Pre-Workshop Videos & Activities

This workshop consists of a small amount of instruction so that most of the scheduled time can be devoted to interactive practice with various Generative AI (GenAI) tools. This allows participants to learn to use key features of these GenAI tools for research purposes and indirectly for general productivity. Some of the GenAI tools included in the active learning portion of the workshop are:

• Microsoft CoPilot (UVic licensed) (general purpose)
• Perplexity (general purpose)
• ChatGPT (general purpose)
• Google Gemini (general purpose)
• Semantic Scholar (literature reviews)
• Elicit (literature reviews)
• Research Rabbit (literature reviews)

To be ready to jump right into the interactive activities during the workshop, please watch these short videos beforehand:

• Generative AI Overview (3 min)
  

• Generative AI & Academic Integrity at Texas A&M University (5 min)
  

• Generative AI in Education (7 min)
  

• What different types of Artificial Intelligence (AI) & how Generative AI relates to other forms of AI (10 min)
  

OPTIONAL: Test H5P powered video hosted by Lumi - A 360 Library Tour (5 min)

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