During Spring 2025, we are shifting to Ed Tech Teas and an afternoon, with a focus on all things AI. Join us for opportunities to explore new applications and practice ways to use the tools effectively. Bring your laptop and enjoy a cup of tea, snacks, and exploration.
Our discussions will focus on critical and creative use of AI technologies. We will start each session with an overview before diving into the exploration. We are using the MLA Student Guide for AI as guidance.
Join us to learn and experiment in community. Please indicate your interest in this Google Form.
All sessions will be from 3:30-4:30, at different locations across campus.
The most up-to-date information can be found on the ITS calendar.
Spring 2025
- April 1: Amplify
Explore our new AI platform, Amplify! Get an overview of how to log into the new platform, navigate the Amplify interface, and how to choose your AI model and its settings. (Don Vosburg and Wiebke Kuhn)
Ed Tech Tea Panopto video
Location: Anderson 036 - April 8: Prompt Development
Come learn about the latest best practices on developing generative AI prompts, and learn how to create a prompt template in Amplify. (Don Vosburg and Wiebke Kuhn)
Ed Tech Tea Panopto video
Location: Sayles Hill 251 - April 15: Chatbot aka AI Assistant Development
Chatbots, or AI Assistants, are becoming increasingly popular. You can customize them with some general instructions and provide them with your own materials to draw from when answering prompts. Join us to learn about Chatbot creation, and create one of your own in Amplify. (Don Vosburg)
Ed Tech Tea slides (sorry, no video)
Location: Willis 114 - April 22: Notebook LM
Discover how NotebookLM, Google’s AI-powered research assistant, can help your workflow by transforming your documents, audio files, and YouTube videos into concise summaries and interactive podcast-style discussions. One way to use it is to record a meeting and turn the recording into a transcript or summary. (Don Vosburg, Wiebke Kuhn)
Ed Tech Tea Panopto video
Location: Gould Library 306 - April 29: Using Gemini for Editing and Analysis
Generative AI can help you with editing your emails and reports for specific audiences and tone. It can also help with outlining reports and analyzing documents. Join us to practice these skills with primarily Gemini. (Wiebke Kuhn)
Ed Tech Tea Panopto video
Location: Weitz 026, the IdeaLab - May 6: Image and Video Generation with Generative AI
Image and video generation work differently from other generative AI tools, and they have come a long way since the first, publicly available, DALL-E model. Hands now (usually) look like real hands, words in images are (more often) spelled correctly, and the short videos are quite stunning and convincing. Bring your ideas and your laptops, and we’ll explore some AI image and video generation tools including Gemini or Adobe Firefly. (Wiebke Kuhn and Dann Hurlbert)
Location: Boliou 161 - May 13: Playing with OpenLLaMa and DeepSeek
OpenLLaMa and DeepSeek are two generative AI models that can be installed and run on a local computer, without the need for an internet connection to use the tool. Learn with us what the advantages and limitations are. We will use the computers in the IdeaLab for this session. (Wiebke Kuhn, Randy Hoffner, Don Vosburg)
Location: Weitz 026, the IdeaLab - May 20: Google Labs
Google has been working on integrating AI throughout its entire suite of applications. Their innovators develop new AI-infused tools on a regular basis. Check out what is currently happening in Google Labs, including a Google Career Coach. (Wiebke Kuhn)
Location: Hasenstab 002 - May 27: Zoom AI Companion
Zoom AI Companion allows for summarizing your Zoom meetings and some other features. How does it work? What are your concerns? What do you need to consider if you want to use this feature or if you are in a meeting where someone else is using this feature? (Dann Hurlbert, Wiebke Kuhn)
Location: CMC 209
Winter 2025
- January 9: Tech Tips for Winter Term
Join us for an hour of leveling up your various instructional technology tools. Whether you are using Moodle, Gradescope, Poll Everywhere, Hypothes.is, Adobe Express, Google applications, or want to figure out what AI tool may be useful, the AT team will be available to help. Bring your questions and your laptop! (The AT team) - January 16: Engaging Students with Poll Everywhere
Carleton’s Poll Everywhere user community is growing. Join the community conversation to learn about ideas on how to use this response system, and how to level up in its usage. Bring your laptop, and be ready to share some of your own tips and strategies. (Don Vosburg) - January 23: Digital Whiteboards for the Classrom and other Collaboration
Carleton’s default digital whiteboard tool is now Zoom’s whiteboard. Is that the best option for what you need? Join us for a discussion of options and learn where we are in the evaluation process for choosing a new digital whiteboard option. (Don Vosburg) - January 30: Adobe Express and Flexibility in Student Assignments
All students, faculty, and staff have access to Adobe Express. This easy to use web-based application creates opportunities for flexible submission formats.(Don Vosburg, Wiebke Kuhn) - February 6: Airmedia Wireless Presentation: Adding Flexibility to Your Classroom
