Daniel Capelo Borges
Sessions in which Daniel Capelo Borges attends
Thursday 22 February, 2024
Concordia University's Associate Vice-President of IITS and Chief Information Officer, Philippe Delisle and Concordia’s University Librarian, Amy Buckland, will kick off the first day of the Digital Skill-Share Days event on February 22nd with the plenary session. Join us to learn more about the Digital Skill-Share Days event and how you can benefit from this collaborative learning environment, and what this exchange of ideas can bring to your daily wo...
This session is an invitation for collective insight into the interplay between humans and technology. Dive into how people, culture, and technology collectively shape our experiences and drive our community. Engage in an exploration of how we can apply a system's thinking approach to enrich our work at Concordia.
The Sustainability Volunteering Program aims to connect students with all available volunteer opportunities on campus that contribute towards environmental, social, and economic sustainability. There are many initiatives in our campus sustainability ecosystem, offered by clubs, student organizations, university offices, and academic departments. Although we prioritize use of the SVP to students, community members and staff are welcome to join.This training will teach faculty and sta...
UNITY has launched more than two years ago. Now is a great time to refresh some of your skills around time management. Concordia Employees and Managers are welcome to join this session, where we will review the UNITY My Time (WorkForce Software) solution and share some tips and tricks around managing one's timesheet and time off requests.
This session will provide quick tricks for batch data cleaning in Excel and an overview of formulas and functionalities that provide a big impact on data visualization and manipulation minimal efforts. Time will also be provided at the end for discussion and interactive problem solving to attendees' current Excel challenges.
As digital technology continues to impact everyday life, it is important to build an individual awareness of the risks that the digital age pose to the social and environmental systems that support human and planetary health. This session will explain the concept of Digital Sustainability - including understanding the negative impacts of digitalization, and exploring how digital tools can accelerate sustainable development and address challenges like climate change. The session will provide a...
The Concordia Library launched its Library Hub on SharePoint Online in December 2021. It is a central location for Library information that is relevant to all staff and it links to other SharePoint sites for individual units within the Library. It features a Project Index, Facilities Issue Tracker, News and Events sections, and tens of thousands of documents filed according to Concordia's Records Classification and Retention Plan. This digital skill share session will cover the story of how w...
This session is designed for instructors who already have experience with Moodle and are looking for new ways of incorporating various Moodle activities into their teaching practice. You will see creative examples of using common Moodle tools such as Assignment, Page, Choice, Forum, Glossary, etc. You will also get an overview of how to set up these activities to make your teaching more effective and engaging.
The presentation will showcase the use of some applications on your iPad that allow teaching to be more effective and interactive. Also, how to grade students' work in ways that save time while making the process more humanistic but effective and "ecofriendly".
Friday 23 February, 2024
In this presentation, I will explore some of the ways we use AI (especially generative AI) in the office, and the implications of this, focusing on equity and diversity.
An introduction and demonstration of Microsoft Lists as a tool to organize your work and collaborate with colleagues.
Have you heard about Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) but are not sure how to interact with these tools? This session will provide an introductory overview of "prompt engineering": the process of crafting and structuring text to effectively communicate with generative AI models. Core concepts and best practices of prompt engineering will also be discussed. Live demos will be used to demonstrate various prompting techniques while exploring text generating AI tools like ChatGPT (and/or Perplexity)...
This workshop offers a theoretical exploration of process and lean management strategies. Discussions will focus on understanding key principles to enhance operational efficiency. Join us for an informative session aimed at providing a theoretical framework for implementing effective process and lean management strategies.
During this session we will talk about how from the need of research project (SpokenWeb) we developed an open-source platform, called Swallow, that has now life on its own.
New opportunities are emerging in teaching and learning that will allow for even greater flexibility for faculty, students and staff thanks to the latest advances in technology and our understanding of learner engagement. Space planning and classroom design play a central role in bringing together new hybrid and flexible modes of teaching and learning. This presentation will showcase spaces, ideas and plans to explain where Concordia is today and where we can go in future as we continue the c...
In this dynamic digitalized world, it is pretty essential to understand and properly address our "digital identities". Better awareness of that may help us to take better decisions on privacy and security.For example, in recent times at Concordia community, we have often been impacted by scam attempts through e-mails or other ways. While systems and policies are always trying to protect us from such risks, our awareness can safeguard us best.Hence, proposing a session on "digita...
Are you tired of Doodle and and Xoyondo meeting polls? Do you want to use something that integrates seamlessly into your Outlook and shows you who's available and when? Do you want to create customized appointment booking links that automatically take into account your availabilities? Are you someone who manages a busy person's calendar? If so, this is the session for you!In this session I will be demonstrating Outlook Scheduling Polls and MS Bookings pages to g...
SaaS based development become an essential technology asset for incremental and agile development to achieve business values by leveraging open computing technologies and AI services. This session will share basic principles in design SaaS and associated practices on architecture design of microservices, and data transformation pipelines.
Manufacturers of immersive technology hardware have begun to include Mixed Reality capabilities in their next generation of products. Whereas Virtual Reality offered fully immersive (and virtual) environments, Mixed Reality blends the Virtual with Reality, offering the learners access to both simultaneously. In this session, we will dive into the implications for education and learning contexts.
Presentation of the different institutional repositories at Concordia: Network shared drives, HomeDrive, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint. Pros and cons for each of them.
This session will be focused on Concordia University & the Udemy Business Learning Platform, primarily focusing on keeping pace with changing technology in a Digital World, with a focus on how Concordia learners are currently leveraging technical content to upskill & reskill.
STEM courses are popular but may face limitations in online learning environments. In particular, learners with visual impairments (VI) often struggle since screen readers rarely describe equations or chemical formulas accurately by default.Moreover, alt text is virtually nonexistent in university courses & popular media, especially for charts & graphs.What does the research say about this topic?How does theory work in practice?This workshop will share t...
Looking to better organize your day to day tasks? This session will focus on using applications like Planner, To-Do and Teams to help you streamline your work.
Powerpoint is a tool used by many of us in our day to day work, but there can be so much more to it than putting text and images on the slide. In this short, beginner-friendly session, we will explore a few additional features that can help spice up your future presentations... and unlock your creative powers through the use case of creating an interactive game in Powerpoint, because why not?
Session Overview:1. eConcordia Courses - Student Demographics • Analyzing the demographic makeup of eConcordia online learners, including geographical location, language, number of courses taken, faculties etc.. 2. Motivations for Choosing Online Learning • Exploring the multifaceted reasons students opt for online education based on student feedback.• Comparing these motivations with traditional learning preferences, accessibility, and tools• Talking ab...
I will explain the main technologies and mechanisms related to 3D printing, go over some of the pros and cons, give a glimpse of the future and give ideas on how to implement it for home, business and education.
I will go through various methodologies for getting work done faster on PC. I will cover some open-source software and better ways to work with popular browsers and software.
