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AEJMC Conference, San Francisco - 2025

I’ll be at AEJMC in San Francisco all week talking about teaching with GenAI tools, leading workshops, and even showing my first peer-reviewed paper (!). If you’re around, swing by and say hey! Here’s where I’ll be:

• Wed, Aug 6 (10–12:30pm): Shaping AI-Generated Imagery for Campaigns – hands-on Advertising Division pre-conference workshop
• Wed, Aug 6 (2–3pm): Prompt to Production: A GenAI Creative Pipeline – Visual Communications keynote at the pre-conference
• Thurs, Aug 7 (5:15–6:45pm): Your AI Podcast Study Buddy – AEJMC Teaching Awards Recognition
• Sat, Aug 9 (8–9:15am): Prompt to Pipeline: Teaching the AI Creative Pipeline – my first peer-reviewed research paper presentation!
• Sat, Aug 9 (1:15–2:30pm): Best Teaching Practices Panel – presenting my AI Podcast teaching tool.
• TBD: Innovations in Teaching presentation – sharing two GenAI classroom innovations and receiving the Dr. Sandy Utt Excellence in Teaching Award

Come nerd out with me about pipelines, prompts, and pedagogy. It’ll be fun!

Fall Semester - 2025

• M/W/F - J449.01 - Design of Online Content / 8:30 - 9:20a / SJMC 219
• M/W/F - J449.02 - Design of Online Content / 9:40 - 10:30a / SJMC 219
• T/TH - J553 - Motion Design / 11:40 - 12:55p / SJMC 222
• T/TH - J560 - Capstone Portfolio / 1:15 - 2:30p / SJMC 221

Office Hours

• Monday, 11:00a - 1:00p / SJMC 235
• Thursday, 10:00 - 11:30a / SJMC 235

Recent Stuff

Your AI Podcast Study Buddy

An AI-generated study podcast used to reinforce core concepts in a 200-level visual communication course. Developed using NotebookLM and NoteGPT, this accessible tool boosted student comprehension and engagement, with measurable test score increases. Winner of AEJMC Best Practices in Teaching Award.

GenAI Workshop Series

A five-part teaching framework for prompt engineering, visual influence, and image-to-video pipelines. Features the GenAI Triangle of Influence model. Accepted as a peer-reviewed AEJMC conference paper, Innovations in Teaching awards, and featured in an academic book chapter. I'll post a link to this once it's published!

Courses I Teach

• Immersive Presence
• Mobile Augmented Reality
• Motion Design
• Design of Online Content
• Principles of Visual Communication
• Capstone Portfolio Development

Previous Stuff

Jeopardy: Interview Question Edition!

A customizable, interactive game to engage students in developing and practicing their interview skills to help land their first jobs. You can download the source files here.

Piranesi's Worlds

Part multi-player videogame, part art-history lesson, and part wearable museum, Piranesi’s Worlds offers a unique use-case for how VR technologies can accelerate unique and experiential learning. The experience represents an innovative approach to historic site interpretation as well as traditional methods of art history while rendering the rare, immersive work of 18th century Italian artist, Giovanni Piranesi, in an accessible virtual experience.

Let's Get A Job!

Getting that first job is difficulty; let's do it together. Jason, a seasoned creative turned educator, talks with creative professionals about how they got their first job and the things they wish they knew when they did. Let's Get A Job! is a deep dive into the "how and why" of creative industries as told by the folks in them. More than practical career advice, it’s a look behind the curtain revealing a story of shared journeys, spectacular failures, horrible clients and fulfilled dreams.

Olive, It's Trash!

An Augmented Reality enhanced children's picturebook that visually describes imaginative narratives between the verbal-visual lines of bed-time stories.

Jason the Website

I used to work in Advertising, VFX, and Video Games