By Any Other Nerd

Estimated Reading Time: 25 minutes Recently, I was asked to give some talks on the role of generative AI in the job-search for Endicott College and Northeastern University. I had higher hopes for them being more dynamic and richer in the live session but unfortunately, they both happened while I had COVID, which limited my usual ability to bring the energy that I like to have in these. Still, I believe there are things here that folks can find helpful--whether they are job-searching themselves or helping others. There continues to be a lot going on in generative AI and education. Less about the fact that people are using it and more about how they are using it and how we can think about navigating student and staff usage of these tools. Since I last posted about my work, there's been a couple new and exciting things that have happened including being interviewed for this CNN.com article , being name-dropped in Forbes , being a guest on the Future Trends Forum with Bryan Alexan

Estimated Reading Time: 15.5 minutes So it's that time again. On my birthday each year, I share out about the year and think about what is ahead. This is apparently year #7 and you can see the others below. 38 39 40 41 42 43 Let's start with some of the miscellaneous details I've collected over the years here, shall we? Home :  Cranston, RI Relationship status :  Married (9+ years) Cats Owned :  2 (Bear and Pumpkin) Other Pets :  1 mud turtle (MJ, 37'ish years old) Degrees earned : 5 (3 masters, 1 bachelor, 1 associate) Degree working on :  PhD in Higher Education Credits Completed Toward Dissertation : 72 out of 72. Reading since Sept 2022 :  302 (Latest reads can always be found on  Goodreads ) Work : Director of Faculty Development & Innovation at College Unbound (full-time)  Teaching courses at  North Shore Community College Consulting, Facilitator, Speaker Weight :   244 pounds Longest Distance Run This Year :  10 miles (8/26/2023) Fastest Pace This Year :  8:5

Estimated Reading Time: 45 minutes ( yeah, it's a long one! ) So I recently did a keynote talk at Husson University. As is my open-access practice when I get such opportunities, I'm not a fan of making something that is just used once.  So here is it is!  I'll be doing a video soon but in the meantime, enjoy .    I also did something different with the resources and did an annotated slide deck with my talk and resources .   The talk went decent and they seemed to appreciate it. Unfortunately, my timing wasn't right, even though I practiced, so I ended up stopping at the 2/3 mark so we could get questions.  This is where providing the annotated slide deck with my comments made me feel better so that they could still access what I had to say and the related content if they wanted to learn more and hear more.  Still, it was a bit of a rookie mistake that I'll need to do better with going forward.   Introduction Hi folks, I’m so glad to be here in community with you an