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Constanza Silva

Educational Technologist Specialist
Concordia University

Sessions in which Constanza Silva attends

Thursday 22 February, 2024

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | 45 minutes
In-personHybrid

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.

Paul Fournier

Keynote speaker
11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | 45 minutes
Virtual

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.

Friday 23 February, 2024

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:15 AM
10:15 AM - 11:10 AM | 55 minutes
Virtual

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)...

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM | 45 minutes
Virtual

An introduction and demonstration of Microsoft Lists as a tool to organize your work and collaborate with colleagues. 

Tim Ni

Presenter

Jang Kwon

Presenter
11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 11:40 AM | 25 minutes
Virtual

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...

1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 1:55 PM | 55 minutes
Virtual

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.

Yan Liu

Presenter

Zerui Wang

Presenter
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 2:25 PM | 25 minutes
Virtual

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.