Right mute it then pull it out check check one two check one two one two Yeah, lay minister Tom Boykoff will be working that See Please join in a moment of silent centering and please join in our in gathering him number 184 it's printed in your order of service Good morning Welcome to first Unitarian society of Madison This is a community where curious seekers gather to explore spiritual ethical and social issues in an accepting and nurturing environment Unitarian universalism supports the freedom of conscience of each individual as together we seek to be a force for good in the world My name is John Powell and on behalf of the congregation. I'd like to extend a special welcome to visitors We are a welcoming congregation.  We celebrate your presence among us Newcomers are encouraged to stay for our fellowship hour after the service and to visit the library Which is directly across the Adrian model from the auditorium Bring your drinks and your questions and members of our staff and lay ministry will be on hand to welcome you You may also look for persons holding teal stoneware coffee mugs These are members knowledgeable about our faith community and they would love to visit with you We welcome children to stay for the duration of the service However, because it's difficult for some in attendance to hear in this very lively acoustical environment Our child Haven and commons are excellent places to retire if a child needs to talk or move around The service can still be heard from those areas and speaking of noise This would be a very good time to shut off any electronic device that might go off during the service It takes a lot of Volunteers to run the service each morning and we'd like to acknowledge our volunteers this morning Our sound operator is Peter Daly lay minister Tom Boykoff our greeter Patty Reardon Usher's this morning and Ostrom Marty Hollis and Nancy Daly Coffee is being served this morning for hospitality by Chip Quaid and Biss Nitschke Care for the puppet pulpit palms by John twos and our flowering offer this morning from Kennedy Gilchrist Please note all the announcements in the red floors insert in your order of service we want to point out one announcement and Put together another announcement this morning, of course we welcome singers from Madison's Festival Choir Directed by Bryson Mortensen They'll sing excerpts from Tchaikovsky's all-night vigil settings of Psalms and other sacred writings from the Russian Orthodox liturgy and the Festival Choir will be in concert here in the Atrium Auditorium Saturday, November 1st at 7 30 in the evening One other announcement to the FUS youth group water interns are raising funds to help people in specific International communities obtain access to clean water So the weekend of October 24th at 25th and 26th rather 50% of the service offerings will be used to fund small-scale clean water projects Selected by the youth group and if you wish to donate directly to the project Please address checks to the First Unitarian Society of Madison with Water Justice Project Written in the memo area Again welcome, we hope that today's service will stimulate your mind touch your hearts and stir your spirit Our opening words are from the 12th century Sufi poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi This being human is a guest house Every morning a new arrival a joy a depression a meanness Some momentary awareness comes in as an unexpected visitor Welcome and entertain them all even if they're a crowd of sorrows who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture Still treat each guest honorably He may be clearing you out for some new delight The dark thought the shame the malice meet them all at the door laughing Invite them in be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond I Invite you to rise and body or in spirit for the lighting of our chalice And if you will join with me in reading the words of affirmation printed in your program to be open to new truth Respectful of all opinion Patient with all people this is our religion To speak responsibly To choose wisely to act deliberately These are the marks of a free fate We come together seeking not only comfort and support But the stimulus we need to become the best persons possible And now on this bright and sunny October morning Please turn and exchange a warm greeting with your neighbor. Please be seated once a month We generally set aside a few minutes at the beginning of the hour for the sharing of joys and sorrows This is a time for members friends and even visitors to our congregation to relate to the entire gathered community Some special event or circumstance that has affected your life or the life of someone close to you in recent weeks or months General announcements news items and particularly in this election season partisan appeals are discouraged during joys and sorrows And so for the next few minutes anyone who wishes is invited to step to the front of the auditorium Light a candle and either of the candle arbor is to my left or my right and then using the microphone Provided by our lay minister share your name if that feels comfortable as well as your brief message Please note that our services are live cast to a larger audience So listeners are not restricted to those who are sitting in this room You may also step forward and wordlessly light a candle of commemoration and then simply return to your seat And so now I open the floor for the sharing of these important and personal matters of our lives And I'd like to begin lighting a candle for Deb Mies who is a coordinator of religious education here at First Unitarian Society and Deb lost her mother last week as in Arizona for the funeral right now so if you'll My name is Ruth and I'm lighting a candle for two purposes for a colleague of mine Whose mother died a couple weeks ago and for my very dear uncle who suffered a significant fall this week My name is Karen and I would like to light a candle for my mother-in-law Elizabeth who is being released from the hospital on Tuesday My name is Don and I'm lighting this candle for the Edgewood High School boys cross-country team Which yesterday at Lake Farm Park? When their second southern badger conference title and as you can tell I'm a little horse Because I was cheering him on I'm Nancy Vetterschultz and I have two joys one to be singing with the festival choir this morning Please do come to our concert, which will be wonderful And my second joy is that I just spent not the last week with the week before with my daughter at Well, if I said it was a meditation retreat you would have the wrong idea We were ecstatic for five days. We weren't quiet and comfortable We were just joyful and I'm I Continue to bring that into my life and I'm so happy about that few of you may know that I'm a career water scientist But my joy is working with the youth group eight Fantastic interns from the youth group have been working on a water justice Project, we've been working very hard for the last couple of months preparing posters and getting ready for Service where we'll be collecting monies for that very worthwhile project. So it's been a tremendous joy for me working on this very important project and I would like to light a candle for a very good friend of mine who is having heart surgery this week and Or if you would like one more candle to represent all of those Unexpressed joys and sorrows that may have occurred to you as others were speaking. We hold those with equal concern in our hearts I invite you to join me in the spirit of meditation From many places and many conditions of the spirit we come today Seeking a center for our lives and a sense of greater wholeness From dry places where words and knowledge seem broken into brittle fragments that do not cohere From overfilled places where information abounds, but there is no real depth of understanding From hard places where feelings are dulled and From lonely hollow places where meaning seems thin Here in this caring and supportive community and in this time of quiet reflection We come to be emptied of all the clatter all the confusion of the information that we once thought was all sufficient emptied and Then filled with the spirit that flows in and among us and that can be for us a reliable source of solace and Insight in this time of quiet let us center our spirits Ground our being That we might find that power that already lies latent within power for love power for creativity Power for hope and power for transformation and given this brief reprieve from the daily pressures of life May we learn once again to appreciate that every inch of space is a miracle that every instant is a wonder and An opening for new opportunity at this very moment then May our hearts be open to compassion Our minds open to wisdom our spirits open to grace May it be so Amen, and now as we Sing our next Tim 322 verses 1 2 and 5 we invite any children who are present to depart for their classes Thanks, please be seated Once upon a time a little being was sitting by a stream sighing sad and just a little bit frightened and At the same moment as fate would have it Solomon the wise old owl happened to be flying just overhead And during his many years of watching over the well-being of the forest for all the creatures living there Solomon had been of assistance in quite a few situations similar to this one Solomon knew that he could help this sad little being if she wanted him to and so with a turn of his head and a Slight banking of his great wings he swept down and landed ever so lightly alongside a small log On which the little being was seated And to make sure that his arrival was not too startling he began speaking quietly to her even before he had finished folding back his wings My my little one he said in the most gentle tone What on earth could be making you feel so sad? But the little one didn't even look up from the ground let alone speak and so Solomon just acted as though She had answered him and continued on in the most congenial manner. Oh, yes He said yes, for sure. I know exactly how you feel And again he waited for her to at least acknowledge his presence, but still Nothing You know he said There are times when it helps to speak with a friend about one's troubles Especially if that someone happens to know something about them which And he paused just long enough to make sure he had her attention which it just so happens.  