by Julie Dirksen
So I had an interesting interchange with Josh Cavalier the other day. Somebody was posting about AI, and I offered up my experience with the accuracy and usefulness of AI in my own work. I said that when I’ve used AI to help with things, the usefulness has ranged from 20%-80% useful. Sometimes I can … Read more
Okay folks — I’m only doing this workshop publicly once this year. It will be a virtual workshop on October 9th, 16th and 23rd (2025) with my friends at LDA, and it’s one of my favorite things to do. If you haven’t already taken it, I wanted to highlight some of my favorite activities from … Read more
One of the things that has bothered me since the beginning of the AI conversation is that most of the discussions of using AI or LLM outputs contains some phrase to the importance of “evaluating the output to make sure it’s correct” or something along those lines. Pretty much any responsible writing about AI contains … Read more
So, it’s been relatively rare that my workshops are public offerings (open to anyone). That’s something I’ve been working to change, and now there are THREE new workshops available. Two virtual workshops and one in-person offering. I’ve also got some discount coupon codes for all you delightful folks, so feel free to reach out if … Read more
So a few weeks ago, someone posted a link to this video to one of my email lists. It’s from a youtuber who is using ChatGPT to learn things, and they had a series of prompts they shared to create a curriculum for learning to code in Python. It sounded downright amazing and magical. But … Read more
Someone just emailed me about getting into instructional design. There are a number of programs and academies have have sprung up for this (of variable quality), but it’s always good to start with free resources while you are just exploring, so here are few things that are available. Connie Malamed created a free resource for … Read more