Making science librarianship wonderful

“We all know that when people don’t know something, the 1st person they ask is a friend …, so everyone should be friends with a librarian” – J. West

Teaching journal articles in the classroom

Undergraduate strategy 1: Intro and how-to in gen chem - Video, slides and canvas quiz questions about reading journal articles in Chemistry class a: Starts with an intro to what a scholarly article is (and isn't), continues with a Canvas activity asking students MC...

prompts in AI for finding themes from open ended answers

used August 2023 in ChatGPT 4.0 (your milage may vary!): prompt: you are an academic librarian at a public research university look for themes in the comments I will paste when you tell me to begin. each comment is numbered consecutively. consider the different themes...

command prompts that have worked

This is useful: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6654000-best-practices-for-prompt-engineering-with-openai-api and some good prompts here as well - both her blog and a video. [Also about using Obsidian and zotero, which I'm going to have to tackle soon] some...

Generative AI playground early summer 2023 edition

Librarians and AI article that seems useful for defining some of the big topics right now in Choice. From that article, there is a link to at least 1 more libguide with useful links I have used ChatGPT for a few things: -Generating a cover letter for a friend...

syllabus language for an AI world

TEP at UO has these lovely ideas as well - click on expand when you get to the Sample Course Policies New UO Student Conduct code is here! Highlights are summarized in a letter - they include definitions of plagiarism and mention of AI, found in Section IV of the new...

Using AI in the classroom_part 1

Assume that this will likely be an embarrassing post in just a few months, this is still what has caught my eye so far: Using AI to generate ideas for student topics, getting students to learn how to use prompts effectively and also getting beyond that first idea from...

How to cite AI_part 1 (revised)

A student asked how to cite/use AI ethically. Specifically, they asked (and I am paraphrasing here)" "If I use ChatGPT or other AI tools for brainstorming and making test files - like having it write code for a project to generate some random sequences and introduce...

How to paraphrase_part 2

My notes are on an earlier post. Some of them were synthesized into the modules below. For Chemistry: slides video - part 1 and part 2 and quiz questions saved here as .pdf files for each question, message me about a canvas transfer For a professional masters degree:...

Revising the scientific poster

Based on the wonderful work of Mike Morrison as a graduate student, here is material for the better scientific poster. The long video overview is worth watching. Have you seen folks taking photos of posters on their phones? If so, Rayne Viegar and Andrew Wang have...

Lateral reading and SIFT: additional readings

Breakstone, J., Smith, M., Connors, P., Ortega, T., Kerr, D., & Wineburg, S. (2021). Lateral reading: College students learn to critically evaluate internet sources in an online course. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review....

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Teaching journal articles in the classroom

Undergraduate strategy 1: Intro and how-to in gen chem - Video, slides and canvas quiz questions about reading journal articles in Chemistry class a: Starts with an intro to what a scholarly article is (and isn't), continues with a Canvas activity asking students MC...

prompts in AI for finding themes from open ended answers

used August 2023 in ChatGPT 4.0 (your milage may vary!): prompt: you are an academic librarian at a public research university look for themes in the comments I will paste when you tell me to begin. each comment is numbered consecutively. consider the different themes...

command prompts that have worked

This is useful: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6654000-best-practices-for-prompt-engineering-with-openai-api and some good prompts here as well - both her blog and a video. [Also about using Obsidian and zotero, which I'm going to have to tackle soon] some...

Generative AI playground early summer 2023 edition

Librarians and AI article that seems useful for defining some of the big topics right now in Choice. From that article, there is a link to at least 1 more libguide with useful links I have used ChatGPT for a few things: -Generating a cover letter for a friend...

syllabus language for an AI world

TEP at UO has these lovely ideas as well - click on expand when you get to the Sample Course Policies New UO Student Conduct code is here! Highlights are summarized in a letter - they include definitions of plagiarism and mention of AI, found in Section IV of the new...

Using AI in the classroom_part 1

Assume that this will likely be an embarrassing post in just a few months, this is still what has caught my eye so far: Using AI to generate ideas for student topics, getting students to learn how to use prompts effectively and also getting beyond that first idea from...

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