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Have just finished putting the final touches on the first episode in a new podcast series -- created using Audacity and AnchorFM -- that is intended to support the learning of students in my face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses from Fall 2022. . . WSTKS-FM Worldwide: Podcasts for Digital Collaborative Learning in the 21st Century. Here is a link for anyone who might find this of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01UohhFXXCI

Additional interesting apps for creating podcasts that are worth exploring further include:

RiversideFM -- https://riverside.fm/

Soundtrap -- https://www.soundtrap.com/

Headliner -- https://make.headliner.app/create

How to Start a Podcsat -- https://www.thepodcasthost.com/planning/how-to-start-a-podcast/

New Ed Tech Classroom YouTube Channel (Lots of cools stuff, including information on creating podcasts for and by students -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd6vizTYlSgpR6zJ8j5KiyA

Question #2: What is your favorite Power Automate YouTube channel? Chad Randall, who have I have leaned on heavily in my PA education, started me off with Reza Dorrani's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RezaDorrani/videos

Want to see what Power Apps can do? ICYMI, here is the eye-popping presentation by Christine Nguyen-Koelzer and Eddie Ngyuen-Koelzer on the Apps they have created: https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/There%27s+An+App+for+ThatA+Leveraging+Microsoft+PowerApps+in+a+University+Setting/1_hjj5tqf6 and attached is their handout that includes some getting started resources. You deserve to view this video.

AI Commons Bulletin 2/19/2025

🧠 AI Tools Soon to Decide How Much They Need to “Think”
Expect the answers from AI tools to generally improve over the next few months, as more of them incorporate “reasoning” into their process. These are models that can discern when a prompt is more complex and would require a multi-step reasoning process. OpenAI is starting this with ChatGPT soon.

Learn More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtwK3hBAjDY

📗 Five Generations of Intelligent Textbooks
Sosnovsky & Brusilovsky compile the literature on intelligent textbooks and organize five generations:
Engineered: AI-powered adaptive reading.
Integrated: Linked with external smart content.
Extracted: AI analyzes and structures knowledge.
Datamined: Tracks student engagement for insights.
Generated: AI creates content, questions, & chatbots
Learn More: Sosnovsky, S., Brusilovsky, P. & Lan, A. Intelligent Textbooks. Int J Artif Intell Educ (2025).

🚫 Guidance for Uses of AI Banned by EU’s AI Act
The EU regulates AI much more than the US does. When it adopted the AI Act, it banned “unacceptable risk” uses, but didn’t provide much explanation. A new report lays out examples, including manipulative, deceptive, and exploitative practices.

Learn More: https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/112367

⏳ Waiting 5-10 Minutes for an AI to Answer?! What?!
Deep Research is a newer function of Google’s AI, Gemini. You can ask it an extended question and it will break it down into parts, research each part (including multiple web searches), and write up a report you can download. It’s available both on the web and on Android. Additional $ required.

Learn More: https://youtu.be/IBKRyI5m_Rk

Bulletin items compiled by MJ Jackson and Sarah Freye with production assistance from Lisa Batchelder. Get the AI-Commons Bulletin on our Microsoft Teams channel, at aicommons.commons.msu.edu, or by email (send an email to aicommons@msu.edu with the word “subscribe”).

AI Commons Bulletin 3/12/2025

🔊 MSU IT Announces ChatGPT and Gemini “Coming Soon”
The new AI page on tech.msu.edu teases that Gemini and ChatGPT are “coming soon” But it is unclear if the applications will be available for purchase or if the campus community will have free access of the latest foundational models.

Learn More: https://tech.msu.edu/technology/ai/

✍️ Departments at Johns Hopkins Integrated AI into their Curriculum Development Process
It’s like experiential learning for faculty – integrate AI into a standard task that you need to do anyway. Also has a list of very concrete bite-sized learning objectives for learning to use AI, like: name 3 chatbots, start a chat, list 3 ways to make a better prompt.

Learn More: Khamis, N., et al. (2025). More intelligent faculty development: Integrating GenAI in curriculum development programs. Medical Teacher, 1–3.

⚙️ AI Tools Are Being Used for All Stages of the Scientific Research Process
This working paper gives quite in-depth description of several AI tools being used for each of step of the research cycle: (1) lit review, (2) generating research ideas, (3) conducting experiments, (4) generating multimodal content, and (5) conducting peer-review. Recommended to get a good lay of the land.

Learn More: Eger, S., et al. (2025). Transforming Science with Large Language Models: A Survey on AI-assisted Scientific Discovery, Experimentation, Content Generation, and Evaluation.

📈 Grammarly Acquires Coda: From Writing Assistant to AI Productivity
Grammarly, popular with students and educators as a writing assistant software, just purchased the AI productivity company Coda. While Grammarly has previously positioned itself as a teaching tool for writing, this acquisition signals a move towards an AI productivity platform.

Learn More: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/grammarly-acquires-coda/

Bulletin items compiled by MJ Jackson and Sarah Freye with production assistance from Lisa Batchelder. Get the AI-Commons Bulletin on our Microsoft Teams channel, at aicommons.commons.msu.edu, or by email (send an email to aicommons@msu.edu with the word “subscribe”).

A new D2L site has been started to help facilitate conversation about experiential learning given the Covid-19 pandemic. The site has discussion threads for laboratories, studio arts, field placements, and more. Self-enroll here: https://apps.d2l.msu.edu/selfenroll/course/1161791

Are you looking for a supportive, structured environment to help you complete your dissertation? The Dissertation Support Group may be for you. Start date depends on participant availability. To register: https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_86OJnMZkOnLAQMC Registration closes this Friday, June 11th

MSU University Communications has posted a great resource on guidelines for using generative AI. This guide is a great place to start exploring potential uses of AI in your instructional practice. Further, this guide offers some descriptions and explanations of terms you may have encountered, but are not fully sure of the meaning. You will want to keep this guide as a resource to share with others who are interested in AI, but don't know where to begin -https://comms.msu.edu/resources/use-of-ai -