by Bernie Goldbach in Leiria, Portugal
I AM COMPLETING a short advanced programme with RUN-EU and started sharing my research methods with colleagues. I depend heavily on advice I got from Tiago Forte about the PARA method. The acronym PARA stands for Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. I believe this concept is best explained by Maggie Appleton in her Medium post "Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes".
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by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel
After one semester of integrating AI into my daily lab sessions, I can assuredly say AI has made a profound impact on the way our UX designers work. Leveraged purposefully, AI enhances creativity, improves personalisation, and trims workflows. As I review my early 2023 teaching practice, I want to offer a few observations about using AI while teaching creative media students in a university setting.
Without even coming close to ChatGPT, people can take some simple steps to ensure their use of AI can enhance accessibility. It starts with reviewing the alt-text tags that Microsoft generates inside programs such as Word and PowerPoint. Microsoft's AI technology tries to make digital experiences more inclusive by automatically creating text descriptions of images. The content creators should review that AI-generated content. To be truly accessible, web sites should have alt-text for images that are optimised for screen readers. This is happening behind the scenes already which means AI contributes to a more inclusive design approach. I'm a big fan of adding meta data to online folders and directories because those ReadMe files help me locate locations of files I've saved since the 90s. I've discovered the Markdown files I'm adding to OneDrive and Google Drive locations help me locate information faster when I ask the respective mobile apps questions by using my mobile phone.
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by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel
I'VE RESTARTED my daily flow with Notion as part of my Personal Knowledge Management, spurred on by Larry G. Maguire and helped massively by Sarah Brennan's excellent YouTube tutorials. I'm writing this blog post to remind myself I owe RedGregory at least five coffees because of her free templates and excellent online teaching style.
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by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel.
Image from The Emotion Machine.
MOST OF MY WORK with Artificial Intelligence has been in the field of Machine Learning. I teach students how to improve their online profiles so they enhance their prospects of gaining good jobs. And last semester, I introduced generative AI into classrooms to increase the speed of creating responsive web sites.
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by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel
IT IS GOOD PRACTICE to frequently change passwords and I'm publishing this blog post because I know some of my most loyal students read my blog more than they read my Insta.
I'm also trying to see if Microsoft Stream lets me play the Vyond video clip without imposing a major log-in burden.
And I'm proving to Claire Murray that I can step up to her challenge while attempting to (1) create a character library, (2) use motion path tracing, and (3) challenge the microphone array on the Microsoft Surface Book to produce high quality audio on the fly.
[Bernie Goldbach teaches digital transformation on the Clonmel Digital Campus.]
[1983 2FA]
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by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel with Rode, Otter.ai, and Surface Book.
I TAKE INVENTORY of my teaching and learning every May as we prepare the annual ICT in Education Conference. This year's theme, Reshaping Education, has me thinking about my personal teaching practice.
TL/DR; I read my own transcripts more.
Continue reading "Technology and Education and Me #ictedu" »
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by Bernie Goldbach talking to Surface Book in Clonmel
YESTERDAY a visitor from the Philippines landed on my website insideview.ie to read how my family wrote and saved ideas. I started thinking that I no longer have to actually write anything. I can just talk about things and my blog will write itself.
I can talk to my Surface Books' screen and it will create text from speech. This has digitally changed the way I work.
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by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel
I'M LETTING ChatGPT work away in one of my Chrome browser tabs. I value its conversational responses to questions I raise and I respect it more for the context it offers as part of its responses. Because of the length of its answers, I've moved around some money. I reckon I'm $17 ahead each month because of advice the AI gave me.
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by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel
MY BING MOBILE APPS started showing me AI-assisted results two days after I joined the waitlist. I'm using Bing AI conversationally while using my voice to ask questions about local points of interest.
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by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel
I'M TEACHING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION to a crew of Masters Degree student and we know it's difficult to automate everything. And automation probably doesn't work at all, perhaps with early childhood education.
And if you want to effectively integrate automation into manufacturing, you need to complete a granular breakdown of tasks, deciding which of the jobs can be done by a machine. Then you might need to spend thousands of euro designing a robot that may not work as expected.
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