Unfortunately, little research has been done on adults with Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), or defined as neurodivergent. Many younger creatives may have been diagnosed as being somewhere on the autism spectrum as children. However, many more, especially older individuals may have not been officially diagnosed. This presentation introduces those in the creative and tech fields to strategies for working with co-workers who may have ASD or are neurodivergent, which is not often addressed in diversity and inclusion initiatives. Attendees will learn about strategies for working with, supporting and succeeding with neurodivergent coworkers as well as receive a guide on working with ASD and neurodivergent coworkers and teams.
Speaker: Kelly Delahanty
After DM-ing my first Dungeons & Dragons campaign, I realized that running a usability test and running a D&D session had a lot in common: you do a lot of perpetration, figure out how to schedule around multiple busy people’s schedules, ask people to complete different tasks, and then have to sit back and resist the urge to jump in with the solution as they hopefully don’t accidentally set everything on fire. All this can be a lot to deal with, but I’ve got some tips make your UX process – and your adventure – less stressful.
Speakers: Michael Curtin, Amy Young
Join us on an exciting exploration of the rapidly evolving world of visually generative AI. This fascinating technology is transforming numerous industries in eye-opening ways. We’ll showcase inspiring use cases in the film and video game spheres, where AI is reinventing visual storytelling and gameplay. You’ll get hands-on with fun demos that prove these cutting-edge tools can be harnessed by non-artists too. We’ll also delve into the profound impacts on art education, as AI redefines how creativity is taught and learned. This is a front-row seat to an AI-powered creative revolution – don’t miss it!
Speaker: Emma Horrell
Content design is a specialist skill to be learned, and if it’s not your area, you may not have the time nor inclination to learn it or to understand why you should care about content. In HE, many of us operate with distributed and devolved content creators, who can use our content management systems (CMS) to publish content without review. We can develop training programs and documentation to support them to use the CMS and create user-centered but what if the CMS was built with content design in mind? In this talk I’ll explore how to design your CMS to support and encourage content design, making it more intuitive for distributed editors to use, with built-in tips and training. The result? A system that’s a joy to use, and great content produced as a consequence.
Speaker: Jepson Taylor
Get ready to venture into the uncharted territory of future job markets with AI expert Jepson Taylor. This talk focuses on the intersection of AI, entrepreneurship, and the emerging job landscape. Learn from Jepson’s extensive experience in startups and AI applications how to prepare for and excel in jobs that don’t yet exist, leveraging AI as a powerful tool in your career arsenal.