What is Tech Day?

On our campus we are constantly surrounded by technology yet we never really take the time to explore the seamless relationship between the academic and the technological.  Tech Day is an opportunity for the
Tulane community to come together and celebrate the technology that makes life on our campus what it is.  It is a day of toys, tech, food and fun.  We will have academic and technical presentations as well as games
and door prizes.  Come learn about the new trends in technology and education with presentations from our faculty and the vendors that provide us with the technology you use every day.  Tech Day is free and open to the public, make sure to register for a chance at some of our amazing door prizes.

Tech Day Schedules

Uptown @ the Lavin Bernick Center

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Downtown @ the Health Sciences Center

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Northshore @ the Tulane  National Primate Research Center

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Vendor info coming soon.

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Come Show Us Your Skills

Check out the lightening fast presentation of these great games and throw your hat in the ring
for a chance to take home some great prizes.  Take the opportunity to show your classmates
how you spent your summer vacation.

Door Prizes Extraordinaire

All of our vendors are contributing fantastic prizes to be given away.  This year's prizes TBA.
All you have to do to enter is Register.

Keynote:  Being There in the Real Time Web

Alan Levine, VP of the New Media Consortium

12:30-1:30pm

Riddle me this. In the time span of half a generation since the consumerization of the web, this supernova expansion of information technology across a global network has seismically shifted the foundation of traditional industries such as publishing, commerce, television, music, telephony... yet how much has changed in education? For many people who have lived through this time, we carry frameworks of information organized into files, folders, static documents mostly in isolation from other information. Another wave is upon us via what may be called the "real time web", where we tap into a rich flow of data propagating via social networks that challenges are instincts of organization, management, and retrieval. We cannot grasp the significance looking in from the outside; to understand we ought to "be there." In this presentation, we'll jump right into the real time flow for a taste of what may be possible for educators like you to harness.

The 2011 Keynote will be Ian Bogost

What You Don't Know About Computers
12:30 PM in Kendal Cram (2nd floor LBC)

We often think of computers as devices that make familiar tasks easier or faster, or machines that allow us to pursue new tasks in exciting and liberating ways. But despite our apparent love affair with them, we tend to use computers for the purposes given to us by hardware and software creators, accepting current trends and techniques rather than inventing wholly new applications. Yet, inventing new applications requires a deeper and more subtle understanding of how computational media works, how it's constructed, and how the happenstances of its evolution make some applications obvious and others less so. Such knowledge is necessarily technical but within reach for creators and users alike.