{"id":1764,"date":"2020-10-20T12:05:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T17:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2020-10-22T13:21:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T18:21:20","slug":"innovation-foundry-to-present-at-virtual-educause-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2020\/10\/20\/innovation-foundry-to-present-at-virtual-educause-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Foundry to present at virtual Educause conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1761 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/10\/Creativity-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Amos Gutierrez (<\/b><b>\u2019<\/b><b>19)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adobe.com\/en\/publish\/2020\/05\/05\/how-abilene-christian-university-prepares-students-for-a-digital-future.html#gs.j77lij\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACU Adobe ambassador<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><b>Dr. Marisa Beard<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, director of educational technology and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/innovation_foundry\/category\/innovation-foundry\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Innovation Foundry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, will present at the virtual <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/events.educause.edu\/annual-conference\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Educause Annual Conference<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at the end of October. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amos and Marisa explore what creativity is, why it is important, and what ACU is doing to help students engage in the creative process. As stated in the presentation, &#8220;Creativity plays an important role in our lives both professionally and personally. It allows us to think differently, to discover more effective and efficient ways to work and serve others, to invent, and to solve problems. It is not an easy task to engage in the creative process, to try something new, to take risks, and to not fear failure, but it is a worthy task and a needed task.&#8221; Visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/innovation_foundry\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">blogs.acu.edu\/if<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to view the recording of their presentation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amos Gutierrez (\u201919), ACU Adobe ambassador, and Dr. Marisa Beard, director of educational technology and the Innovation Foundry, will present at the virtual Educause Annual Conference at the end of October. Amos and Marisa explore what creativity is, why it is important, and what ACU is doing to help students engage in the creative process. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}