He smiled into hers And she must have seen something in his face because she took a deep breath and began to speak All I want she said is to be happy with myself Is that asking for too much the other creatures they seem content with themselves? But this feeling never seems to last for me something always comes along to spoil it And then dropping her head into her little hands. She cried. What on earth is wrong with me? Well, nothing is wrong with you little one Solomon replied, but I do suspect then why she interrupted him Why do so many little things bother me? How come no one seems to understand or appreciate me for who I am and Then and then there is this terrible need to prove myself to everyone not to mention fear that Solomon had heard enough he stepped into her stream of thought hold on just a moment little one Let's not get ahead of ourselves If I'm to help you understand the sorrow of yours, and I'm pretty sure that I can don't you think that we should Introduce ourselves Wouldn't that be a good place to start and without waiting for her to agree. He said my name is Solomon Pleased to meet you. What's your name? Realizing that he was right the little being gathered herself up and sat up straight and said in a small voice My name is someone Really said Solomon now, isn't that an interesting name were you given that name at birth? I Really don't recall she said timidly. I don't think so Well, then how did you come to be called someone who gave you that name? Actually, she said it's it's a little bit foggy But one day one day I found myself wandering through some deep woods, and I remember Wondering at the time how I'd gotten there and and even who I was And then realizing how confused her story must sound to this complete stranger She glanced up at Solomon to see his response, but but he didn't seem surprised at all And so after another deep breath she continued on It was right about then that I had the good fortune of bumping into a very helpful crow by the name of Magnus And he must have known me from some place before because when I told him about all of my confusion He was kind enough to tell me my name And then managing a small smile. She looked at Solomon again waiting for him to smile in return But if he was happy he wasn't showing it Hmm. He said Yes, just as I suspected His tone troubled her I Think I see your problem. I know why you're not able to get along with the other creatures in the forest And what's what's keeping you from being happy with yourself? Well the little being wasn't at all sure that she liked where this conversation was headed She had no interest in hearing Solomon remind her of what she already knew But then after a moment she asked anyway The unintended sarcasm in her voice startling her and just what would that be? Solomon paused choosing his words carefully and finally he replied in measured gentle tones little one You've been lied to About your name Your name is not what you have been told Of all the answers that she could have imagined this was the least likely She felt a jolt a small shock pass through her her heart raced in uneven beats and then catching her breath She swallowed hard and asked what on earth do you mean? I was lied to about my name if my name isn't someone Then what is it? Your real name Solomon replied is Everyone thank you my friends for gifting us with your lovely music Well among their regular contributors to the New York Times op-ed pages, which I read religiously There are a few that routinely peak my curiosity that capture my interest On the other hand I find Paul Krugman to be somewhat repetitive Maureen Dowd rather a cervix David Brooks disingenuous Gale Collins entertaining, but just a little too glib at times But on the other hand I am seldom disappointed with the columns that Charles blow offers up And I suspect that's because blow somehow seems to me to be more authentic than the others that he's more willing to share Something of his own life journey his own inner life with his readers And at no time was that more clearly evident than a month ago when a piece appeared In which blow wrote of the struggles that he had had throughout his life coming to terms with his sexual identity And in that column adapted from his memoirs this esteemed African-american journalist spoke candidly about what it had been like to discover and then try to cope with his bisexuality My world he said had told me that there was nothing worse than not being all one way That any other way was the same as being dead and Blow in that column spoke openly of being sexually abused as a child of Painful attempts to fulfill his desires of the self-flagellation and moral confusion that followed those attempts of His failed first marriage of his repeated refusals to own up to his bisexuality because of the stigma associated with it dishonest dishonorable Scandal prone and disease-ridden that is how the larger culture regards it blow wrote But then in his maturity and after considerable Experimentation and introspection blow does come to terms with the ambiguity of his true nature.  I Would have to learn to simply relax and be complex be twist in between and Absolutely all right What does it mean to be authentic? Charles blows personal narrative affords a vivid and courageous example And while it is by no means necessary to emulate his exercise in self-disclosure Authenticity does require us to recognize and to accept Unflinchingly the truths that are unique and particular to us It means that one must learn to be comfortable in one's own skin less affected by other people's opinions And blow admits that he himself was terrified of taking this step because as he put it when you cease to wrap yourself in artifice You are naked you are vulnerable But he continues vulnerability is the leading edge of truth For Charles blow becoming authentic was a long drawn-out process requiring that he be ruthlessly honest with himself and completely devoted to the enterprise The process is somewhat analogous to that by which a piece of ancient Chinese porcelain or a newly discovered piece of music Or an ancient manuscript is authenticated Is it the genuine article? Can we prove what it purports to be that it's not just a clever copy? People that undertake this kind of investigation are highly trained. They know what to look for They appreciate the weight that their verdict will carry it can take years to establish the authenticity of such artifacts But this isn't something that many of us really appreciate we convince ourselves that it is not all that difficult to be authentic It's just simply a matter of being ourselves giving free reign to our feelings and our thoughts Let it all hang out That was the expression that people used in the 60s and 70s an ethos that still prevails with some users of today's social media But this kind of uninhibited and unreflective self-disclosure bears little resemblance to authenticity Which always requires some very serious self-scrutiny Who am I? I mean really who am I? That age-old question is where the process starts And it's the title that Yifu Tuan attaches to his memoirs Born in mainland China to upper-class parents Educated in England at Oxford Yifu Tuan distinguished himself as a cultural geographer here at the UW Madison For all of his academic brilliance all of his outward success Yifu Tuan had great difficulty Finding himself ascertaining what it meant in his case to be authentic He recalled being a doctoral student at UC Berkeley and his advisor routinely described him as an Englishman with a Chinese face Which only added to his confusion and so it was announced to the world he writes that I wore a mask While my fellow students had no need of masks. They enjoyed a firm grounding in culture and society In other places Yifu Tuan expresses regret about the absence of a loving partner He never married or of children of his own close friends in his life And to the question who am I the best answer that he can give is I am a geographer In most other respects Yifu Tuan remains something of a mystery to himself But in admitting that he's probably being more authentic than many of us Now as a synonym for integrity Authenticity is clearly an admirable trait to possess and taken in this context the word connotes wholeness the possession of an undivided personality the outward acts and appearances of a person reflect their underlying beliefs and their sentiments their inner self what you see is what you get we say of a person with integrity and So an authentic person is therefore trustworthy someone with whom we know what to expect and So defined the principle doesn't need to be justified its value would seem to us to be self-evident But Charles blow an Yifu Tuan aside This is not how authenticity is often understood in understood in popular culture and and there have been therefore those who find the concept to be very vexing and the pursuit of authenticity problematic Simon Critchley for instance is a philosopher Jameson Webster a psychoanalyst and in a jointly written article Entitled the gospel according to me these authors complain that something of a cult of authenticity has Emerged in recent years by virtue of a highly successful marketing campaign by the self-help industry And as a result they say the quest for authenticity has displaced other more meaningful and socially beneficial endeavors Personal well-being they say has become the primary goal and rather than being the byproduct of some collective project It has become an end in itself What happens when authenticity is overvalued well for one thing it can lead to a kind of solipsism an unhealthy reliance on our own Individual judgment as to what is proper and meaningful and relevant and even truthful and so authenticity The authors warn Needs no reference to anything beyond itself indeed It does not require a belief in anything that might transcend the living of one's own independently conceptualized and adjudicated life The phenomena Critchley and Webster criticize is Hardly a new one For several generations now Americans have insisted on doing their own thing or in keeping with Joseph Campbell's advice following their bliss Troubled by the authenticity the artificiality of the surrounding culture and Unreceptive to the conditions that culture imposes and the claims it seeks to make upon them Disillusioned people have increasingly been walking to the beat of their own drum And this pattern actually goes back much further than Joseph Campbell or James Dean and his rebel without a cause Benjamin Anastas traces it all the way back to the early years of the 19th century and dear old Ralph Waldo Emerson and His essay self-reliance, which is arguably the most influential essay that he ever wrote Most men have bound their eyes with one or another hankerchief Emerson wrote and they have attached themselves to Communities of opinion and this conformity makes them not false in a few particulars. It makes them false in all particulars a Man must carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral, but he trust thyself Every heart vibrates to that iron string Now Emerson may have had good reason for staking out this rather extreme position Because social and religious customs exerted a profound influence over individuals in the early 19th century much greater than in more recent times Too much cow-towing to society and to elders have tamed Americans of their natural gifts and sapped them of their courage Emerson suggests and so he urged his countrymen to shake off their shackles and walk as they were meant to without skulking with a swagger in their step and In this light in this light Emerson's admonitions Do make a certain amount of sense but his apathems Emerson's sayings have been repeated so often in the last hundred and fifty years that they have begun to seem to many of us like natural law and Thus we are reluctant reluctant to challenge those principles of self-reliance and authenticity that the sage of conquered imparted to us as his legacy and Yet we need to remember that these principles as important as they might be are not absolute and they should be subjected to certain qualifications like etiquette for instance etiquette a prerequisite for any aspect of civilized life the rules of etiquette constrain Limit the free and open expression of one's thoughts and feelings and opinions for the sake of some overriding social political or spiritual interest We cannot insist on complete authenticity in the public square or in the sanctuary if we expect to live in relative harmony with one another Judith Martin She wrote the column Miss Manners for the Washington Post for many many years She's a recognized expert in this area and she offers in terms of etiquette the example of a Deliberative body where representatives have to argue over contentious issues Now convention dictates that legislatures must disagree respectfully that they must couch their remarks in polite phrases such as My distinguished colleague seems to be unfortunately misinformed Now if that same lawmaker wished to be authentic he or she might say something much more harsh and Thus making a reconciliation of differences that much less likely That such etiquette is essential in our political institutions was underscored in 2009 when President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress and it was televised and I can remember this well and He was heckled by South Carolina's representative Joe Wilson you lie Wilson shouted when the president made a point with which he took exception and it was such an egregious violation of etiquette of Protocol that his colleagues formally rebuked Joe