Adventures of an instructional librarian
Explore the nuances of AI integration in higher education and the digital realm, highlighting the necessity for conscious engagement with indistinguishable AI involvement. Addressing the blend of AI-generated and human content, the author advocates for visual cues to make AI’s role discernible, underscoring transparency in an increasingly machine-generated world.
Discover how the RODE Wireless GO II isn’t just a gadget—it’s a revolution in teaching technology. Compact yet powerful, this microphone system transforms any space into a stage for clear, professional audio capture, enhancing my presentations and ensuring no student misses out, no matter where they are.
Explore the growing concerns and debates around ChatGPT’s role in academic peer-review processes. This insightful piece delves into real-world examples of AI-generated content being submitted without attribution, raising questions about the effectiveness of current review systems and calling for heightened vigilance to preserve the integrity of academic publishing.
In this post you will see a preamble for the 2023Â Enriched Mini-Courses Program (EMCP). It is something I had designed for the orientation day on April 30, 2023. I felt that it was important to create a road map for students and their parents with learning outcomes and to place … Read more
If you’ve been following my blog lately, you may have noticed that I’ve been discussing Chat GPT in my recent posts. This artificial intelligence chatbot is capable of comprehending and responding to prompts from users, though it’s not without its flaws. I personally find it fascinating to experiment with and … Read more
The influx of AI writing tools, such as ChatGPT, in higher education, has sparked a sense of upheaval in the academic world. This trend has been widely covered in higher education news sites and blogs (mine included), including the recent announcement from OpenAI about a new classifier aimed at differentiating … Read more
As I explored the capabilities of ChatGPT, I put it to the test by tasking it with generating an annotated bibliography entry for a well-known work, Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed“. To my surprise, it delivered a satisfactory entry in just 20 seconds. However, I decided to challenge ChatGPT … Read more
These days we all have cellphones. No matter what kind of phone you have, we all follow a similar pattern. When our battery gets low, we plug them in and charge them back to 100% (or whatever level we need to get through until our next charge). Over time the … Read more
It seems that I’ve drunk the proverbial Kool-Aid or maybe a better analogy, I took a bite of the forbidden apple. In 2018, I made the life-altering switch from Android to Apple, a decision almost as controversial and polarizing as one’s political stance. Ok, this might be a bit dramatic … Read more
For years I have wanted to build my own gaming computer. I hate to make excuses but at the end of the day, things just never materialized. There are a lot of factors, but most of those involved being a student. My undergrad lasted from 2005-2010, my college degree from … Read more