Christine cranky thought of the week that has nothing to do with the LT Department: Y'all should read the book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, by Amanda Montell (COD Library link). It is a very helpful book to "decode" the current discourse in a lot of place. In...
Christine note that has nothing to do with the LT office: did you guys read this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education? That's what has made AI-generated text relatively easy to spot in student work. But, to me, so far, it was more like that saying from a...
Let's talk about a topic that I consider super important: our own digital practices with regards to privacy and data protection. This is, of course, related to my previous post on LLMs. The usual disclaimer: What I discuss in this post is my perspective only, It does...
Come read with me the recently published The Opposite of Cheating - Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI. The seminar will consist of four one-hour sessions on Zoom, starting in October, on Thursdays (10/2, 10/9, 10/16, and 10/23), from 3:30 to 4:30pm. The seminar...
We need your help. As you know, we still have about 40% of faculty who have yet to migrate to Ultra. We are still trying to avoid a stampede at the end of the semester and the beginning of Spring 2026. And yet, at the Open Labs, we are starting to see adjuncts who are...
No, PDFs are not dead You may have seen some communication urging people to stop using PDFs for accessibility reasons. It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Let me review different situations and what you can do so that your documents are accessible. The worst-case...
