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Megan Fitzgibbons

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Acting Associate University Librarian, Teaching & Learning
Concordia University Library
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Sessions in which Megan Fitzgibbons participates

Tuesday 11 February, 2025

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM | 45 minutes
In-person eventHybrid

Sometimes it’s the little things that make the biggest difference. This lightning round is a treasure trove of quick wins and clever hacks. Presenters will share their go-to tools, time-saving techniques, and best practices that can streamline your workday and elevate your skills.

Wednesday 12 February, 2025

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM | 40 minutes
Online

Join us to discover how scenario-based learning can transform your approach to teaching digital skills and enhance digital fluency for your students or team.This presentation is designed to equip employees with the foundational knowledge and confidence needed to effectively teach and learn digital skills. The session introduces a scenario-based strategy that simplifies complex concepts and provides practical, hands-on experience with digital tools. By demonstrating the strategy in acti...

Sessions in which Megan Fitzgibbons attends

Wednesday 12 February, 2025

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM | 25 minutes
Online

Can AI assist faculty with writing objective (multiple choice) questions? If it can, can it do so in the recommended criterion-referenced way? What is the quality of the resulting questions? Can this reduce work for the instructor?In this session for instructors and pedagogical counsellors, we present the case study of one pilot project: a learning assessment in an undergraduate course. We describe the approvals received for the effort, then demonstrate the tools used to generate test ...

11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 11:55 AM | 25 minutes
Online

How are students using GenAI tools in their academic work? For the last two years, Concordia Library has been offering workshops on the critical use of GenAI tools. These workshops made space for students to share their thoughts and experiences related to using these tools. In this session, two librarians will share their observation and insights from facilitating these conversations with students about GenAI tools. They will also discuss how this student feedback can inform ongoing AI litera...

1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 1:40 PM | 40 minutes
Online

Discover how to supercharge your daily work using Cursor and Obsidian. While Cursor is primarily used as a programming tool, this workshop will show you how its powerful AI features can benefit everyone's daily work, whether you write code or not. The session will provide practical demonstrations and real-world examples to help you get started with these tools.

2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM | 40 minutes
Online

In this session, we will use an open-source software that allows you to download and run large language models locally on standard computers. The software has a graphical interface to interact with the models without any coding, making this accessible to everyone in our community.We will learn to privately engage with open-source foundational models, such as Llama and Phi-3, and use them to interact with our own documents without sending any information to a cloud service. As we do the...

3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:40 PM | 40 minutes
Online

OpenRefine is a powerful, free tool that simplifies working with messy data. During this workshop, attendees will learn how OpenRefine can be used to clean and normalize data sets, reorder columns, filter data, and transform data sets into different file types.