Wilson His South Carolina constituents on the other hand seemed to appreciate his candor Re-electing him handily the following year Etiquette Judith Martin writes Resembles the law in that both require both of them regulate social conduct in the interest of community harmony It recognizes that people may sincerely harbor a great many thoughts a great many feelings that if they were expressed would cause social disruption now this observation is consistent with the complaint that most critics lodge against authenticity that it can excuse preoccupation with the private self and its own projects and to the extent that a person prioritizes his or her own ideas and interests social solidarity can suffer But real real authenticity is different. It needs to be different and it is achieved real authenticity By becoming aware of the contingent nature of the self and its inescapable participation in a web of mutuality Sasha reminded us of this in her sermon of last week when she she suggested that no one can be a whole person By him or herself in the kingdom of God. She said we will be whole because we are together Real wholeness real authenticity comes about when we recognize that legitimate and honest authenticity It isn't just about me It's also about us My name is not someone that as Solomon the wise old owl said is a lie My real name and yours as well is everyone because we are conditioned and defined by our Linkages as much if not more than by any qualities that we have developed independently and Traditional indigenous cultures have not completely forgotten this in studying the wind to Indians of Northern, California The anthropologist Dorothy Lee asked some of the tribal members to share with her their personal stories But much of the narratives that she heard Were focused on the lives of the individuals relatives Because as Lee observed for the wind to the self is not so much a bounded entity It's a concentration of qualities that fade at the edges and give way to other entities And in this sense too Charles blows account of his personal struggle to create a more authentic and thoroughly integrated self That example that story is instructive in Devulging such deeply personal information blow was not I believe was not being self-indulgent He was not pursuing an agenda that excluded others from consideration just the opposite in stepping out He was stepping into solidarity with the larger bisexual community Many of whose members may still be searching for the wholeness that he achieved and By exposing a side of himself that had caused him deep shame blow makes it easier for his readers to embrace Those parts of themselves that they would just as soon hide that they would just as soon disown As Florida Scott Maxwell puts it you need only claim the events of your own life to make yourself yours When you truly possess all that you have been all that you have done Then you become fierce with reality Fears with reality that is as incisive a definition of authenticity as I have heard So equipped with the insight that authenticity Possesses not just a personal but a trans personal character. We can lead lives that are both personally meaningful and socially responsible and so that ancient human question who am I Must lead inevitably to an equally important question Who's am I? Parker Palmer says that anything that one can do on behalf of the true self Is ultimately done in the service of others now Switching gears a little bit Ours is not a tithing tradition Unitarian Universalists are not typically asked to contribute 10% of their income to the church I thought that the following explanation that a Methodist man offers for giving at that level was Interesting however and I offer it as a capstone to all that has preceded To tithe this man told his minister is to tell the truth about who I am If I did not tithe it would say that I am a person who has nothing to give a Person who has received nothing from life a Person who did not matter in the largest society a person whose life's meaning was in providing for his needs alone But in fact, he says I am the opposite of all these things. I am a person who has something to give I am a person who has received abundantly from life I am a person whose presence matters in the world And I am a person whose life has meaning because I am connected to and I care about things that are larger than myself And so he says if I did not tithe I would lose track of these truths About who I am and that my friend is the real deal Which is another phrase that we often use when we are in the presence of generous and genuine authenticity And in that spirit of generosity, I invite you now to tithe into our offering plates Please be seated for the benediction in the postlude and Before offering the benediction, I would like to note that the day has arrived select to connect is Going to be spread out throughout the commons There are over 40 different meals and types of entertainment and activities for you to choose from a great opportunity To meet people that you don't know in the congregation established new friendships and relationships So as you go out and enjoy your coffee and your other drinks please look around at the descriptions of these various events and Sign on they're going fast that last night the Saturday people were very very enthusiastic about it And we hope you will be too So we close with these words from John O'Donohue May all that is unforgiven in you be released May your fears yield to their deepest tranquilities May all that is unlived in you blossom into a future graced with love May it be so


That's right. I'm a senior education consultant for the CTLT. And as my director likes to say, I think we're, some of us are three months ahead of other people with generative AI. So I'm not an expert, but I've been taking courses. I've been doing research and quite a few workshops and resource development. So yeah, I'm excited to meet everyone and talk to y'all today. Judy, do you wanna introduce yourself? I also work with Lucas in the Center for Teaching and Learning Technology. I'm an education consultant. I used to say that I'm a month ahead, but now I'm thinking I'm along, working along with the majority right now, but I do spend time to play with gen AI. Over to you, John. Hi everyone, I'm a learning designer at the Center for Teaching and Learning Technology. I work alongside Lucas and Judy. And I will also say that maybe I'm a few months behind Lucas, but a few weeks ahead of everyone else, maybe. On where I'm at with gen AI, but I'm really excited to be facilitating this with all of you today. And Bosong. And Bosong. Hello everyone, my name is Bosong Kim. I'm also with the CTLT. I'm a learning designer. I try to say I'm two months ahead of people. I may say that. And I'm quite excited to talk about and listen to how gen AI can support and enhance teaching and learning. I'm going to share just one way of using gen AI in education in this workshop. Great, wonderful. Thanks for the intros.  So we are privileged to have this workshop on Musqueam territory that we live, work and play and is unseeded. I also wanna pull up this quote from Michael Runningwolf. And Michael is a data scientist and a university PhD student who's been looking at generative AI. And it's a good reminder to me. I'll just give you a chance to read it. So we know that generative AI is scraped the internet and captured a lot of people's IP. But I think it's also appropriated a lot of culture and it's part of the underlying exploitation. So an example of this is if you go on to it and ask it about indigenous learning at UBC, you'll get answers from all of the different web resources here without acknowledgement of where it came from. So I think it's a challenging space right now to work on and just thinking about what it's scraped and how we can acknowledge that and how this might be part of a colonial system. A couple of resources for the session that's John's gonna share into the chat right now. So we have a guide that we created for the session. And what this guide has is a lot of the prompts we're talking about today, as well as a lot of the examples and resources we mentioned. So we encourage you to follow along using the guide and it helped to kind of give things like more concrete lens for you. Secondly, we do want you to do some hands-on work today if possible and maybe I could get a thumbs up if you actively use chat GPT now using your virtual thumbs or physical thumbs, that's okay. Great, thanks Emily. I'll just give everyone a minute or so to do that. Perfect, so a few people do, perhaps a few people didn't put their thumbs up. If you didn't, please feel free also you can use Bing if you use that, Bing AI. There's also a site here called talkai.info.chat and that allows you to use chat GPT without signing in if you're uncomfortable doing that. Beware it's a little bit spammy so it's easy to click on an ad link but it does give you access to the tool. So you don't have to go hands-on but I think it'll be more valuable for you. So our agenda today, 30 minutes interactive presentation followed by 30 minute discussion and really encouraging you during our discussion to use this as a space of sharing. And our learning objectives, three learning objectives. Again, I'll give you a moment to read them. The first learning objective is kind of around understanding how it can be used by students as part of their learning. The second objective is to think about different types of prompts that can help make tools like chat GPT a better coach, a better tutor, a better simulator. And thirdly is engaging an interactive discussion at the end of the presentation. So let's start with the interactive presentation and I'd like you to open your comment boxes now and please share in the chat one way that you've used chat GPT or you would like to use chat GPT in your own learning. So what I'm gonna do is rather than click enter I'm gonna get you to type in the way that you've used it but not click enter until I count down and tell you all and then we'll kind of get a waterfall of answers. So again, one way that you've used chat GPT in your learning or you would like to use chat GPT in your own learning don't click enter yet, just type it into the comment box. And when you've done that give me either a physical thumbs up or a virtual thumbs up so I know you're ready. All right, so I'll give everyone a minute I've seen a couple of thumbs there. Thanks Annie, thanks Brandon, thanks Francis. Thanks Stella, great. I'm seeing a few more thumbs here I'll just wait another 30 seconds or so and in a moment I'm going to count down. So I'll just count down one, two, three, go. So one, two, three, go. Wonderful, thank you for sharing. So to explore different career paths Katie says coding. Another coding as well. Early free chat GPT for draft announcements to improve writing and to do writing rephrasing to get an overview of a topic especially when I'm stuck interesting to generate practice questions in the style of my existing questions. I'm working with robots. I usually tell chat GP to give me some real life tasks to teach robots to do them. Also it's useful to improve in my writing. So using robots to teach robots. I think that's the first time I've heard that to gather ideas about a topic. So lots of different ways that we're using it in our own learning. And I wanna switch gears now and think about what it might mean to student learning. And starting with a couple ways that I think Gen AI can help students success. And there's three ways. And we're gonna go into these in a little bit more detail. First of all, we know one of my other hats as I work on a project called the Chapman Learning Commons. And from that work, it's quite clear as is in the research that students come to university with a variety of different skills for studying and for metacognition and for academic achievement. So in what it's interesting to think of ways that Gen AI can help students become better in these areas. Secondly, is