Join the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology for ICON Day 2025. Jeffrey Kontio, EdD, will deliver the keynote, "What You Do Matters: Designing for Real Access in Real Classrooms," focusing on the role of instructors and instructional designers in creating engaging learning environments while helping to frame accessibility as something that benefits all.

Kontio is a digital accessibility expert, lecturer in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, and the IT manager for the Politics Department at Princeton University.

• 8:30 to 9 a.m.: Breakfast and Registration

• 9 a.m.: Welcome from Tiffini Stevenson Earl, JD

• 9:15 a.m.: Presentation of CAFÉ Barista and ICON All Star Awards

• 9:30 a.m.: Keynote: Jeffrey Kontio, EdD

• 10:45 a.m.: Break

• 11 a.m.: Lightning Talks: All About Captions – Michael Espey, OTLT; Getting Started with Note Depot – Jeremy Dietmeier, OTLT, and Ross Miller, AIS; Introducing the ICON Course Wizard Tool – Jesse Nicholson, OTLT; SITAs: Help with ICON Sites, PDFs, and Anything Else – Holly Soboroff and the SITAs, OTLT; and Support for Accommodated Testing – Laura Sinn, DOE

• 11:45 a.m.: Lunch (provided in The Vue)

• 1 p.m.: Workshops (choose from Anthology Ally or Student Voices Panel)

• 1:50 p.m.: Break

• 2 p.m.: Workshops (choose from TEA: Advanced Course Accessibility or ICON Q&A)

Thank you to our campus partners—including the College of Education, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Distance and Online Education, Office of the Provost, Tippie College of Business, and University Libraries—for supporting ICON Day 2025.

The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences research, ICON, teaching and learning data, and advanced classroom and instructional technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa.edu.