Generative AI with U-M GPT: This hands-on, interactive workshop introduces faculty and staff to U-M GPT, U-M’s equitable, accessible, and secure text-based Generative Artificial Intelligence tool, and provides an overview of the 60+ ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today Book Guide. During the workshop, attendees will learn how to craft effective GenAI prompts and try out chatbot teaching activities from the book guide.  … Continue reading Generative AI with U-M GPT »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. Perhaps Buddha put it best when he was asked, “What have you gained from meditation?” Buddha replied, “Nothing! But let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, and Fear of Old Age and Death.” What you … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Join us for an immersive session on “Calmness” the 2nd of the Five C’s of well-Being: Contentment, Calmness, Compassion, Courage, and Clarity. These principles form the foundation of psychological balance, emotional wellness, and mental clarity, leading to a life filled with happiness, fulfillment, and purpose. Calmness refers to a state of stillness resulting in tranquility. This is a prerequisite for inner peace.The heart becomes calm … Continue reading Unlocking the 2nd Cornerstone of Well-Being: Calmness »

Have you ever wanted to include images, charts, or other content from third-party sources in a manuscript and wondered: Do I need permission? How do I obtain permission? From whom? What do I do if I can find or contact someone to request permission? If so, this workshop is for you! In this 50-minute session offered by the U-M Library Copyright Office we will cover … Continue reading Copyright Permissions »

Why are today’s students increasingly averse to taking academic risks, and how can educators help them overcome this challenge? This workshop dives into the root causes, from the lasting impacts of COVID-19 to economic uncertainties to the pressure of standardized testing. Participants will be given the opportunity to discuss current trends in student behavior and share strategies for addressing risk-averse behaviors. By fostering resilience and … Continue reading Challenging Today’s Students to Take Academic Risks »

Learn how to use Overleaf to create and format your LaTeX documents and to manage your citations. An introduction to document creation using LaTeX, a typesetting program used by engineers and mathematicians to create technical documents with ease, and Overleaf, a collaborative online LaTeX editor. In this workshop we will: Create a LaTeX document from a template Learn about a number of important LaTeX packages … Continue reading Introduction to Overleaf and LaTeX »

Boosting Teaching and Work Productivity with Generative AI: Ready to transform your teaching and work tasks and free up valuable time? Join our interactive workshop and discover how Generative AI (GenAI) tools can streamline your approach to teaching tasks, work tasks, course data, and administrative tasks. Get ready to boost your productivity and gain more time to engage with your students!  Level: Intermediate/Advanced Recommended Prerequisites: … Continue reading Boosting Teaching and Work Productivity with Generative AI »

Have you ever wanted to include images, charts, or other content from third-party sources in a manuscript and wondered: Do I need permission? How do I obtain permission? From whom? What do I do if I can find or contact someone to request permission? If so, this workshop is for you! In this 50-minute session offered by the U-M Library Copyright Office we will cover … Continue reading Copyright Permissions »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. Perhaps Buddha put it best when he was asked, “What have you gained from meditation?” Buddha replied, “Nothing! But let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, and Fear of Old Age and Death.” What you … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Getting Started with U-M Maizey: Do you want an around-the-clock assistant for your data, such as Canvas courses or cloud files? It’s possible with U-M’s Maizey GenAI tool! In this workshop, the benefits of Maizey will be explained- ranging from indexing a Canvas course to personal Google Drive or Dropbox files. This workshop will demonstrate a step-by-step process of setting up a Maizey project, as … Continue reading Getting Started with U-M Maizey »

Spark your Digital Creativity! Curious about Generative AI and how it’s integrated into Adobe products? Learn how to write descriptive prompts to quickly and easily generate extraordinary image content with Adobe Firefly, Adobe Express, and DALL-E 3 in U-M GPT. No experience is needed. As a reminder, Michigan is an Adobe Creative Campus which gives students, faculty, and staff access to Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe … Continue reading Leveraging Generative AI to Create Imagery »

Classes are incorporating more and more multimodal projects that ask students to produce final products that are public-facing. Accessibility is an essential component to creating digital content available on the internet. It is important that instructors are incorporating accessible design into their teaching and requirements of public-facing projects. This session will cover what accessibility is, why it is important, and guidance on what to teach … Continue reading Digital Accessibility Considerations for Public-facing Student Work »

Generative AI in the Classroom (Pt 1): This workshop is designed to equip faculty with the necessary skills and knowledge to begin integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence into the classroom setting and considering its impact on students and instructions. Suggestions for discussing GenAI with students and guidance on writing a GenAI syllabus statement are explored in this workshop. This workshop also offers ideas for designing assignments … Continue reading Generative AI in the Classroom, Pt 1 »

An introduction to how to use LaTeX, a typesetting program used by engineers and mathematicians, via Overleaf, a LaTeX editor, to create and format your dissertation. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to: Use the U-M LaTeX dissertation template Manage your dissertation citations in LaTeX via Overleaf Implement general LaTeX tips and tricks Get personalized help from a librarian Note: U-M has recently enabled faculty, … Continue reading Dissertation Formatting with Overleaf and LaTeX »

Data articles are a type of publication where researchers can share detailed information about a data set. In this workshop, you’ll receive an introduction to data articles, what information is included in them, and how they differ from traditional journal articles. We’ll also look at some examples to give you a sense of what it might take to write one. This session is designed for … Continue reading Increase The Impact Of Your Data: An introduction To Writing A Data Article »

