Monday, August 14, 2023

School Librarians and AI - a Power Hour

AI generated image of girl in hoody with laptop in magical library

There is an online training session featuring expert Phil Bradley on 25 August 2023: School Librarians and AI - a Power Hour. Cost is £35.
"This Power Hour will attempt to sort the facts from the fiction. You’ll learn how to use ChatGPT (and its competitors Claude and Bard) effectively and gain an understanding of prompt engineering and ChatGPT plugins. Phil will demonstrate some of the AI search tools that are appearing and discuss how internet search is changing. You’ll also have the opportunity to take a look at some of the other tools in the AI world, which will enhance your creativity, and make your working lives easier. You’ll see tools that will help create written content, presentations, avatars, videos, images and more, and get a clear idea of how best to use them. At the end of the hour delegates will have gained a good overview of how AI can be used in school libraries, how it’s evolving and lists of tools that can be used to supplement and assist you in your workplace activities. It’s a perfect short cut to get you on top of AI quickly and effectively. The session will be recorded, and you will have access to it for three months."
Book at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/school-librarians-and-ai-a-power-hour-tickets-681485400177

Image created in haste by Sheila Webber with Midjourney AI. Prompt was AI, librarians, power, Phil Bradley --ar 16:9 - I tried "schools" instead of "librarians" and that was just creepy, with "librarians" it's difficult to get away from books (but I thought that was better than creepy children), and I added "cute" to get away from sinister, vast book lined spaces that are about to swallow you whole. At least this looks vaguely jolly-wizard-school

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Here's the current advice from MLA, APA and Chicago styles about citing AI:

MLA Style Center
APA Style
Chicago FAQ
and
Chicago follow-up

And NoodleTools explains differences among MLA, APA and Chicago styles:
Noodling Blog
https://www.noodletools.com/blog/citing-ai/


best,
Debbie Abilock
NoodleTools/NoodleTeach