Most of Carleton’s classrooms now have wireless projection capability through the tool Airmedia. When connected, you can move through the classroom, and you can also ask your students to share their screens. Join us for a quick guide on how to use the technology and why to use this technology. (Paul Bernhardt, Bryan Reed, Wiebke Kuhn)
Location: Anderson 329, starting at 11:55am - February 13: Providing a Space for Project Management Practice
Students are increasingly interested in learning project management principles to help them with managing all their group work. Learn about several readily available tools and resources to help them help themselves; Github, Trello, customized Google Apps are three different approaches. (Paula Lackie) - February 20: JSTOR’s New AI Research Assistant
JSTOR has unveiled a new suite of AI research tools that allows users to summarize documents, discover new topics and resources, and converse with a chatbot all on the JSTOR interface. Come learn about and test out these new features and discuss what impact these features may have on students’ research.(Claudia Peterson, Head of Reference & Instruction; Sean Leahy, Reference &Instruction Librarian for Social Sciences and Data)
Location: Gould Library 306 - February 27: Panopto Deep(er) Dive
Panopto, Carleton’s lecture capture system, integrates seamlessly with Moodle and Zoom, and is an effective way to create and host videos for your classes and websites.Attendees will learn how to record, upload, trim, caption, index, and share your instructional videos. You’ll also see how students can use the tools to easily search and review your video content. If you’ve considered offering quick course updates, creating short lessons, providing lecture review material, or even flipping your class, this session may be for you. (Dann Hurlbert) - March 6: Using Poodll for Language Exercises
Poodll, integrated into Moodle, allows for language learning practice, gamification of language learning. Stop by to learn how you can use the tool. (Carly Born, Em Palencia)
Location: LDC 243
Fall 2024
- September 19: Alternative Grading Options in Moodle
Join us to explore how Moodle can be a tool for alternative grading strategies. What are you envisioning for your ungrading, specifications or standards grading, or contract grading?
(Carly Born and Em Palencia) - September 26: Setting up Successful Hybrid Meetings in Zoom
Many of us are still using Zoom almost daily. What are some of the recently added features that can make our Hybrid and Online Meetings even better? (Dann Hurlbert)
Location: Laird 013 - October 3: Showcasing Carlsites
Getting started on a website for your research or for a class project can seem daunting. We have developed a Carlsites Showcase to illustrate how you can use Carlsites. (Em Palencia) - October 10: Using Zoom for more than Video Conferencing
While Zoom is currently a popular video conferencing tool, it offers other tools or use cases that can be helpful in teaching. For example, you can create quick screen captures of how to work through software, use a built-in whiteboard, and have fun with avatar and creative background features. (Dann Hurlbert) - October 17: Adobe Express
Carleton offers Adobe Express licenses to all students. Join us for a basic overview of Adobe Express’s functionalities, from basic web design to quick video editing. (Doug Foxgrover) - October 24: Tools for Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling has become a popular alternative to learning activities solely focused on writing. ATs can help with developing assignments and instructions for podcasting, web-based multimedia presentations, infographics, and videos. What do you imagine is possible in your course? (Doug Foxgrover and Wiebke Kuhn) - October 31: Evaluation of 2 choices for Language Learning (in Moodle)
Language Lesson, a tool that allows for students to record themselves so that faculty can provide targeted, recorded feedback, has been a valuable tool for many years, but it is a difficult tool to maintain. We are searching for an alternative. This session showcases the two options we have identified that align best with faculty needs. Bring your laptop to play with the options and provide us with feedback. (Carly Born and Amy Hutchinson)
Location: LDC 243 - November 7: Thinglink – Creating Immersive Virtual Tours on the Fly
Thinglink is a tool that allows for relatively easy ways to create immersive virtual tours with connections to deeper content. How can you imagine using such a tour or map for your course? Join us to explore. 5th year Amelia Leonard will join us to talk about her ThingLink use on the Cannon River project, too: https://medhieval.com/classes/deepmapping/northfield-public-library-present-intro/ (Dann Hurlbert) - November 14: It is Fall 2024: What are Generative AI tools capable now?
The speed with which generative AI tools have been improving over the last 2 years has been impressive. What is the current landscape of AI tools? (Don Vosburg and Wiebke Kuhn)
Spring 2024
- March 28: Google Tips for the New Term
Spring term has started; stop by for a refresher on how Google Calendar can make your life easier, Google Sheets can be more efficient for you, Google Presentation design can be more fun.