students have diverse abilities and different barriers to learning? So how can these tools help them overcome those barriers or mitigate these barriers at different times? And thirdly is from research like Bloom Sigma problem, we know that students learn significantly better through one-on-one tutoring than in classroom environments in many cases. So how can we leverage these tools to help students use them as tutors? And we're gonna go into these in more detail now. As we're going through this, please feel free to throw your questions and comments in the chat. But I wanna start by talking about the constraints and the limitations of these tools. First of all, there's the issue that I'm sure you've heard about is student privacy and faculty privacy, staff privacy, institutional privacy and organizational privacy. We know that these tools save our data. We know that they have ambiguous terms of reference and they haven't had privacy impact assessments done on them. We also know they've had data leaks and it seems that they're using our data for training themselves. So how do we protect student, faculty and staff privacy? I think an easy way to begin with is not putting PII or personal information into it, but it's worth thinking about where's the boundaries of what we can put into these tools. I don't put people's names in this tool, for example, if I'm writing an email to Emily, I will say name one and then write the rest of the email and fill that in later. But how are we thinking about privacy? If we're asking students to use it as a tutorial tool, how are we helping them protect their own privacy? Secondly is choice and equity. I think there's an opportunity here in terms of equity, students, more students having access to a tutor, but right now we're already seen in equity in these tools. Chat GPT-4 is much more powerful. It gets 90% on the standard bar exam in law compared to 20th percentile by Chat GPT-3.5. Chat GPT-4 costs $30 Canadian a month. How do we ensure equity between our students? And related, how do we give them choice? Not all students are going to want to touch these tools. I'm already working with students who don't wanna sign into them. So if we're thinking about using it, if we're thinking of asking students to use it as a tutor, how do we give them an equitable choice to not use it? And thirdly is cognitive offloading. I think this is quite a challenging situation we're in now. What sort of work is it okay for students to offload into these tools? If they're using it to develop their metacognition, does that take away from their metacognitive development? If they're using it to write resumes, does that take away from their resume writing skills? So how do we teach them? How do we work with them? And how do we think ourselves about what we wanna offload and what we wanna make sure we don't offload so we don't de-skill ourselves and our students? And accuracy and hallucinations. I took this picture of mid-journey and you'll see that the professor there, which just an aside, a mid-journey is quite biased. Professor is always a white male with glasses, it seems. The professor is teaching the student but what he's writing is nonsense. So how do we get our students to use this as a tutor if sometimes it lies to them and tells them things that are inaccurate? We know these tools hallucinate. We know that they're very confident. What does a tutor look like if it's not always telling the truth? So what we're gonna do now is look at three different ways that it can be used in student learning and Judy's gonna launch us off talking about a framework we can think about. Go ahead, Judy. Thank you very much. We draft most of the workshop based on the work done by Molek and Molek. Sly events? Yes, okay, I can do it. The idea behind it is we really want to encourage and challenge our students to stay in the loop when they're using generative AI. We know it's really powerful. It has a lot of ability like what we shared earlier that many of us are actually using it for our own learning. So we really want students to be able to harness the ability and also want students to recognize the error, the inaccuracy. What is the tutor? ChatGPT is not giving the accurate information. We really want to encourage students to be able to check the resources at the personal voices and the insight as we ask our students to work with gen AI tools. So in the framework, Molek and Molek introduced seven different ways to use AI to support students learning. So again, this is to support students learning. This is not to replace a human. So Bosa, Lucas and John will be talking about how we can use them as a learning coach, a tutor and a stimulator. And but Molek and Molek also proposed that we can use gen AI as a teammate so that students can learn how to collaborate with different type of personality. Students can also do self-reflection and thinking about and help them understand their own learning. Gen AI can also be used as a mentor and to give feedbacks to students and also as a tool to help them get some work done, get some of the work done. So seven different ways to use gen AI and over to my colleagues to talk about how we can use gen AI as a coach first. Thanks, Judy. So like Judy said, one way we can introduce AI in student learning is to use it as a coach. We can build prompts in AI that provide opportunities for students to develop study skills for self-regulation and for metacognition or to self-reflect about their own thinking and their own learning. So why does it matter in education? Students need support developing study skills so that they can plan for future assessments and learning activities. And metacognition plays a pivotal role in learning and enabling students to reflect, digest, retain and apply newfound knowledge. And so we can use AI to build interactions that kind of help facilitate this kind of coaching in many different disciplines and contexts. And so in this one example of using AI as a coach, we can ask the AI to respond to a prompt as a specific character and or respond as a specific, or and or respond as a specific character. And this is known as a persona pattern. And by prompting this way, it helps the AI produce specific datasets related to the persona. And in this case, I asked the AI to be the persona of an introductory French instructor and capture responses from the persona of a student, the audience. And so here I'm asking the AI to produce three study approaches for students which speak to their outcomes, these outcomes and preparing for a vocabulary and grammar quiz which is the context for this prompt. And I'm going to share with you the AI response and output in the chat. So if you link to that, it'll open up the chat GPT window which I inputted the prompt and the output that it produced. In this next example of ways of using AI as a coach to improve study approaches, I've asked the AI to be the persona of a mobility coach training an audience of middle-aged students to have better mobility as an outcome. However, unlike the last example, I've asked the AI to ask questions to the audience one at a time, to the learner one at a time. So instead of prompting the AI for a response initially, I've asked the AI to ask the learner questions which will help deepen its understanding of the answers and create a more comprehensive response. This kind of prompting where questions are being asked of the learner and is inputting responses is called a flipped interaction approach. And then based on this flipped interaction, you can see how in this example, the AI has built a more contextualized and maybe even a more customized training approach. And I'm going to share with you the prompts and the output that it produced and all the follow up responses that I inputted as a result of the questions that the AI was asking me. And so in this next piece, let's just try this out. And if you have chat open, chat TPT open and our registered user use the included prompt templates or example prompts and have chat TPT act as a learning coach supporting learners and learning strategies in your discipline or area of expertise. And I'm just going to insert this prompt template in your, in the chat which you can use and replace with your contact. I'm just going to give you guys a few minutes to try this out. And if you would like to share the output in the chat, please feel free. How did you manage to get a URL that shared the conversation with us? Thanks, Andy. So at the top of the conversation, yeah, Lucas can show this as well. At the top of the conversation, there's an ability to share the link for the specific conversation that you're generating inputs and outputs for. Jens, you can also, so we shared a guide with you at the start of the workshop. Okay. If you go to that guide, you'll see there's multiple prompt templates under coaching. So John, are you able to share the link to the guide again? I don't have access to it. Yeah, so if you go into that document, you'll find a prompt template as well as a couple of example prompts under coaching and you can use one of those if you would like. And just for time, we'll probably keep going and you can do that in the background. Thanks, Lucas. Great. So let me jump in and again, feel free to use those prompting approaches in the background as we go. I think Zoom has a setting around file uploads and disabling copy-paste. So please feel free to copy and paste from the Google doc as well. And hopefully these templates, you can keep using them. I love the idea of templates and thinking about sharing it between folks so that we start building up libraries of prompts, libraries of approaches to using these tools. So let's talk briefly about AI as a tutor now. And I think this is a really powerful way that I know I've been using AI. I have a son who's in going into eighth grade and I'm going to be forcing him to do about half an hour a day of AI tutoring. I can force him. I don't have to worry about his privacy as much. But it's a really interesting way to do back and forth. And I've mentioned this a little bit already, why tutoring matters in education, why this tool might matters. There's robust evidence that tutoring is effective in learning. So all the way back to 85, Bloom Sigma II problem, multiple articles about the value of tutoring, the one-on-one relationship. Secondly, we know there's unequal access to private tutors. And I mentioned equity earlier, but there's also already an equity built into the tutoring system where some people can pay for private tutors. Some people can't pay for private tutors. So can this be a way of ensuring equity? And overall, it's an opportunity for customized tutoring. So here's an example prompt. And I'm actually going to demo this prompt with chat GPT in a second. So you're an experienced tutor. So I used, again, this specific persona to allow it to get to more specific data. And you can layer the specific persona. You can say you're an enthusiastic, experienced university level physics instructor with 20 years of experience who specializes in working with students one-on-one. So you can kind of layer in specificity there. Explain Newton's three laws using examples. The second thing that's helpful for students is to connect abstract concepts with examples. And GPT and generative AI is really good at generating examples. And then thirdly, and this is that flipped interaction piece that John talked about, getting the tool itself to gauge your understanding. So once you've done this, ask me questions to figure out if I understand it. Let me just demo this for you now. Gonna stop sharing for a moment here. One moment. And I'll do a quick demo of that using chat GPT, just a second of patience here, while I get my screen up. So I'm on chat GPT and I'm using GPT for, if you haven't used for, it does cost, but it's a lot more effective. So I'm gonna paste in this prompt here. You're an experienced tutor in a university level physics course, and let's see what we get. Great. So certainly be happy to, it's