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First, we hope you enjoyed the break! Fall weather is finally here (for now, at least—who knows), and so is the spooky season, so no one’s going to bother you for marathoning Tales from the Crypt again or openly eating a bag of candy you bought “too soon” for Halloween night. Hopefully, the brief break offered some reprieve from midterm grading and a pause before it’s time to prep for the close-but-not-so-close-but-kind-of-close-to-ending part of the semester.
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Now that you’re back on campus, come by the Faculty Hub to talk shop and share any plans you have for final project designs or class activities that keep the energy up beyond seasonal chocolate and perennial Pixy Stix (or banana Runts, because they’re the best).
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Coming Up in the Faculty Hub
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South Meeting Room in Dhall from 8:45 - 9:15 a.m. on Wednesdays
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🤖 October 15 - When AI Goes Bump in the Night
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💀 October 22 - Skeleton Crew: Teaching When You Have Nothing Left to Give
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👁️ October 29 - The Participation Séance: Summoning Life into the Classroom
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Our DHall breakfast group continues to meet weekly on Fridays at 9 a.m. If you are curious about AI or want to improve your AI literacy, please join us!
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It can be overwhelming to keep up with all things AI because there’s just so much happening all the time. For a curated snapshot of how AI ethics, policy, and governance debates have evolved, Associate Professor Casey Fiesler (University of Colorado Boulder) has built an excellent AI Ethics and Policy News resource. Though its last update was in September, it remains a valuable artifact for tracking AI-related news and a useful reference point for faculty considering how public discourse around AI shapes teaching, as well as for students exploring these ideas more broadly. Check out the spreadsheet here.
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In August, Andrew and I co-facilitated a workshop titled "Prompting Success with Generative AI in Teaching and Student Research" as part of an Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Summer Grant collaboration with Dr. Renée Jordan (Morehouse College), Dr. Celeste N. Lee (Spelman College), and Dr. Natasha K. McClendon (Spelman College). If you weren’t able to attend—or want to revisit the material—you can now access the workshop recording and workbook that the group created. The workshop explores how to design effective prompts, scaffold student research and writing, and align AI use with course goals. The workbook includes examples from our live activities (pp. 67–74) and many starter prompts and tips for working with different GenAI models. We hope you’ll check them out!
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We are always looking for new and exciting projects and collaborations. Feel free to contact us.
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