Tech-Neill-ogy #32 - 21 January 2024

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

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Jeffrey Neill
January 22, 2024

Welcome to Tech-Neill-ogy #32!

Good morning, friends!

As I write this, we are up to 386 recipients signed up for this newsletter! I thank all of you who have shared this resource with your networks as they keep trickling in! The news is honestly harder and harder to keep up with. As I shared a few months ago, I am inundated with new apps and tools, with more and more coming out seemingly every day. However, the newest development really has been the amount others are writing about it. Lots of interesting stuff, even more than I can include. That said, if you encounter something particularly interesting, please do share! Feel free to drop me an email at [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you!

OpenAI announces first partnership with a university

Starting in February, Arizona State University will have full access to OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise.

www.cnbc.com/2024/01/18/openai-announces-first-partnership-with-a-university.html

ChatGPT prompts parents can use to support their children’s university search

Addressing the concerns of parents regarding their children’s university plans is a key focus at my school.

www.timeshighereducation.com/counsellor/managing-stakeholders/chatgpt-prompts-parents-can-use-support-their-childrens-university

Why we should be embracing AI

Some of my own musings on using AI!

www.timeshighereducation.com/counsellor/counsellor-insight/why-we-should-be-embracing-ai-jeff-neill

Speaking to students about how to use AI ethically

AI has emerged as a significant tool in the realm of educational technology, with ChatGPT-4 assuming a leading role in driving this paradigm shift. As counsellors, we possess a distinct opportunity to provide guidance to our students in using these tools in an ethical manner to augment their essay-writing processes for university applications. 

www.timeshighereducation.com/counsellor/sector-trends/speaking-students-about-how-use-ai-ethically

What OpenAI’s New GPT Store Means for Educators

OpenAI is making customized versions of ChatGPT much more easily available, including many education-specific tools.

www.techlearning.com/news/what-openais-new-gpt-store-means-for-educators

UCAS AI Personal Statement Builder

The personal statement is your opportunity to talk about you, and why you want to enroll on a particular course. But it can be hard to know how to structure the information, which is where the personal statement builder can really help.

www.ucas.com/undergraduate/applying-university/writing-personal-statement/introducing-personal-statement-tool

Hermeso

Your AI Travel Guide. This is a new one, but, at first blush, it is quite powerful. I look forward to playing with it more!

hermeso.app

Dinnerfy - Put Dinner on Autopilot

AI App that automated dinner menus and grocery shopping with few swipes and 3 clicks.

www.dinnerfy.com

Byrdhouse - AI Voice Translation & Live Interpretation

Byrdhouse provides AI-powered, real-time translation in voice and captions for 100+ languages for your meetings, calls, and chats. I tested this one out, and it was amazing!

byrdhouseapp.com

Online diagramming for the Web and AI

You can make any type of diagram easily with smart shapes, publish on the Web and generate code with vision AI. Pretty nifty…

dgm.sh/home

OK. This is a fun one. In this new year, I’ve got a goal of being more mindful and intentional about my social media use and presence. Yeah, there’s a lot going on in that sentence! That said, I’ve been exploring ways in which ChatGPT can assist me with this. This is just one example. 

Start a debate about [topic], and then turn it into a Twitter thread. Be bold, original, opinionated, and polarizing.

To explore this one, I executed this prompt with an interesting topic and posted it (with a disclaimer) on my Twitter account. See below to see the output!

As always, if you’d like to explore some of the other hacks, tips, and 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].

That’s it for this week! I am finally returning to work today after our luxurious, South American summer holiday. I hope you all enjoy!

And happy counseling,

Jeff