interesting because it's always different. The answer I'm never exactly sure how this is gonna come out. So it's going over the first law of inertia, the law of acceleration, and it's giving me these concrete examples each time. Now here's where the challenge comes in. I'm not good at physics. I didn't even do high school physics. So I don't know if it's true. And this is where the tutoring comes in. I hope there's some physics folks in the room. So it's giving me some questions now based on this. And I can answer the questions. If a car is moving at constant speed in a straight line, what can you say about the net external force acting on it? Can someone share the answer in the chat? I have no idea. I'm just gonna open the chat there. Nothing yet. Okay, I'm gonna say air resistance. I hope Judy's right. So I'm just sharing one answer and we'll see what we get. Great. So it's gonna give me an answer and it's going to start kind of doing this back and forth as a tutoring tool. So that's just a demo of what GPT or these tools might look like as a tutor. And I'm gonna turn it over to Bosung now who can talk about the last category that we're looking at is AI as a simulator. Thank you, Lucas. So I'm going to discuss and then share some examples on the use of AI as a simulator for student learning. Simulation or simulated learning that is really widely used in the fields of medical education, social work, low education, counseling disciplines because it's a great way to engage a student with real world scenarios where a student can or encouraged to interact with the complexity of the problems and thereby encourage them to critically analyze and like react to those complexity and act to provide the responses. The idea of using AI as a simulator is to have AI simulate real world interactions by playing a role that we specify. And we can also ask AI to provide feedback and suggestion for improvement on our action and responses and decisions. So it can generate various scenarios across various discipline and topics. So there are not wide mirrors in education. Here are a couple of reasons. Using gen AI as a simulator, it allows students to practice those skills and apply knowledge in a safe but challenging spaces. Students will have less anxiety because it's okay to make mistakes and they can also learn from their mistakes. Gen AI can also be prompted to offer feedback, as I said before, which is really important for continuous learning and improvement. Lastly, it is quite cost effective, like well-designed assimilation. They can be costly, but using gen AI three from five, as we know it's free. So it might be more equitable platform for practice. And as far as I understand, it has no and or less administrative task involved in from instructor end, but it is still necessary to provide a clear guideline and instruct the student on its usage for their learning. So the first example here I provide is job interview simulation. As seen in the previous example by Lucas and John, we need to tell AI who it is persona and along with some context information, we can layer some specifics. We can make it more specific to make gen AI produce more well-designed questions. We also need to inform what tasks you need to perform and then how it should behave. I'm here also asked feedback for improvement that is a must for simulated learning. So here I told AI to act as a job interviewer in a tech company industry, hiring a software development position. AI was also prompted to ask a series of questions one at a time. Otherwise AI may list out all the questions in their first reply. So when we design prompt, we need to include important requirement or sometimes constraint for simulated instruction interactions. Here I said that after four interaction, AI need to provide constructive feedback on my responses and then inform me where I can improve. Here you see below that is the voice control. I installed, you can install this voice control that is Chrome extension. I installed it to engage in more conversation based simulation. The mic on this voice controller will allow me to use my voice to have chat GPT convert my response to text. And also the speaker there when it is on it will also read the question by AI allowed to me. Here the important risk to mention is that student need to think about the privacy. So not to share their two personal information with Gen AI. The next example is the patient assessment simulation. So similar to the previous example, I told AI to perform a specific role here as a patient and inform that I'm a healthcare provider. This scenario was developed to help the student in healthcare field to develop their patient assessment skill not in all area but specifically in mental health. It was prompted to provide basic patient information and wait until I read the patient and provide feedback on my assessment and treatment plan for improvement. So before we ask the student to use Gen AI for simulation in this way, it will be very important for the instructor to important instructor to check its accuracy and relevancy to their field. As Lucas mentioned before, it's very good at policy hallucination and then it may provide inaccurate information. Also, we can ask a student to analyze its feedback output and which feedback they decide to take and or not taking and their reasons. So now we want to hear from you. We are from different disciplines. So do you see Gen AI has some potential in your discipline to support your student learning as a simulator? So if you think about how you might use this approach in your course, in your discipline, so please use the chat to share. I like the Lucas approach that let's wait until everyone have time to think about and then please thumbs up when you put some salt into the chat. So for example, in business field, you may think about some role play simulation in HR meeting. I think it has some possibility potential for low education. Okay, so if you have some idea, let's hear, I will just say one, two, three and then can you hit enter? One, two, three. Okay, great, assimilate a group of learners when designing new teaching activities that create idea and then ask another student to explain a topic and then assimilate in case of study about academic integrity. That's really interesting idea and acting as tutor. Yes, that's one example of the simulation. Emily, you're a librarian and then you think that they can use Gen AI for creating effective research questions and getting started with the research plan. Michigan, University of Michigan has some great idea about how people might be using Gen AI to help with their research. I'm happy to share the link and then how to use a specific career headset. Is it a question? And I mean question to us and generating problem for material design and providing a template for answer, that's great idea. I think we shared great idea. I hope that later we can also save this chat and share with others. Okay, back to Kass. Wonderful, thanks, Bosung. So the last thing I wanted to mention really briefly before we move into discussion and activity is just where this is going. And I think right now we have these open tools where we're using chat GPT or entering it, it's these huge language models but what I'm already seen is the customization of these tools. So I've put a link on the side to a tool called Poe on the left where you can create custom bots that use chat GPT. In this case, I made a learning support bot that uses complex prompts on the backend and helps students with learning support, but that's all and it has some specific guidelines. On the right is CanMingo. CanMingo isn't available in Canada yet but it's the Khan Academy's version of a tutor bot. So it'll be interesting in the next year. I would expect we're going to see a lot of custom bots that are not the whole of GPT, not the whole of these models, but slices of the models. And an interesting thought experiment would be what would a bot look like in your course? What would a bot look like in your context? How would you develop it? But let's move on to the discussion part and to kind of get you going, what I want you to do first is to take a moment and prompt it. So we've talked about three ways of using prompts, coaching, tutoring and simulations. I've given you a guidebook with different prompt templates. Select one of the prompt approaches, edit the prompt template and create your own prompt in chat GPT or Bing Chat. Look at the quality of the prompt and the output and then share your prompt and the output in the chat. And we can use that as a point of discussion. While we're doing that, please feel free to raise your virtual hand, ask a question, you know, share what your prompts looking like. But we wanted to kind of get you going, doing some prompting right away. So I'll get you to open GPT, open a GenAI tool of some sort, grab a prompt based on what we did and see what the output's like and kind of let us know. So I'll give you a, let's go five minutes on that. But again, if you have questions that have come up, please raise your virtual hand and jump in as we do that too or drop them in the chat as well. And I see John's put a couple of links to some tools in the chat as well. And again, once you have your prompt and your output, share them, just drop them into the chat. You can share them as a link if you want or you can share the overall prompt and output. So I see a question in the chat from Annie saying, I saw in the promptathon that you could use chat GPT to create learning games. What sort of games have you had success creating? I've had it successful doing question and answer games. So where it asked me one question, you know, a really interesting game for it is a prompting game. You can ask it to give you an output for a prompt and your challenge is to create a prompt to get the output and it will evaluate your prompt. So kind of a meta game. I've also done a logical fallacy game where I had it. I think I might have showed that in the promptathon where I had it play a logical fallacy game with me. It gave me a logical fallacy, a sentence with it in it. And I had to guess what was it ad hominem? What was the logical fallacy? And it would tell me if I was correct. So I played those couple of games with it. I'd like to hear from other people, other games they played as well. And another question, how can we use it well with graduate students when writing course papers and even theses? So I kind of open that question that's from Mary and up to the room as well. How can we use it generally to support writing? Any ideas around that from folks in the room? And I see that Judy's answered. It can be used to create a very basic generic outline. This is known to be able to help students overcome the initial barriers to writing. Students certainly need resources and voices to create the final product, the research paper. Thanks Judy. And I have some concerns about this. This is from Amit Upadthay. As we about this, how can we as an educators promote AI tutoring when we know of its tendency to hallucinate, especially with more complex concepts when there is not as much information online to begin with? Well, we can advise students to be aware of hallucinations. They might not be confident with the subject matter to differentiate between the correct answer. Absolutely. I think this is a big challenge. I think some of the custom bots may solve it as we get into more custom bots. They may have more accuracy. But how can we put a human into the learning process for students? Judy mentioned she's trying to create a jeopardy game. So maybe if folks had a chance to prompt chat GPT, would you be able to share your prompts now and your outputs? Just drop them in the chat. That would be great. Great. I tried an escape room game, but the output was too simplistic. Thanks, Annie. Any other prompts that you tried? Just give folks one more minute, and then we can move on to some couple broad questions. Great. So Brandon's prompt, you're a grade 10 student who is struggling to