Conference Tracks

Before adopting (and abandoning) another popular project management app, project managers must first learn to design and implement an effective project management workflow. This session guides participants through concrete steps for drafting an actionable organization mission statement, creating a prioritizing system for tasks, and establishing a system for stating and successfully executing goals.

With Adobe Spark, you have a one-stop content shop for creating and sharing visual stories that will wow your audience on any device. Adobe Spark makes it easy for anyone to create three different kinds of content: social media posts and graphics, web stories, and animated videos. All you need is something to say and Adobe magic will take care of the rest with eye catching animation and beautiful designs to help bring your stories to life.

Tracie Savage, known television news anchor and Los Angeles personality, describes the challenge of adapting journalistic techniques to the digital age -- and yet maintaining those journalistic principals from the "analogue era." The focus of her session will include basics of writing a good news story (the who/ what/ when/ where/ why/ how) and some of the differences that the immediacy of the 24 hour news cycle has brought.

Students attempting to find work in creative industries are gaining many of the technical skills they need to work - but are often missing skills to get, keep, and flourish in their careers in these fields. Skills gaps covered in the workshop include:

• 21st century skills (including soft skills)
• Job and internship research and application
• Networking
• Portfolio creation and presentation
• Alternative work opportunities including freelancing and entrepreneurship.

Explore a case study of how CreatorUp is teaming up with LACC to develop a workshop program entitled "Getting a Job in Creative Industries: You, Your Skills, Your Portfolio". Learn what items are covered in the workshop series - and how LACC plans to implement on this campus, and how you may be able to implement it on your campus.

Now is your chance to become an Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) at no cost to you! Offered by  Certiport.  Test being offered:

• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• InDesign
• Dreamweaver
• Flash
• Premiere

This popular panel is updated every year and features students who have graduated and are now in the workforce returning to discuss program successes and areas for improvement. As the entertainment industry is in a constant state of flux, it it often difficult for instructors to know exactly what is needed by the current workforce. Having ex-students from a variety of campuses provides an opportunity to learn what works, what needs work, and how to prepare students for work. This panel will be led by Robert Reber, who has become not only a familar face at all events ranging from DMEC to but many for LA region CCPs.

Meta Data, Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning.....Technology has increased the velocity of innovation to unprecedented levels. As a result, the ways in which we learn and work are constantly evolving. While colleges & universities try to adjust to this evolving environment, this presentation serves as a guide for community college students to gracefully prepare & maneuver their career.

Now is your chance to become an Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) at no cost to you! Offered by  Certiport.  Test being offered:

• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• InDesign
• Dreamweaver
• Flash
• Premiere

Today’s digital media jobs are often hidden in places outside the digital media realm. Software development and programming is one area where a few key digital media classes can give a job candidate an edge to employment. This presentation looks at three years of software developer online jobs through Burning Glass, broken down by software language and industry, then plotted by the growth and frequency of languages in demand. This presentation sorts through the various language combinations and creates a clear picture of the most effective software skills to teach. Dennis Mohle, computer faculty member at Fresno City College, and James Cha, software professional from Fresno, California, integrate the findings of this recent report into best Computer Science practices from academic and industry perspectives.

The Interaction Design Bachelor of Science degree at Santa Monica College is one of the first baccalaureate degrees approved by the California Community Colleges Board of Governors. Part of a landmark pilot program, upper-division courses in the IxD Program will be offered in Fall 2016. In this presentation Jamie Cavanaugh, faculty leader for the new IxD Program, will share information on what interaction design is, the IxD degree curriculum, how it builds on the current A.S. degree in Graphic Design, and the future of UX/Interaction Design education.