During the Fall 2024 Generative AI PDC, Meredith Reference Librarian Jake Vaccaro demonstrated several generative AI tools that can be used for research. Watch the demo below to learn more about these tools, and feel free to contact Jake Vaccaro. Links to the tools discussed:
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During the Fall 2024 Generative AI PDC, Instructional Designer Paul Keys demonstrated how to create a custom GPT chatbot to act as a course virtual tutor for students. Watch the demo below to learn how. The Spring AI PDC is ongoing! We’d love for you to join us. Contact Paul if you would like to
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Infobase Learning Cloud has published a ton of great professional development courses over the last year! From advanced courses on classic topics like Excel to newer interest topics like AI, there’s definitely plenty to check out. These are all self-paced courses free to the campus community. Use them for your own professional development or pull
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The new MyMeredith intranet platform is live! Please explore the platform to see what great new features are available. Logging in What will you find on the new MyMeredith? The old version of MyMeredith is still around to view but all content will be migrating over to this platform. What you will find here is the newest,
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The IDAT Services team helped provide a Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Professional Development Community this Fall semester. Paul Keys from IDAT, StrongPoints Director Emily Caldwell, and Reference Librarian Jake Vacarro facilitated the PDC over five sessions held every two weeks, both in person on campus and virtually via Zoom. Over 15 faculty and staff signed
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You need to build a form but where to build it? We have multiple campus form tools for different purposes so check out the details of each form option to decide. Google Forms Google Forms is the most available and easy to use form option. All faculty, staff, and students with a Meredith email address
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Shared Google Drive folders are a fantastic resource on campus. They facilitate committee work, allow a shared space for department files so they aren’t deleted on a personal computer (oops!), and keep things organized. Permissions get tricky though compared to a personal Google Drive. Now we have not just ourselves to worry about, what are
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Most tech companies these days are rushing to join the AI bandwagon and Zoom is no exception. Zoom has been working on their AI offerings for much of the past year now and they have several useful tools in their suite that users can enable to make their meetings more productive. We’ll cover a few
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Many companies have added the option to set pronouns to display within their systems. These must be manually set by you the user and can be changed or removed at any time. In each system, you will type in your own pronouns as opposed to choosing from a set list. Jump to: Adding pronouns in
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