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Links and handouts 2024

 

 

Dec 09

 

Dec 04

 

AI & Research

  1. Comprehensive list of AI Research Tools. (Part of a very useful larger collection of AI tools)
  2. Perplexity Example - researching conversion narratives
  3. Anna Mills: Critical Introduction to AI Research Tools (ppt) 
  4. How to use Perplexity, one of the most popular research tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoWdogtZRw8
    Worked examples: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/i-m-a-student-aiming-to-excel-aTtxMnL0QnGJRAMD_C8e8w
         Tip: ask tools like perplexity for help refining your research questions, refining your lines of inquiry/analysis, and try
    going "meta," asking it the best ways to ask it questions in order to generate the results you want.  

 

RSS - Escaping the Algorithms, Reclaiming Attention, Curating Your Reading Experience 

  1. If AI and ad-tech merge, consider downloading open source LLMs for use on your desktops? 
  2. Cory Doctorow:  You should be using an RSS reader. "The one thing you can choose to do that will make your internet
    life better and make     life better and make the internet better for everyone else, too."
  3. Clive Thompson: How I Use RSS To “Rewild” My Attention 
  4. RSS: how to find the RSS feed for almost any site or social media platform. Example: "To find the RSS feed for a Substack newsletter,
    simply add "/feed" to the end of the newsletter's URL; for example, if the newsletter is "yournewsletter.substack.com", the RSS feed
    would be "yournewsletter.substack.com/feed" 
  5. My new Inoreader account - set up example below 

 

 

BlueSky Starter Packs - Alternative Model of Platform Governance? 

  1. VOX: "a clearer, sunnier social media age is dawning" "Like old Twitter, your feed is not ruled by an algorithm. Meanwhile, Bluesky’s
    open source, decentralized framework gives you a lot more control over how your feed works     than X or even Threads, the X alternative
    Meta has been pushing onto Instagram users."  
  2. BlueSky Starter Packs Library. Can use to follow collections by people we read this semester, or about them.
    Search by topic, author name, text name, etc.
  3. Sample starter packs: Rhetoric,  A.I. in Education, A.I. substack writers, A.I. CRITICAL Voices, Critical A.I. Substack writers,   
    LAW AND AI, AI Ethics Starter Pack AI Artists Starter Pack, Queer Data,  Gender, Race, Colonialism, & Technology
    Oxford Internet Institute Starter Pack – AI and tech solutions. AI Literacy  Critical Data / Critical AI   
  4. DIGITAL GOVERNANCE AND ALTERNATIVES/SOLUTIONS, Digital Public Goods   AI Tech Leaders
  5. JUSTICE & DATA "Badass folx working somewhere in the large space at the intersection of data science and social justice.
    Topics may include the criminal legal system, education equity, environmental justice, diversity and inclusion in arts/media,
    health care equity, and more." 

 

 

Nov 20

 

 

Nov 18

 

 

PSA Nov 13

  • Proposals - you can improve existing grade. Final version of proposal/paper due 11/20.
    Show me some analysis. This does not need to be polished. Think of it as a stepping stone, progress report, proof of concept. 
    There will be time in class to work on this. Reminder about CODEBREAKER.

  • Bluesky Starter packs. If considering moving from X or lessening activity, they list people you're following so
    others can see who might add (I'm cheesegrommit). Sadly we don't have the data rights and interoperability
    rules we deserve and need. If we did, platforms would have to actually compete and serve their users.
    Could also consider Threads (Facebook). 

 

Nov 13 Tufekci, Hassan, Free Speech and Extremism

 

 

 

 

Nov 06 Metaphors and Critical AI Literacy

 

 

Nov 04 Online Community 

 

 

Oct 28 Critical Digital Literacy 

 

 

 

Oct 23 

 

Oct 21 

 

Of potential Interest:

  • NZ’s GovGPT chatbot is an "example of how to do trustworthy AI." They’ve "taken a page out of Anthropic’s playbook"
    by following what is called constitutional AI, a "method for aligning general purpose language models to abide by
    high-level normative principles written into a constitution. Anthropic’s language model     Claude currently relies on a constitution
    curated by Anthropic employees. This constitution takes inspiration from outside sources like the United Nations
    Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

  • Working paper from the CCCC/MLA Task Force on AI and Writing https://aiandwriting.hcommons.org/working-paper-3/.  
    This document includes contributions from across the Humanities, including the TESOL International Association, Two-Year
    College English Association, College Language Association, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Council of Writing
    Program Administrators, International Writing Center Association, Association of Research Libraries, CCCC Second
    Language Writing Standing Group, Association of Language Departments.
  • PMLA published this collection of work on AI and the Humanities. It is free and open access until the end of the month. It provides
    a kind of big picture look at how people are thinking about AI and education across the Humanities. 

