josh-welsh.bsky.social
@josh-welsh.bsky.social
Professor of Rhetoric and Tech Comm at CWU, Ellensburg Working to bring docs-as-code to academia with https://sheetbend.app/bsky Trailrunner, Pickleball Player, Dad
I made Reading Faulkner in the Age of Thinking Machines as a gambit of sorts—could I make something using AI that students would want to engage with and read and not offload to AI? open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...
Reading In An Age Of Thinking Machines
I’m releasing a project I created to help my online students read, with the hope that others might be able to use, adapt, or otherwise feel inspired to try something new this coming semester.
open.substack.com
"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...
I'm tinkering with a tool that will help generate assessment criteria based on a given assignment prompt. My test assignment prompt is the good old "Complaint letter, Response letter, Reflective essay." My kids wanted to try it with D&D criteria. I kind of love it:
There are useful things you can create with AI code that function without AI and allow students to think about their values before turning to a chatbot. One example: I adapted the Pause Before Your Prompt activity from BU for my online classes, to include reflection and a visual PDF export.
I built a free tool to make it easier to compare students' drafts with their revisions. It runs completely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded and it uses only open-source, non-AI tools. sheetbend.app/tools/revisi...
How would you define AI literacy? What skills, competencies, and understandings do we need to be teaching our students to be able to function in the world that AI Companies and others are creating for them?
Something to consider in light of Fable and other resource intensive frontier models— will any firm even have the capacity to run advanced models for hundreds of millions of users? www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026...
Only half of US datacenter capacity planned for 2026 is actually under construction
Another fun example of AI hype and reality colliding
theregister.com
You've got a lot of expertise, but not many people know about it. Fix that. → What's the one thing you're doing this month to get your work out there?
We shouldn't destroy ourselves in arguments about AI. campuses need to focus on conversations that allow faculty to form shared values and shape what role, if any, AI should have in education. open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...
We Shouldn't Destroy Ourselves Fighting About AI
How we talk to one another about AI needs to improve.
open.substack.com
Since my old static site generator finally slipped over the event horizon of bitrot, I started over with mkdocs-material. It's not really intended for running a research blog that make heavy use of Jupyter Notebooks, so I built a tool on to of it to make it easy. Introducing... mkprof. Blogs away!
"Google's own artificial intelligence team just staged one of the most stunning internal revolts in tech history — and it's aimed squarely at a deal the company signed with the Pentagon." via Your Daily Updates
Super excited to try for a speaker's slot at @writethedocs.bsky.social Berlin this year!
⚠️ Less than one week left to submit a talk for Write the Docs Berlin! CFP closes June 1st, 23:59 CEST. Any questions or doubts, read up on our CFP page, ask on our Slack or mail us on berlin@writethedocs.org. Most of all: don't miss the deadline. We look forward to your proposals! buff.ly/OH4sJbt
Call for Proposals
It’s that time of year again: We’re now accepting talk proposals for our next in-person Berlin conference, on September 6-8, 2026. Like last year, we’re also accepting a few pre-recorded talks by r...
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