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Syllabus Statement Guidance (Updated for 26-27 School Year)
James D’Annibale, Director of Academic & Emerging Technologies This version was updated July 2026 based on the guidance published in July 2025. The changes to the guidance portion are minimal and reflect changes to available technology and changes in higher education pedagogical practices. This document offers guidance on how to clearly identify and implement policies…
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Updates to the Foreign Language Chatbot
Thank you to our computer science intern Hillary Zhong, we have several updates to the chatbot. (Only available on campus) Professors creating prompts can now choose from any of the provided voices available via OpenAI. Instructions can be included for the students as well. Finally, for grading professors can quickly see the number of times…
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AI Chatbots for Foreign Languages
In a previous post, I described updates we have made to our Dickinson Chatbot. There are other free chatbots that can be used for practicing foreign languages as well, that you may prefer. The best one I’ve seen is from AI School. For most faculty here, we won’t run into caps on their free version…
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Update to Foreign Language Chatbot
We have made several important upgrades to the foreign language chatbot, adding audio for verbal conversations and the ability for professors to view transcripts of their students’ conversations. I’ve created at least one demo chatbot for each foreign language taught at Dickinson to give an idea of what’s possible. Keep in mind these bots can…
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Syllabus Statement Guidance (Updated for 26-27 School Year)
James D’Annibale, Director of Academic & Emerging Technologies This version was updated July 2026 based on the guidance published in July 2025. The changes to the guidance portion are minimal and reflect changes to available technology and changes in higher education pedagogical practices. This document offers guidance on how to clearly identify and implement policies…
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Transparent Assignment Design in the Age of AI
James D’Annibale, Director of Academic & Emerging Technologies Originally written July 2025. This version was updated July 2026. The changes to the guidance portion are minimal and reflect changes to available technology and changes in higher education pedagogical practices. The “Example Assignment Briefs” have been totally overhauled to reflect real assignments done at Dickinson College…
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Sample AI Related Syllabus Statements
James D’Annibale, Director of Academic Technology Introduction This document provides a set of sample syllabus statements designed to help faculty consider and communicate their policies on generative AI in their courses. These examples reflect a range of pedagogical approaches — from full integration of AI tools to complete prohibition — and are intended to spark…
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Dickinson AI Symposium
Academic Technology gave several presentations during the AI symposium. Thank you to everyone who attended. We also understand it is a difficult time for faculty and students to attend. Below is a brief synopsis of our presentations and notes. James and Todd are both happy to meet with anyone if you have questions or see…
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AI Generated Art
Written by: William Milberry (milberrw@dickinson.edu) I’ve been an avid photographer for over 20 years and consider myself a little bit of an artist. I think there is a lot of cross-over between using generative AI and photography or even other forms of visual art. Long ago I read the books of legendary photographer Ansel Adams…
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How I used AI in German 102
We used AI several times in German 102, and overall I found it very helpful. The most frequently used tool was the chatbot we developed over the summer. You can embed it within a Moodle course along with custom instructions to create scenarios via ChatGPT’s API. Students can also now send a transcript of their…
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Brightspace Project Updates
We will use the Dickinson Today announcement feature to share information and updates. We’ll keep an archive of those communications here. Copy of email that was sent on 3/10/25 to faculty that will be using Brightspace in Fall 2025: Thank you again for signing up to transition from Moodle to Brightspace for this coming Fall.…
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Useful updates to NotebookLM and ChatGPT
We will continue to provide updates on any changes to AI platforms we think may be useful for faculty and students. If you have suggestions of your own, whether for new tools, updates, or how you’ve used them, please let us know in the comments or send an email to academictechnology@dickinson.edu NotebookLM can create text…