Evaluations
Symposium Evaluation
Your evaluation of OTAN’s TDLS 2025 is critically important to help us plan and make next year’s conference even better. Please take a few moments to complete this evaluation and let your voice be heard. Thank you for attending our hybrid TDLS in March 2025! We look forward to seeing you again next year!
Friday Session Evaluations
Registration/Breakfast (7:30am-8:30am)
Welcome & Keynote (8:45am-10:15am)
Session 1 (10:30am-12:00pm)
- Assess, Develop and Certify Your Students' Soft Skills and Work Readiness
- Doing Things Differently with Diffit!
- Reimagining Student Intake: Digitizing Processes to Improve Access
- AI as a Tool in the Adult Education Classroom
- Tech Playground
- Wellness Space
- Drones for CTE and STEM
- Crafting a Hybrid Program with Online and Onsite Flexibility
- Basic Computer Skills for the Beginning ESL Student
- Empathy/Sympathy in Socio-Emotional Learning: Enhancing Connections with AI
Lunch (12:00pm-1:00pm)
Session 2 (1:00pm-2:00pm)
- Exploring AI Bias & Stereotyping
- Resource Navigators for AJCC Connection Sites
- Using Digital Literacy to Support Student Inclusion and Success
- Master Digital Organization in One Day: Learn Google KEEP and Be a Pro
- Teaching Hyflex
- Tech Playground
- Wellness Space
- Introducing an Open-Access ESL, History, Civics, Digital Skills Curriculum
- Classroom Connections: Unleashing Microsoft365 for Smarter Learning
- Student Voice and Problem-Solving Utilizing Sustainable Development Goals
- Teaching Writing and Integrating AI into the Process
Session 3 (2:15pm-3:45pm)
- 2025-26 Continuous Improvement Plan, CIP: A Beginner's Guide to Success
- PETW (Putting English to Work) Series New in Canvas
- Explore AR, VR, and zSpace: A Tech Playground for Educators
- The Human Side of Digital Equity: Experiences, Challenges, and Strategies
- AI for Ease and Efficiency for Educators, Administrators, and Staff
- Tech Playground
- Wellness Space
- Building Digital Bridges: Empower Adult Learners with Essential Tech Skills
- Access America - USA Learns' Updated and 100% Free "Integration ESL" Course
- Digital Well-Being: Tech Balance for a Better Life
- Empowering Educators: Integrating Technology into Your Lesson Plans
Session 4 (4:00pm-5:00pm)
- Passing the Baton: A Relay Race for Reentry Success
- Will Talk Meet Action? OER and OEP with IDEA + Belonging in Learning
- Trauma-Informed Online Teaching Strategies: Girls and Women in Afghanistan
- AI in Everyday Life - Are You Ready?!
- Tech Playground
- Wellness Space
- Cast Your Nets, Wanderers! The Pursuit of Blended and Distance Learning
- EL Civics on Canvas
- Don’t Stress It, Canva Has Your Back!
- Northstar Digital Literacy: Implementations with Porterville Adult School
Saturday Session Evaluations
Registration/Breakfast (8:00am-9:00am)
Session 5 (9:15am-10:15am)
- From Classroom to Catalyst: Leveraging Your Inner Tech Leader
- Using AI in the Development of ESL Lessons and Materials
- Critical Thinking and Fact-Checking in the Age of AI: Building AI Literacy
- Low Tech For Beginners
- Tech Playground
- Wellness Space
- Enhancing Learning with an ESL OER Canvas Course
- Digital Literacy in a Citizenship Curriculum
- Building Connections and Engagement: Using Padlet
- NEDP: Online Pathway to a High School Credential
Session 6 (10:30am-12:00pm)
- California Adult Ed Technology and Digital Learning – A Look at the Data
- Making Math Approachable: Routines that Build Confidence and Fluency
- EdTech and AI Tool Workshop with Adult Education in Mind
- Prompt Essentials for Educators
- Tech Playground
- Wellness Space
- Using Google’s Applied Digital Skills in Adult Education
- PBL for your LMS...FTW (LOL!)
- Empowering Educators with AI: A Hands-On Workshop for Lesson Planning
- Empower Students with AI Literacy: Civics and Career-Related Projects
Lunch (12:00pm-1:00pm)
Session 7 (1:15pm-2:15pm)
- The OTAN Canvas Project: Empowering Adult Educators
- Friend or Foe? The Social Risks and Rewards of Generative AI in Education
- Adult Ed Digital Equity: Hands-On Strategies for Inclusive Digital Learning
- Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? Engaging and Retaining Learners Online
- Tech Playground
- Wellness Space
- Using Data to Inform Instruction for Academic Classes
- Unlock the Power of Learn360: Transforming Lessons with On-Demand Resources
- Tips & Tricks Using Google Classroom
- Free Canvas Courses in ESL and ABE Sponsored by OTAN