This is your front-row seat to innovation! Geekapalooza is an annual technology showcase by some of the college’s biggest geeks. Those who attend receive new insight about teaching with technology, as well as other geeky goodies.
About the Event
Discover emerging learning technologies and transformative teaching strategies being used at Medicine Hat College.
The goal for Geekapalooza is to inform, inspire, and engage participants in the use of educational technology by sharing tools or techniques that are being used effectively by faculty and staff at Medicine Hat College. Geekapalooza takes place each year on the day after College Day.
This year’s event will be held on AUGUST 22, 2024.
Registration
Participants can join in-person or live online. Registration is NOT required and is open to all MHC faculty and staff. There will be a social following the event to keep the conversations going, as well as prizes and lunch provided for participants.
Below you can download the schedule of sessions along with descriptions and more details about the upcoming event.
Sessions
After a brief welcome to the event, participants will get a refresher on what’s new in Blackboard with the update that took place this past spring, which welcomed users with a new landing page and navigation. Come check out this new layout and see what’s trending in the world of educational technology.
PRESENTED BY
Andrea Woods
Teaching & Learning
Employers are expecting recent graduates to be able to effectively use AI like ChatGPT – as well as train the current staff. Join us for an insightful session designed to equip faculty with the knowledge and skills to effectively teach ChatGPT’s benefits, drawbacks and how it can be used in professional practices.
PRESENTED BY
Rene Hemenway
Teaching & Learning
This session will demonstrate how to seamlessly integrate Microsoft Forms into your PowerPoint presentations to boost student engagement through group polling. Using Microsoft Forms we will explore creative ways to use live polls to spark discussions, assess understanding, and make lectures more dynamic.
PRESENTED BY
Samantha Jagt
School of Business and Continuing Studies
This session explores the benefits and uses of student e-portfolios for professional presentation and personal development. We’ll review examples and configurations, and provide a timeline showing how an e-portfolio can evolve through the MHC program to showcase skills and achievements.
PRESENTED BY
Lorelei Boschman
School of Arts, Science and Education
Come on down and be the next contestants on the Cheating Game Show! Test your knowledge and engage in a friendly competition with your colleagues answering questions about cheating, plagiarism and more. You’ll walk away with practical tips that may improve your assessment outcomes.
PRESENTED BY
Carly Ridgewell
Teaching & Learning
The changing world of the college classroom means instructors, now more than ever, need to be creative, especially in their assignments. Leveraging technology offers a multitude of opportunities to help students both engage deeply with course material and produce high quality work. This session will share some user-friendly tech-tools with accompanying assignment ideas and exemplars.
PRESENTED BY
Colleen Andjelic
School of Arts, Science and Education