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

AI and you workshop for students -ideas, outline

Lesson plan to come: AI and you: how to use AI in your coursework Topics to cover could include: Ethical considerations – do you want to use AI at all (environmental impacts, privacy concerns, working conditions of trainers, etc.)  - privacy = UO’s version of copilot...

Portland Convention Center options for MLA 2024

Close to the convention center: Spirit of 77 - [although everyone should try to go to The Sports Bra, if they can!] Nong’s on SE Ankeny with outdoor seating: chicken/rice, ramen, and sandwiches. All veggie friendly. A bar that is near and dear to my family, a 15...

AI in classrooms

The assignment for 300 level chemistry students included extra credit using AI. See example. Emerging AI in scholarly writing from Oregon State librarians in early 2024 UCSD sources from Tricia Bertram Gallant, Ph.D. Google doc links for: * a rubric asking helpful...

Reacting to the Past librarian roles

The amazing Martha Attridge Bufton showed me how and has a librarian role for Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman. I made librarian roles for these short RTTP games. London 1854: Cholera Acid Rain in Europe, 1979-1989 The librarian roles have...

Undergraduate research award winners from 2023 featured in PSC

Come see the amazing work done by our award winning students in PSC:

AI assisted tools_April 2024

If you are reading this after 2024 and it hasn't been updated, assume everything has changed. A slide deck "Exploring Emerging Generative AI Tools" from the wonderful librarians a Oregon State University has a great summary of some of the AI tools available for...

revised advice for citing AI and LLM

APA has advice now: https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt Primary difference is to decide if you (the writer) can retrieve the content or not? If you can retrieve the content, cite it as a conversation with your AI of choice and this should look different...

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...

Recent Blog Posts by Annie

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....

crosswalk of active learning adopted for online and f2f

From ACRL in Spring 2021, this impressive crosswalk of active learning adopted for online (both synchronous and asynchronous) AND f2f with physical distancing. "Initiated by Dr. Jennifer Baumgartner at Louisiana State University and expanded collaboratively since,...

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