grasp conservation of energy, ask questions. To me, the teacher as a student would, to a teacher, one at a time, allow me to respond. I'm having issues with this. Chat GPT is answering its own questions. Interesting. And that can absolutely happen. Often I'll be telling it, please stop, try doing it this way, changing it around a little bit so that it doesn't start doing things like answering its own question. Worst comes to worst, you may even have to open a new tab for other points here. I just grabbed one of the prompts from your Google Doc to compare Bing and chats as Yens. After learning that Bing doesn't work in Chrome, I did realize that Bing's references look a lot more appropriate. That's a good point in Bing. If you use Bing AI, it does use references, and it has links to the references. One of the challenges, it's nice to be able to find the links. I think one of the challenges with that is some of the links are, a lot of them are to Wikipedia. Some of them are like to Quora and some dubious web sources. So I tried to start a Q&A back and forth, but my prompt said write a set of questions and it provided the answer before I could try. When I changed the prompt to suggest pose it worked, interesting. So a single word that made a big difference. And Eden shared her prompts, communication skills. Effective communication skills vital in medicine. She did a situation. You're a lead physician in a multidisciplinary team caring for a patient with complex health conditions. The team is having difficulty agreeing on the best treatment plan. And tensions are rising. Your goal is to ensure effective communication and find resolution. I love the specificity that we're getting into. And prompts can be long, or they can be something you do ongoing with the tool. So thanks for sharing that. I just want to now open up for a discussion. So how might generative AI be used in your discipline? What are some other ways you've used it already to support learning? And what limitations and constraints do you see in these tools? So if you want to turn on your camera now, that would be great. You don't have to, but why don't we kind of discuss the significance in your discipline? I'm sure we have a lot of expertise and thinking in the room. So please feel free. Turn on your camera. Raise your virtual hands. Jump in there if you'd like. And I'll keep fielding questions in the chat. Does anyone know of GPT-4? One moment. Does anyone know if GPT-4 is capable of generating correct citations? Rachel, a really good question. So I don't know if anyone else has done experimentation with this. I have. Yes and no. Sometimes yes. If prompted under certain, sorry, sometimes no. It's given me lots of false citations. But when I prompt it in education, I have got a lot of correct citations. And one of the ways that I've done that is using, it's called a COT prompt, a chain of thought. So once it creates an answer for me, what I'll do is say, tell me how you got to that answer. Tell me the references you called on. Or I'll even add a role into that. So I'll say, act as an experienced researcher in X. Analyze the results you that were given to you. And tell me the research that it was built on. And what I found is sometimes when I do that, I get very accurate references. It's easy for me in education because I can see whether the references are legitimate or not. Sometimes I won't get accurate references that way. And it's so interesting to see, again, that sometimes you're going to get something clear and sometimes you're not. And how do we work with students around that? So ways that you're using it in your disciplines, what constraints, what limitations are you seeing with it? Maybe another question is, would you be comfortable using it as a tutor or a learning coach in your area of practice? Once Analyze's mentioning that she finds it quite superficial, but with great potential as it improves. And I would challenge you to, I think we can move beyond superficial sometimes with a lot of prompting. It's not always going to be there, but I found it really depends on how we prompt it. But I do think it runs into these barriers. So it's an interesting experiment to see how deep we can go, like how much, if you queue it with very specific things, can it pull on better data? Ani, can I ask you which field you're in? Yeah, science education? Let's call that. OK. And where are you finding this superficiality? Well, just when I use it generally, and I ask a question, I just find it basically, it always kind of responds at the Wikipedia level. And so, which probably is enough for most people, but when I'm using it for my own work, it's like, no, need to dig a little deeper here. That's a really interesting point. How about the rest of you? Do you find this superficiality with it, or have you been able to go a little deeper? So I'm just looking in the chat. I work in a specialized area of medicine, and I find sorting through the hallucination, which versus what was actually correct can be time consuming. I think that's quite interesting is how long we're spending to try to wade through this and to try to find the valuable information. An example that I'm not sure I shared this in a previous workshop. Yeah, sorry, Mara mentions it goes deeper with follow-up questions. And sometimes it can in different areas. An example I had was I paddleboard, and recently I went to my hometown, which is called Outland BC up in northern British Columbia. And I asked it, can I paddleboard? Where should I paddleboard? And it said, well, you can go across the lake. And if you've been up to Outland, it's the lake 70 kilometers long and really wide and glacial, and you will not do well going across the lake. So it's pulling this generic information. But then I was able to say, I want to take my paddleboard from Torres Channel to First Island, and suddenly it called on totally different information. And it said, you can't do that. If you tried that, you would need to do xx and x. You'd want to cross here. So it's like it was able to access different data points. So it's interesting to play with different words, different phrases that will get at those different data points. Or as Jennifer Rice mentioned, perhaps in certain areas of medicine, certain areas, it's not going to be able to move beyond that data or move beyond that generic Wikipedia type answers. I find that disconcerting how much you have to play with it to get good information. It's a very good point. Wonderful. So I'm just looking at our time now. It's almost 5-2. And what I want to do is share some further resources with you. And thank you for the conversation in the chat. That was a really interesting conversation and lots of really good prompt shared. So let me kind of end with a couple of resources. One moment. Give me a sec here. I'm going to take my chat down. So resources. Again, acknowledging this is a really emergent space and a single workshop only touches the surface. At CTLT, we have a GenAI website where you can go and we've included resources there. We've included links to future sessions, as well as some faculty stories about using AI. Related to that on the bottom link there, it says share your experience. If you have an experience using it, we're trying to collect these stories right now, how you've used it in the class, what's working for you, what the challenges are. And finally, for this session, based on that guide, we created a web resource that goes over each of the different prompt approaches, as well as, so the different prompt approaches, as well as the different ways of using it. So please feel free to access that as you go. And that kind of brings us to the end. I wanted to thank everyone for taking some time to explore this and it will be really interesting in a year or so to kind of look back on this and see where things are then and where we were now and what the changes are. So thanks for coming to the session. We'll put the recording on the website as well and we'll share an email with you, with the recording as well as with the website resource.


So I'll show you this, this little circuit, basic two-stage amplifying circuit, I've made it off this. Now, there's only values on one stage here, at the minute, but it is basically just replicated to the other stage. The only difference is, instead of having a 10-mic input capacitor, I've got here, I think it's a 220-nanofarad. There's not a great deal of difference if I use a 10-nanofarad, 100-nanofarad, 220, 270 or 330. They're the different ones I've tried. Sorry about the flickering thing, it's my lights, I don't know why it has to be like this, but if I switch it off, the camera, oh okay, the camera is not having a moody. Okay, I'll leave that off. So, there's some voltage values there. This is feeding with a 9-volt input supply. So with 100k there, on this voltage divider here, we've got a 7.4 volts. And then here, we've got 1.5, which makes up the amount of volts nearly. We've got a 1k here, a 3.9k here, 3.6 volts. And 0.92 volts here. I've used BC547s, both of them. And like I said, I think there's a 10-gen 20 there at the moment. There's the little circuit, nice and simple. Now this is the second time I've made this video. The first time I made it with this camera in my hand and did lots of different variations on capacitors and stuff, but I've basically just written them all down here. I'm not going to go through them all for the sake of the video in time. Yours and mine, but I used my other camera looking at the scope while I was doing it, and I was actually using this scope. And now it's had another flash update from Hantec. It's possibly a bit of corruption on the other one. It seems to be playing a lot better. It still does freeze and just reset itself and set everything back to factory standard settings, which is a bit annoying when you set it up the way you want it. So I've got three outputs on this anyway. I've got what's coming in from the... What's all this is? Fed use and this... Oh, I don't know how many you can't see that. It's 100 hertz. I might put the lights on just for this bit. There we go. 100 hertz, 0.5 volts. Okay. And here's the results of that. But you can imagine the top waveform there, the yellow, is what's coming in from there. The second stage is the blue. Of course, the first stage, sorry, is the blue. And the purple, or whatever colour that is, is the output stage. It's only fit for... I'm trying to get that window out. Sorry about that glare. You can see that the voltage is there. 880... 800 millivolts coming in, which is supposed to be... It says 0.5 on the function generator, but... 2.8 volts on the first stage and 7.4 volts on the second stage. I did a little bit of math earlier. It works out, I don't know what it was. This is slightly different because I've been playing around so much. But that's what I got earlier. We had 910 millivolts in, but I think I was on 10 volts or something coming in. But I've got it on 9.4 volts or something, which is normally what you'd have on a 9-volt battery, but I'll just put it to there. And it was giving me 7.44 going out. The quick calculation there, 8.175. I think that's supposed to be the game, but I don't think that is. I'm not sure. I don't think that's correct at all. Somehow I've missed on that, and I probably need to put it in down the bottom of the screen there, as I'm talking to you. But I see it. I just wanted to have a little play around with that. This isn't off the internet. This is partly from a book. I started to do a second stage off it when I saw a video on the internet and realised I could actually just do all these up. But I made a mistake last night when I did that, just thinking, oh, can I do that? And I put a 10-mic capacitor in here, which just made this output completely wrong. So I reduced it down to 10 nanofarads, and it made it good. And I've just been playing around for the last couple of hours to see what I can and can't get away with it. So there it is, nice and simple. Yeah, cheers for watching.