Location: Anderson Atrium - April 4: Strategies to Handle Google Storage
Google storage comes in different flavors. Our email can take up significant amount of space, our Google Drive can become unwieldy, and if we then also take advantage of the Google Drive application that allows for a connection between Google Drive and our local computer, things can get really complicated. Join us for some strategies on how to manage your digital files so that you can find what you need, when you need it. (Paula Lackie) - April 11: Adding Interactivity to your Moodle Site with H5P Content
If you have dreamt about adding interactive exercises to your courses, like a hotspot exercise, arranging items in sequence, filling blanks on an image, creating a timeline, H5P can help you with making your dream come true. Check out the examples H5P provides. (Carly Born) - April 18: OER and OEN
Open Educational Resources, like textbooks and workbooks, are valuable to use in courses, both for instructors and students. What is an open educational resource and how can I find them? Carleton is a member of the Open Educational Network (OEN). Come learn about OEN and other open textbook resources. (Lisa Pillow, Sarah Calhoun, Brenda Hellen, Christopher Eaker) - April 25: How Grammarly, Gemini and ChatGPT can Help with Writing – Or Get in the Way
The free version of Grammarly has become a very popular tool for helping with writing of all sorts. How useful has it been for students? What other writing tools are available to Carleton students (and faculty and staff)? (Melanie Cashin, Kristen Vogel, Wiebke Kuhn)
Location: Library 306 - May 2: AI at your Fingertips: What can you use on your Laptop and Smartphone?
What AI features are already available to you on your laptop or smartphone? How does it make sense to use them – or not? Bring your devices and let’s play and discover! (Don Vosburg, Dann Hurlbert)
Location: Hasenstab 002 - May 9: Using Generative AI to Create Games for Learning
We know that game and play are important components for learning. Developing these resources can be time intensive. Let’s experiment how generative AI tools like Gemini and ChatGPT can make this work easier. (Don Vosburg, Dann Hurlbert)
Location: Hasenstab 002 - May 16: GPT-4 as a Language Partner
Practicing a language with a human is one of the best ways to gain more confidence in speaking – but sometimes scheduling makes this tricky. Creating simulations for students to practice outside of tutoring hours, using generative AI tools, can provide one more option for practice. Simulations can also be helpful for practicing debates, or job interviews. (Don Vosburg, Amy Hutchinson)
Location: LDC243 - May 23: Creating Interactive Timelines
Timelines can be powerful tools for making processes and histories more visual. Join us for exploring Knightlab’s timeline tool – how can you use this in your courses or projects? (Em Palencia)
Winter 2024
- January 11: IdeaLab Open House
Check out the newly reformatted IdeaLab, with both individual and collaborative learning spaces, plus a VR corner. - January 18: Gradescope
This session will focus on a review of the Gradescope app for students, as well as the online assignment option for Gradescope, and how to create auto-graded questions. (Don Vosburg) - January 25: Content management and sharing in ArcGIS Online
This session presents content management and sharing options in ArcGIS Online for effective uses in teaching and collaborative research. How to create the various content types in ArcGIS Online is not addressed in the session. (Wei-Hsin Fu) - February 1: Poll Everywhere
Already familiar with Poll Everywhere and poll creation? This session will review some of the more advanced options of activity creation and configuration in Poll Everywhere, including sharing activities, building teams, adding images and timer to activities, and template creation. Check out the recording of the video if you could not make it(Don Vosburg) - February 8: Zotero
Join us for tips and tricks how to use Zotero, the online citation management tool. Check out this guide to get started. Some cool features covered included importing references from the Gould Library, adding notes and tags to references, and for imported full-text pdfs, highlights and annotations also appear in your notes. (R&I Librarians Sarah Calhoun and Adam Lewis) - February 15: Capturing handwritten notes and board work
Gradescope app, Notability, Rocketbook (Carly Born, Don Vosburg) - February 22: Level up in Moodle with Moodle Forum types
Use, display options, groups – check out a summary of the different Moodle Forum types. (Em Palencia, Carly Born) - February 29: The Storytelling and Tech involved in Creating Audio Podcasts with Audacity
Pew Research reports that in the last decade, the number of American adults listening to at least one audio podcast a month jumped from 13% to 43%. Creating engaging podcasts is not only an effective way for students to synthesize information, it’s also a skillset that can benefit them in their lives beyond Carleton. This session walks attendees through some podcast preparation and introduces recording and editing skills using Audacity. Bring your laptop, and consider downloading this Tips Sheet and the Audacity software in advance. For a summary of this session, check out Podcasting with Audacity. (Dann Hurlbert)