How can instructors create an environment that fosters resilience? This session will explore the non-cognitive factors that promote motivation and resilience, focusing on how students’ beliefs about themselves, their feelings toward school, and their self-regulation skills shape their learning experiences. We’ll show how fostering a growth mindset can redefine failure into a valuable opportunity for growth, empowering students to embrace challenges and take academic risks. … Continue reading Creating a Learning Environment that Fosters Resilience »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. Perhaps Buddha put it best when he was asked, “What have you gained from meditation?” Buddha replied, “Nothing! But let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, and Fear of Old Age and Death.” What you … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Accessible course materials play an important role in creating an equitable learning experience for all students. Accessible documents are ones that are available to all viewers and interpretable by assistive technology such as screen readers. In this session, you’ll learn how to structure documents with headers, use styles for consistency and meaningful structure, choose accessible colors or fonts, choose meaningful link text, and save a … Continue reading Creating Accessible Text Documents »

In advance of the deadline for applications to the Rackham International Research Awards (Feb 15), this hybrid session will offer general guidance for students and scholars who are planning to conduct research in archives, libraries and other cultural institutions abroad. The instructors will focus on identifying collections and materials of interest, gathering required documents and permissions for access, making contacts with local experts and institutions, … Continue reading Preparing for Research Abroad »

Encouraging students to take risks on assignments and activities can be a real challenge in an environment where students are so focused on getting an “A”.  Research has shown that there are practical applications that faculty can use to help students develop a growth mindset in their approach to learning and take risks in a format that resembles a research activity instead of a rote … Continue reading Practical Applications for Encouraging a Growth Mindset and Risk-taking »

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of … Continue reading Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word »

Master the Art of Prompting with U-M GPT: Learn to prompt effectively using U-M GPT by exploring techniques for GenAI prompt engineering. This workshop offers hands-on activities and advanced applications in conversation manipulation and creative AI interaction. Dive deep into conversational prompts, rephrasing prompts, prompt style and tone, inserting text/data, and much more on your way to becoming a master of AI prompt engineering.  Level: Intermediate/Advanced … Continue reading Master the Art of Prompting with U-M GPT »

Accessible course materials play an important role in creating an equitable learning experience for all students. But how do we do it? In this session, you’ll learn how to create more accessible images (including best practices for charts and diagrams) and video by considering alternative text, color and contrast, sizing, captioning and transcripts, and even the tools we use to create and share our content. … Continue reading Creating Accessible Images and Videos »

Tailoring U-M Maizey: Your Personalized Digital Assistant: Want a customized assistant for your data? Elevate your Maizey skills as we dive into the craft of ‘system prompting’ within the U-M Maizey interface. System prompts allow users to personalize how their Maizey will interact with end users, giving a Maizey project a custom persona. This workshop will also explore how to customize the temperature and chunk … Continue reading Tailoring U-M Maizey: Your Personalized Digital Assistant »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. Perhaps Buddha put it best when he was asked, “What have you gained from meditation?” Buddha replied, “Nothing! But let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, and Fear of Old Age and Death.” What you … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Are you working on or considering beginning a systematic review, meta-analysis, scoping review, or other literature review project? Learn to use the software Covidence, which is free for U-M faculty, staff, and students (and any project collaborators from other institutions). Covidence can help you: Deduplicate your literature search results set Share your literature search results with your collaborators Keep track of your inclusion decisions while … Continue reading Introduction to Covidence: A Systematic Review Software Tool »

Join us for an immersive session on “Compassion” , the 3rd of the Five C’s of well-Being: Contentment, Calmness, Compassion, Courage, and Clarity. These are states of Being and form the foundation of psychological balance, emotional wellness, and mental clarity, leading to a life filled with happiness, fulfillment, and purpose. Compassion is a feeling of genuine concern for others and a desire to spontaneously help … Continue reading Unlocking the 3rd Cornerstone of Well-Being: Compassion »

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of … Continue reading Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. Perhaps Buddha put it best when he was asked, “What have you gained from meditation?” Buddha replied, “Nothing! But let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, and Fear of Old Age and Death.” What you … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Start the New Year by setting a goal to enhance your mental well-being through meditation. Discover three simple techniques—relaxation, rejuvenation, and meditation—in just three master classes. Relaxation brings your body into a calm, steady state, fostering physical stillness and preparing the mind for meditation. Rejuvenation clears the mind, helping to release stress and complex emotions, leaving you feeling light and refreshed. Meditation is a mindful … Continue reading Learn to Meditate in 3 days »

Classes are incorporating more and more multimodal projects that ask students to produce final products that are public-facing. Accessibility is an essential component to creating digital content available on the internet. It is important that instructors are incorporating accessible design into their teaching and requirements of public-facing projects. This session will cover what accessibility is, why it is important, and guidance on what to teach … Continue reading Digital Accessibility Considerations for Public-facing Student Work »

Accessible course materials play an important role in creating an equitable learning experience for all students. Accessible documents are ones that are available to all viewers and interpretable by assistive technology such as screen readers. In this session, you’ll learn how to structure documents with headers, use styles for consistency and meaningful structure, choose accessible colors or fonts, choose meaningful link text, and save a … Continue reading Creating Accessible Text Documents »

Accessible course materials play an important role in creating an equitable learning experience for all students. But how do we do it? In this session, you’ll learn how to create more accessible images (including best practices for charts and diagrams) and video by considering alternative text, color and contrast, sizing, captioning and transcripts, and even the tools we use to create and share our content. … Continue reading Creating Accessible Images and Videos »

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of … Continue reading Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word »

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of … Continue reading Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word »

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of … Continue reading Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word »

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of … Continue reading Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word »

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of … Continue reading Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word »

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of … Continue reading Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word »