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Hi, I'm Aisha Driggers, the Director for the City of Columbia Office of Business Opportunities. And I'm Colleen again, your program compliance specialist with the City of Columbia Office of Business Opportunities. We're excited to announce our 10th annual Small Business Conference on Friday, May 5th at 9 o'clock. This year the conference will be held at the Medallion Conference Center. The cost for the event is $25 and you can register at obo.columbiasc.gov. This year's conference, we will have a matchmaking session and award ceremony provided by the U.S. Small Business Administration. In addition to that session, we will have a keynote speaker, Mr. Chris Singleton from Charleston, South Carolina, who will be speaking with our small business community. We will also have breakout sessions that will target subjects such as cybersecurity, public relations and marketing, mental health wellness for small business owners, and building business credit. We look forward to seeing you on May 5th at 9 o'clock at the Medallion Center for the 10th annual City of Columbia Office of Business Opportunities Small Business Conference.


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What's going on, everyone? Sam here with late sports cards, ripping 22, Panini, Don Russ, an impeccable football hobby, two box mixer, number 18, random team style. Here's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find these on the website under the results tab, as well as the link that's in chat. So good luck, guys. Let's go ahead and do it. Don Russ first. Got a six-boxer of Don Russ coming up after as well. Maybe the Don. Johan Dotson, Danny Gray, Lawrence Taylor. It's going to be all top-loaded fillers. Can you imagine that one? We're going to random all the fillers off really quick. In case you guys need some shipping protection. I'm going to leave Willys Rookie. Darno Looney, Red, Bo Melton for the Seahawks on the press proof. Let me go ahead and random off all the fillers. Crystal Lavey Rookie, Miles Garrett, Trevor Lawrence, and Red, Gerald Everett for the Chargers on the press proof. Dude, people won't buy anything nowadays. You just have to know how to market it. I don't know how to market a filler card. I'm sure someone could. Jaylen Waddle? I'm sure, yeah. Honestly, if there was an artist out there, they could probably just use it as a canvas almost. Trayvon Walker? Yeah, probably. They'd be solid for a thicker stock sketch. There's Sam Howe, Matt Corral, and to 100 is Road to the Super Bowl, Patrick Mahomes. Nice little pack there. Congrats, Chiefs. Don't hate that. Big fan of that, for sure. Filler, Jaylen Hertz, James Walker on the canvas, and a Jason Taylor. Jameson Williams Rookie. Jaymo, lead series Skymore. Fans of the game, Mark Wahlberg and Red, Zeke Elliott. Donnie's guy. My favorite. Forrest, are you still in here? Do you know if there's hockey on anywhere? Reese Hall, the rookies. Kenny Pickett, Great Iron Kings, T.Y. Hilton. I think we're just going to settle for college basketball. Skymore? That's not the worst thing in the world. Missing name play, James Conner for the Cardinals. Straylon Birx, Red Press Proof. Rookie for the Titans. Aiden Hutchinson, canvas. A Press Proof of Darius Slaton to 100. ESPN Plus, yeah, yeah. Rip. That thing we don't get here? Yeah, okay. Cool. Really, you think it's the worst time of the year for sports? There's Kenyan Green, rated rookie for the Texans. I think it's like July, dude. No, football's not out. Well, now, I mean, now you have two sports going on right now. I think the worst is, I think it's July. I don't think it's July because there's only baseball going on, which I love baseball. Don't get me wrong, but like Drake London, Great Iron Kings and base. Okay, a little bit of text to stack or What does it say?  Let's go with the first one. Yeah, that one. Kingsley and Ibarra. Is there somebody ranked in this one? Trey McBride, Matt Stafford, Jake Plummer. Trading in your truck. What kind of truck do you have right now, Yogi? What are you thinking of getting? New one, I'm assuming. You upgrading? George Pickens, Canvas Rookie. Treylon Birx, Red Press Proof. There's just the Kings. Mark Andrews, nice one there. That is for the Ravens. These are all decked out. That's pretty cool. What do you think of it again then? Mike Williams. No, that's true. That's true because it's NBA free agency. There's enough going on with post draft workouts and stuff. Christian Watson, Great Iron Kings, Peyton Manning, and Cole Comet to 8 of 50 for the Bears. What's up, James?  We've got Impeccable now. Good luck, guys. No, I know.  I agree with that. I agree. There's no basketball.  It's literally only hockey and NBA basketball right now. Brian Tannehill, 250. We've got Michael Thomas, 275. You want me to recap either. DeMarvin Liao, 1 out of 35. Roosley goes to Liesman to pick a ball playoff. Race really heats up though. That's awesome. I would do it. I would do it, Yogi. We've got Justin Sucker, 5 of 5. My god, that is insane. That is insane, dude. Holy cow. Congrats, Rob with the Ravens. Look at the patch on that thing, dude. Talk about how about the biggest heartbreak for Sam in the world? Oh, man. Oh, that's rough. Game Breaker's Ray Lewis on card right behind it. That's rough. My heart is in a million pieces right now. Rob, congrats, man. Sam's going to cry himself to sleep. I might, dude. I hope maybe. You can mag the tuck or you don't have to mag the red. Ooh. Right? The patch is on that thing. That's awesome. We've got Cooper Cop 29 out of 35. I couldn't see it, like, in my angle. I know where the patch started. Yeah, I got Insta. I got Insta, Yogi. I've got a personal account and a card account. Got 39 out of 75. Breeze Hall, Jersey helmet auto. That talker's nasty, dude. Yeah, so you're going to win. That's, dude, like, there is not a more, like, box I would want as a personal than I've ever pulled out of him. I've never pulled an impactable one like that ever again. That's insane, dude. That's fair. Ithaca sports cards, I-T-H-A-C-A sports cards. We've got, ooh, Jim Kelly. 25 of 25 on the bar card. Going to the bills. Kenneth H. Congrats, buddy. Nice one there. Ah, dude. That's so, like, that's just, that's rough. Having to give, let those cards walk away. Oh, let's see if Gatherist's thoughts while I finish this. Yeah, Thonny's top loading last card here. Oh, that's so sad, dude. No, I went to college. I went to Ithaca College. Mark Andrews. That is Kenyon Green. Got Breeze Hall, RPA for the Jets. Cooper Cup patch auto for the Rams. Game breakers Ray Lewis, 27 out of 50. That's the Marvin Leal. I know you should have bought into this break with the Ravens curse. Five of five astravigance nasty patch auto Justin Tucker. And then we've got the... Here, I'll let you know in one second, Adam. 25 of 25, Jim Kelly for the bills and the bar card. That'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks for the fill. We'll get those right out.


Well, the highlight of the report to me is, I think, summed up in the fact that India is the one bright spot in today's gloomy world and so is our Indian ad-ex in a global ad-ex. You know, despite everything that we have been through, for example last year, we started with Covid wave 3, then the war happened because of it, so many things happened, inflation happened, many of the western economies were down. Indian ad-ex grew by 21% and we expect compared to our 21%, the top 11 countries including USA, China and Germany, UK, Japan, all of them grew by only 1%. Even a forecast for next year shows that ad-ex will grow at a good 16%, whereas the global forecast for ad-ex is only 3%. So, I think there is no denying that India is today in a hot spot and I think most of the global consultancies are also saying this. Obviously, everybody knows this but now digital has kind of overtaken television but I think on balance it is not a question of digital or TV which are the two big boys of ad-ex. It should be television and digital and when should you add digital to your building plans and under what circumstances? I think also we had a very interesting and lively discussion on IPL, again TV or digital and I think both the speakers gave us some fantastic points. So, on the whole I think we had a very interesting afternoon and evening and I hope everybody who took the trouble to come here in large numbers found it to be an enlightening afternoon and evening.


