Introduce Yourself - SFC Spring 2025 by AI Learning Academy

Andrea Ramirez-Salgado

ai_learning_academy — 2025-04-03 16:38:41 UTC

Hi everyone! I’ll be your facilitator for the AI Fundamentals Day. I teach several AI-related courses, including AI Systems, Machine Learning for AI, and Applied Deep Learning. As a researcher, my primary goal is to develop support systems that empower women to succeed in computer engineering. In my free time, I love spending quality time with my kids! I am looking forward to having great conversations with you all!

This image was AI-generated using the "I can't draw" feature from Padlet. Prompt used: My introduction in this box + the word "Latina"

Introduction

ai_learning_academy — 2025-04-03 16:38:41 UTC

Hello everyone! My name is Isabell, and I’m thrilled to welcome you to the AI Learning Academy. As the Academy’s Administrative Specialist, I’m here to provide support to our staff, faculty, and leadership. I hold a bachelor’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Central Florida. In my free time, I enjoy video games, reading, painting and spending quality time with friends over board games. Looking forward to connecting with you all!

ai_learning_academy — 2025-04-03 16:38:41 UTC

Welcome to the AI Academy! I am Margeaux, a former librarian and current educational technology professional who specializes in faculty professional development. I am looking forward to our exploration of AI Fundamentals, AI Ethics, and AI Applications together.

Prompt: Painted portrait in the style of Frida Kahlo of a fat woman with a full round face, blonde hair, and librarian glasses. She is wearing all black and is surrounded by tropical houseplants like philodendrons.

Jenna - project manager

ai_learning_academy — 2025-04-03 16:38:41 UTC

Hi everyone! I’m Jenna, the project manager at the AI2 Center. I’m happy to meet you all and host you hear this week in our Learning Academy space.

I have a bachelors in Psychology and a masters in Education. I love cooking and eating delicious food.

If you need any assistance while you’re with us this week, please do not hesitate to reach out to me. I’m happy to help!

Intro

2025-05-05 12:51:33 UTC

Hi everyone! I’m Matt Michel, International Education Coordinator at Santa Fe College. I teach Business Law and Spanish classes, mostly online. I spent spring break in Campeche, Mexico with a cohort of students and faculty studying Mayan art with Prof. Mario Mutis. My hobbies include watching Gator football and wishing the Jaguars were better.

2025-05-05 12:52:46 UTC

Always think type!

Graduated from Santa Fe in 1970

Golf is my favorite pastime

Presently a adjunct professor at Santa Fe

Introduction

2025-05-05 12:53:46 UTC

The director of the center for teaching and learning at Santa Fe. I love all things professional development. Excited to explore AI with my colleagues

Ana Useche

2025-05-05 12:54:39 UTC

Bill Poellmitz

2025-05-05 12:54:45 UTC

Good morning! My name is Bill, and I teach business, economics, and marketing. As a technology entrepreneur, I spent 40 years in business.

I encourage students to use AI for exploration and inspiration, and am here this week to learn more about the practical applications of AI.

Elizabeth Tobener

2025-05-05 12:55:06 UTC

Hello! My name is Lizzy. I am a clinical professor in audiology at UF. I am excited about learning more about AI and how I can incorporate it into my teaching to provide more meaningful experiences for my students. In my free time, I like to be out on the lake and playing with my dogs and cat.

Prompt: what I wrote in my introduction

Julie A. Shay

2025-05-05 12:55:46 UTC

Hi everyone. It is great to be here. I am a professor who teaches health information technology, program director of four programs preparing the next generation of HI professionals who perform operations, treatment, payment for healthcare providers. Hobbies include travel, reading, family and sports. Nice to meet. Feel free to connect via LinkedIn.

sarahcervone — 2025-05-05 12:56:35 UTC

Hello everyone!! I’m Sarah Cervone. I teach Humanities at Santa Fe College, and I am keen to learn about innovative approaches to use AI in my courses and to teach students to use AI in my arts-integrated intro course.

Prompt for my image: black-haired blue-eyed fairy on a computer in the woods. (Inspired by research on Irish Banshee folklore)

James - e-Learning Support Manager at UF

2025-05-05 12:56:40 UTC

Hello! I'm James, the e-Learning Support manager at UF. I also teach First Year Florida. I enjoy playing pickleball, board and video games, bass, and hoarding cats. I'm excited to find ways to incorporate AI into our workspaces and teaching areas. I'm also excited to also be involved with Canvas's early adoption program with some AI initiatives.

Prompt: A younger bald man (the first one made me old!) with a black beard and surrounded by cats.

Cooper

CooperAI2UF — 2025-05-05 12:57:26 UTC

I am currently an AI Learning Development Specialist. Image created in Photoshop using an actual picture then a Neural Filter to adjust the style to a painting.