 

 

Oct 07

  1. Final paper ideas (slides) 
  2. A brief video promo of Hari's text designed for TikTok and a podcast using Hari's text as the knowledge base
  3. Podcast based on my Algorithms, Bias, & Critical AI Literacy slides  (esp 3.20)
  4. Study guide and essay questions with answers 
  5. Feeding NotebkLM unsealed legal filing from Trump court case and making a podcast  Reddit conversation interesting.
    Some people feed everything from the US Budget to contracts to terms of service on apps.
  6. JSample student creative work: Jaren Jeorge Raquel, "Creating Video, Music and Art with AI Tools" and Daniel's band promo Experimental Lovers 
  7. Rick Sanchez singing "Handlebars." Flobots (original song)
  8. TOOLS: NotebookLM and HeyGen. Open source alternative to NotebookLM.  ElevenLabs AI voice generator
  9. Instructor's random creative explorations and (draft) prompt library
  10. Creative/writing and LLMs: WritingWithAI Reddit group; writers group on Reddit. LLama forum discusses AI and writing.
    AI and technical writing Reddit group, Marketing.
  11. Group Work! 


CUSTOM CHATBOTS

  1. Poe Chatbot for basic rhetorical analysis. Uses my first year OER textbook as knowledge base  

  2. ChatGPT Custom chatbot help with basic rhetorical analysis of arguments using OER textbook as knowledge base.
    Requires paid ChatGPT account.       

  3. How to make a custom chatbot using Poe that includes a knowledge base via uploaded file(s).

  4. How to make a custom chatbot with ChatGPT (only available with the paid version.) Can include knowledge base 
    If you wanted to you could upload examples of your own writing and use this to generate new text.  

  

Oct 02

  1. 411 Student writing assignments 
  2. Prompt Design Basics, Models, Examples. See also Damji, “Best Prompt Techniques" 
  3. Formative feedback models for writing essays - worked examples
  4. Summary of common prompt types. 
  5. Library of prompts and prompt guides (draft)

 

Popular Prompting Resources

  1. The Mollick’s prompt library 

  2. AI for education prompt library 

  3. https://teachingnaked.com/prompts/ Good list of prompts and prompt resources

 

 

Sept 30

  1. Google doc Thompson discussion questions and final paper brainstorming 
  2. Medium - for both new writers and established ones. Flat fee subscription model means you can read anybody, and you
    can write, read, subscribe, follow, bookmark, comment, highlight, reply to others, create a library, get recommendations, etc. 
    Substack is similar but used more by experienced writers who already have an audience, or freelance writers who need some
    income to work. Some writers give free access, some require paid subscriptions. So established authors with pre-existing
    followings tend to prefer it.

    Medium lets you form writers' collectives. This is a great idea if you don't want the burden of writing all the time,or writing
    alone: https://medium.com/@localfutures. There are also book clubs who write about texts they are reading.

    Many writers from the course are on Medium, E.g.  Clive Thompson, Sacasas, Doctorow.

  3. Resources on annotation, social bookmarking, and Hypothes.is.  More examples
  4. Hypothesis at SDSU (Dean)   

 

 

Sept 25

  1. Guidelines for short writing exercise 1
  2. Short writing exercise 2 
  3. OCR version of Sundiata (so can upload or paste to an  AI platform)  
  4. Analyzing Sundiata: AI prompts and results
  5. Analyzing President Trump's CPAC speech: AI prompts and results 

 

Sept 23

  1. Final paper ideas (powerpoint)
  2. Experimenting with writing and memory 
  3. Powerpoint on Ong, orality, convergence culture 
  4. Group Google doc work - analyzing orally composed texts  
  5. The "Weave" (full video, just Weave section)   

 

 

Sept 09

  1. Algorithms, Bias, & Critical AI Literacy 

  2. Group work O'Neill and Anders 

  3. Anders and Speltz, "How to Teach with Generative AI: Guide and Resources"

  4. Stable Diffusion Bias Explorer Hugging Face. Lets you "explore the bias of image generation
    models through the lens of professions."  

 

Sept 04

  1. Slides - more potential project ideas, and introducing Mollick, Caplan, and Marche 

  2. Mollick supporting evidence links: survey of AI experts/technologists, survey of economists, and AI Impacts, program most authors belong to.

  3. Group work - discussing texts, preparing for group presentations and discussing shared final paper ideas. 

  4. AI's that protect data privacy. Use SDSUid to login to Copilot at https://copilot.microsoft.com. "User and organizational data are protected.” 
     Claude.ai: “Models are trained to respect privacy based on principles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

 

August 28

  1. 18 Months Working and Teaching with A.I. (ppt)
  2. Class group work Google Doc  

 

August 26

  1. Overview of RWS411 (ppt, slides)
  2. Introductions and in-class activities 
  3. Student Writing Google Drive 
  4. Homework for 08/28 - potential final paper/project topics 

 

 

Past links

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This document included contributions from representatives from additional organizations including the TESOL International Association, Two-Year College English Association, College Language Association, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Council of Writing Program Administrators, International Writing Center Association, Association of Research Libraries, CCCC Second Language Writing Standing Group, Association of Language Departments 

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