Okay, so we're looking at the muscles of the face here, so we can start with the front talus, which would be this frontal muscle up here, right over the frontal bone, the temporalis. We have our bicularis oculi, which is the muscle that surrounds the eye itself, the bicularis aurus surrounds the mouth, okay. On the side here we have the resource, the zygomatic major, the zygomatic minor, okay, the bucinator, masseter, okay, sternocleidoid mastoid is around the side over here, right here on the side. Sternohioid would be down here. The platysma is not apparent on this particular model, but it is a layer of muscle that wraps and connects to the lower point of the jaw and kind of covers up this material.


Today's episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Film versus digital.  About 30 years or so since digital cameras started to hit the consumer market. I have many thoughts on this debate as I'm sure you do too. This whole film versus digital thing has kind of evolved into tribalism instead of the merits of each format. So here's my thesis. It doesn't matter which one you use.  They're tools. What matters is the artist behind the medium and why they might choose one format over the other for the shot. So here's my perspective on that. Objectivity versus subjectivity. Here lies what I think is the dividing line between the two mediums. In general, film is subjective and digital is objective. Digital sensors, workflows, and modern lenses are superior to film on paper largely because they're newer technology and have developed quite extensively since the turn of the century. Digital sensors can shoot images that are sharper and house more resolution than ever before producing an image that's almost lifelike in rendering. Clinical and perfect corner to corner, which is yeah, fantastic technology. But in my opinion, they produce images that are purely objective with so much fine detail and color science down to a T. There really isn't too much room for interpretation. I mean, if the photographer who shot this big foot photo had a gfx at the time instead of like a literal potato for a camera, it wouldn't even be a debate.  In my opinion, this makes digital sensors superior for a lot of work, like sports photography, product photography, macro, passport, ID photos, astrophotography, to name a few. But in my opinion, these subsections of photography are more about capturing things as they are. What I mean by that is, for example, sports photography. It isn't really so much about putting your artistic spin on the image but seemingly more about capturing the best moment truly as it happened right there before you. It's about being objective. Film isn't about being objective, at least most of the time. I think most people in the film photography community would agree that it's really more about spending literally all your money to explore a new medium, being experimental and capturing a moment that feels like it has soul on good old celluloid instead of a random assortment of ones and zeros. It kind of makes some sort of sense in this online digital age that people are flocking to this more physical medium in a search for something different. In my opinion, film captures the soul of a moment more effectively. And that's purely because it's an imperfect solution. You have film grain, light leaks, vintage lenses, halation, and unique colors, all of which combine to make something that somewhat resembles a memory and memories are imperfect and subjective. I may be completely off base here because I don't shoot these kind of things, but photographers who shoot birds or sports aren't really trying to capture a feeling most of the time. Typically, I think they're looking for a true reproduction of something. Photographers who capture their vacation on film aren't looking for sharpness or clarity but instead are hoping to capture the feeling of being wherever they were.  As I kind of mentioned before, I think sports photography takes more of an objective approach.  He was quoted saying this, in the early digital days, we were all shooting with more or less the same camera body. The same couple of zoom lenses and the chance to come up with a different look was something I found worth the extra work. That's the difference between objectivity and subjectivity. That's the difference between film and digital, in my opinion. Different end goals.  You literally used one of the craziest and least sharp lenses you can for 4x5. There's been some really dumb conjecture online lately about how film is far insufficient against digital sensor technologies of today and thus it is kind of nonsensical for anyone to shoot it. Probably from the same kind of people who watch Judgment Day and cheered for the robots. But I never hear the same argument against TinType or any of those alternative processes. Maybe because those gangsters don't care and they're too busy getting blasted on paint thinner or whatever they used to do that. Likely, we're only hearing this argument now because film is popular once again. And for some reason, some people don't like that. I think what people who make that argument are missing is that sometimes there's merit and fun to be had with older tech. Especially if we can use new technology in conjunction with it. Why do people still sail across the Atlantic Ocean when newer technology allows them to fly across? Why do people still send postcards when you can just email? Why do people paint pictures when you can just print one out? Sure, it's slower and technically not as good, but that's the beautiful thing about it. It's got meaning and soul. Digital photography is so perfect nowadays. It's hard to imagine where it could go in the future. If you can absolutely rip 200 photos of basically the same moment over and over again separated by one two-thousandth of a second, is there something special about any of those shots? If you have 199 almost exact copies, it depends what you're going for, I guess. For a lot of us, film photography brings back intention and slows us down a little bit in a digital age where everything is instant. But what's the point of shooting something like film and then digitizing it with a digital sensor anyway? Why not just shoot film to begin with if a digital file is the end goal? The simplest answer is purely workflow. Some people, like myself, enjoy the lack of abilities that film and film cameras bring. The fact you can take a photo and it's immediately wiped from your brain a minute later, because you can't check on the back of your camera is a good thing to us. It allows you to move on to the next shot and stay more in the scene. And that's simply apart from the fact that there are looks you can get on film that you just can't on a digital sensor unless you use heavy emulation. Scanning your film to your phone or your computer is also non-destructive to the look of the film itself. You still get all the imperfections of celluloid and the colors are true to the stock. In fact, I'd argue that that's one of the strengths of today's digital sensor market. These cameras can objectively capture high resolution scans of your film photos without missing a beat. Sure, it's not entirely historically accurate to how they did it back in the day. But back in the day, people didn't have ways to show their work that were as convenient as, for example, Instagram. You can't directly upload a darkroom print online. It has to first be digitized somehow. If this is an argument that you've ever made, you still require pilots to use compasses and maps instead of GPS. Why can't we enjoy older technology made convenient by newer technology? Which somewhat leads me to my final point, at least in this video. Digital photography is about fixing it in post and film photography is about fixing it in pre. And as someone who's had to fix it in post for many, many years, I wholeheartedly have to tell you it almost always looks better if you just fix it beforehand. What I mean by that is with all the bells and whistles that digital cameras can offer, like high megapixels and camera raw, it's super easy to drag your digital file in any direction you want to go, like across the computer screen and into the trash. You can apply filters, presets, emulations, you can change the exposure after the fact. The whole shebang. Digital sensors can see just about every detail of a photo and with high image resolution, you can crop in if you missed the intended composition, which again is a great thing and it's fantastic to have as an option. But in my opinion, it's a little more useful for things that are objective, like document scanning, wildlife photography, courtroom photography, paparazzi bullshit, the list goes on. With film, you don't have the same kind of flexibility, not even by a long shot. With 35 millimeter, you're pretty much locked into the exposure and composition that you shot on the day that you shot it. I won't even get into how people who shoot half frame and 110 are, which means you need to fix it in pre-production. You need to be more conscious of what you're doing before doing it. It requires more effort and in my opinion that thinking before you shoot mentality makes you a better photographer overall. But these aren't things that are exclusive to film photography. These are practices that any photographer can use though. If you know the ability to fix it in post or double check your image is there. How are you going to force yourself over time to not become lazy and utilize those tools? Do you yourself have a deep love or passion for something, anything that you do in life? Chances are, yeah, you do. Whether it's photography, cooking or power juggling eggs, take it to the next level of today's sponsor, Squarespace. Squarespace is an all-in-one website building platform that features the ability to customize your own corner of the internet from the ground up. 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It may sound like I was shitting on digital sensors the whole time, but I promise you I was only trying to explain my perspective on the two mediums, which yeah, looking back might be a little biased.  Who cares? They're bigger problems. As I said before, film and digital are both tools for the artist. I think what makes a photographer great is being able to recognize these tools, what they're best used for, and finding the right application for them. I don't think one is necessarily better than the other for everything. If you shoot digital and have found a workflow that benefits you, then great, I say more power to you. Without a question in my mind, digital photography is better for some things. I have found a workflow that I enjoy for film photography, and I think the film photography look and workflow compliments the things that I shoot much more better than a digital sensor. If you shoot both, great. I also shoot both. Obviously, this video is shot on digital. It'd be an exercise in pain and bankruptcy if I shot these videos on film. It's about the application, but that's just my two cents. You can do whatever you want. Just don't hate on the other one. We're all fighting the good fight against bad photography together. Oh, and yeah, my YouTube plaque doesn't make my opinion more correct than yours. What they send you isn't even a plaque. It's literally cake.


Playing with water can be fun for a child and can also be used for learning. You can give the child a small cup and a larger bowl and say, how many cups do you think will it take to fill the bowl? The child can make a guess and then test it by filling the cup with water and pouring it into the bowl. Talk about what they find. How many cups did it take to fill the bowl? Was it more or less than what you guessed? By making a prediction about what is going to happen, testing it, and talking about it, the child is learning to think like a scientist.