Tech-Neill-ogy #22 - 22 October 2023

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

Author

Jeffrey Neill
October 23, 2023

Welcome to newsletter #22!

Good morning from São Paulo! It’s always busy around here (see LinkedIn post here). However, we’re always still looking forward to sharing our weekly research with you! Next week, be on the lookout for some practical, not-necessarily-AI-related insights. It is not that AI is running short of news, as this week’s newsletter attests, but rather that there have been some requests for some specific tools to assist college counselors. Not all of them are AI-related!

And, thanks, as always, to those of you who share resources with me. I appreciate all of it! In any case, feel free to drop me an email at [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you!

Enjoy this week’s newsletter!

12 AI Tools Beyond ChatGPT That Can Save Teachers Time

AI tools that educators can use to save time, from award-winning educator Lance Key!

www.techlearning.com/news/10-ai-tools-beyond-chatgpt-that-can-save-teachers-time

Great Offerings!

Develop the skills necessary for advising college-bound students in this seven-course certificate program. These are not AI- or even tech-related, but there are some free trainings here!

www.uclaextension.edu/education/higher-education-adult-educators/certificate/college-counseling

Chain of Thought Prompting (CoT): Everything you need to know - Vellum

Chain of Thought prompting, when it's the right choice, and how it stacks up against other techniques.

www.vellum.ai/blog/chain-of-thought-prompting-cot-everything-you-need-to-know

5 ChatGPT Prompts To Validate A Business Idea

Entrepreneurs have ideas for new businesses every day. Use these 5 ChatGPT prompts to sense-check each idea, to sort the must-dos from those that should be left alone.

www.forbes.com/sites/jodiecook/2023/08/08/5-chatgpt-prompts-to-validate-a-business-idea

The Prompt Landscape

Prompt Engineering can steer LLM behavior without updating the model weights. A variety of prompts for different uses-cases have emerged (e.g., see @dair_ai’s prompt engineering guide and this excellent review from Lilian Weng). As the number of LLMs and different use-cases expand, there is increasing need

blog.langchain.dev/the-prompt-landscape

Narrato Workspace - AI Content Creation & Workflow Software

Narrato Workspace is an AI content creation, collaboration and workflow management tool built for content and marketing teams and creators.

narrato.io/ai-content-genie

Watto AI

Harness the power of AI to seamlessly integrate information from multiple platforms and generate documents in your desired format, all while saving 60% of your time.

www.watto.ai

AI Prompts and Automation Bots | Sintra AI

Unleash The Unlimited Potential of AI Prompts by Sintra AI. Streamline Work, Automate Processes, and Fuel Business Growth. Get 2500+ Free Prompts and Automation Bots Now!

sintra.ai

Akiflow - Centralize your schedule

Another one I’ve not yet had the chance to try, but the hype seems real!

akiflow.com

Expresso

Transforming workplace wellbeing with AI. This one is pretty cool in supporting mental health and wellbeing!

expresso.bio

Here is a simple one that can help college counselors, particularly in preparation for meetings with specific students: 

Based on a student’s interest in engineering, preference for a medium-sized campus, and desire to stay on the East Coast of the USA, can you generate a list of suitable colleges and a brief description of each?

I hope this gives you a little time back! As always, if you’d like to explore some of the other prompts I’ve shared here and elsewhere, check out this link. If you have any great prompts or questions about prompting, send me a note at [email protected].

I hope your October (Sucktober) is faring well. Good luck with those early apps!

Happy counseling,

Jeff