Jose Reyes - Clinical Asst. Professor Audiology

2025-05-05 12:57:41 UTC

I am a clinical assistant professor of audiology. I teach both undergraduate and graduate courses at UF in the department of Speech Language Hearing Sciences. I love working one on one with patients with hearing loss. I enjoy theme parks and basket weaving.

Prompt: Added thin Latino man with shaved head, short beard, in the style of a water color painting.

2025-05-05 12:58:28 UTC

Jason Frank

2025-05-05 12:58:39 UTC

SF Instructional Designer. AI Skeptic/Conscientious Objector. Film, Literature, Comics, Legos, and Live Music. I'm just posting a photo here because using AI, especially image generators, makes me deeply uncomfortable because of how they are trained.

alexsiwiecki — 2025-05-05 12:58:59 UTC

I'm Alex Siwiecki, an English professor with an MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction, from UF. I've been a professor for 10 years and vegan 22 years. I am neurodivergent and fighting my executive functioning this morning.

Bobby Hom

humhom — 2025-05-05 12:59:20 UTC

Hello everyone. I am Bobby Hom, a 30 year professor of humanities at Santa Fe College. I'm currently directing the college's Quality Enhancement Plan, which focuses on intentional implementation of faculty professional development to improve student success, retention, and engagement, especially populations traditionally underserved by higher education. I'm a UF alum, Emory University alum, husband, father, and cat owner

2025-05-05 13:00:37 UTC

Hi everyone! I teach math at Santa Fe College both online and in-person/hybrid. I like hiking with my dog and crocheting.

Prompt: Please create a watercolor portrait of a white women with wavy brown hair just past her shoulders. She has oversized square glasses resting on a large nose. She has a long oval face. She teaches math at a two year college and enjoys professional development about teaching and learning. She likes taking her rottweiler on hikes and crocheting.

Marin Smillov

2025-05-05 13:01:56 UTC

My name is Marin. This is a picture from my younger days. I teach philosophy, ethics, and logic. I am a skeptic about AI.

2025-05-05 13:03:05 UTC

2025-05-05 13:03:21 UTC

hi :) my name is shade, and i’m currently serving as the director of the learning commons, an academic resource center at santa fe. i was a photography professor before stepping into administration, and incorporated AI into my coursework around semiotics and visual analyses.

prompt: i am an alien creature with shoulder length dark brown hair and arm tattoos

Lex

2025-05-05 13:04:16 UTC

Hey my name is Lex Shelton, I’m a native of Gainesville, FL and a graduate of PK Yonge DRS as well a multi-time graduate of Santa Fe College. Ive owned my companies for over 15 years and I’ve been employed at Santa Fe College for a little over 12 years. I also spent about two years working at Microsoft. I’m a sportsman having played 5-6 sports at a high level as well as a gamer and technologist. I’ve also been in the tech, entertainment fields for a little over 20 years. Filmmaking is my passion as well as my career. I teach in the Fine Arts & Entertainment Technologies department specifically in the theatrical sound department. Random facts, I’m the youngest son of three, my parents are both left handed and none of us are left handed.

2025-05-05 13:58:49 UTC

Hi! I am Ale Maruniak, I teach biotechnology at Santa Fe College. Love all the lab work I teach every day. My education is in genetics, all done in Brazil. I love outdoors activities: kayaking and hiking.

Devon

2025-05-05 14:02:41 UTC

Hello, my name is Devon and I am a nursing professor from Santa Fe College. I am excited to learn more about AI, especially the ethical implications.

2025-05-05 14:08:16 UTC

Hello All, My name is David Therriault and I am a cognitive scientist. I work at UF's College of Education. I am interested in how cognition underpins (or doesn't) AI applications and how AI can be applied in educational settings.

Hi I’m Angie!

2025-05-05 14:08:19 UTC

My title is Faculty Development Instructional Designer at the CTLE at Santa Fe College. I spent 10 years in corporate learning and development. Before that I taught biology at Santa Fe and was a lab manager for the Watson center at Santa Fe. I have a MS degree in population genetics and worked at NIH for a few years studying type 2 diabetes genetics. I love to teach yoga, play guitar and hang out with my family in my free time.

2025-05-06 00:53:44 UTC

Mother to children and cats.

English Professor, since 2011.

Anxious. Mistake-maker.

Evolving.

Brittney.

2025-05-06 13:33:35 UTC

Hola. My name Is Javier Sampedro and I teach Latin American Humanties and Spanish at Santa Fe College. I encourage my students to recognize the challenges of using generative Ai as a research resource, and the ethical implications of generated media for the representation of cultural identities.