Ping Ng is a Learning Experience Designer at eConcordia. He specializes in Serious Games, XR technologies and Simulation projects, and his focus is to bring technological and design solutions to help create learning activities that promote student engagement in online and virtual learning environments.
Sessions in which Ping Ng participates
Wednesday 25 February, 2026
If you’d rather not share your data with mysterious servers in faraway places, this session might be for you. We’ll start by clarifying what “open source” means and highlighting a few open-source LLMs. You’ll learn the key differences between locally run and cloud-based models, and why those differences matter for privacy and security. Then we’ll introduce Ollama, a simple tool that makes it easy to download small language models and run them locally. We’ll wrap up with a step-by-step demo on...
Have you ever asked yourself "if only I could put together a little video for this", but you were unsure how to go about it? In this session, let's go over some basic tips on how to create a simple narrated animation video using two common tools: PowerPoint and Clipchamp. We probably won't win an Oscar with this, but it might help us in a pinch!