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Good morning, it's Tech Tuesday: Your Weekly Dose of Tech Inspiration and Exploration! It's the end of NaNoWriMo and you might be ready to create an image for the cover of your novel. Here is one way you can accomplish that task.

• 3 AI Tools to create an image for your novel cover

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Good morning, it's Tech Tuesday: Your Weekly Dose of Tech Inspiration and Exploration! This week's edition will help prepare you to prepare for the holidays.

• AI prompt for using AI to interview you about a particular topic
• AI interview prompts ideas for your students
• Meet Ivan AuthorInterview chatbot who is waiting to interview you about the novel you are writing this month

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• YouTube Video to a...

For the month of November, the Tech Tuesday Inspiration guides will be focused on AI and writing in the spirit of National Novel Writing Month.

In this week’s Tech Tuesday, I share how to use Character AI to build out a character for a novel, story, or chatbot. If you’re just starting with character building and want to see how artificial intelligence can help you with that process, it’s a great application to explore.

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Tech Tuesday Inspiration Guide

For the month of November, the Tech Tuesday Inspiration guides will be focused on AI and writing in the spirit of National Novel Writing Month. If you are interested in joining us with this challenge click this link to register. This challenge is open to everyone so please share with anyone that you think might be interested in a 30-day challenge to write a novel.

In this episode, I share several...

It's time for Tech Tuesday! In this week's episode, I have exciting information and resources specifically curated for you and your students.

Join me as I dive into the fascinating world of AI and its role in the writing process. Discover how AI can enhance and enrich the writing experience for students.

Learn about innovative teaching techniques that empower professors to effectively integrate AI into their classrooms. I&#...

In this podcast, we explore the nonobvious connections in the world with the goal of engineering unique or meaningful learning experiences. What are you observing in your corner of the world?

Topics of ramblings this episode:

• It is a time of innovation!
• Monetizing programs and your own personal expertise
• Gamification of learning to retain students
• Personalized learning and unique learning experiences to help students bui...

The summer is over and we are back to teaching! How are you leveraging social media to increase enrollment and grow your programs? I share what we are thinking and working on in this area. How neat would it be if all your students authored and published a book that can be sold for profit when they complete your course? I discuss how you can make this possible for your students.  I also provide an update on my summer projects since ...

The sabbatical project comes to an end, but not really so I provide an update on the virtual character development. I share what I am doing with the Keepster app and how you might want to use it for teaching and finishing up with summer project ideas. Please share what projects you plan to take on this summer.

Links mentioned in the podcast:

• Dialogflow for conversation design of chatbots - https://dialogflow.cloud.google...

I have been in the "zone" working on my sabbatical project but I took time out today to create a podcast of updates. I share the tools I have been using to build the virtual character and some other fun information. Enjoy the show and feel free to share jokes that I can add to the conversation flow of the character.

• Article mentioned in the podcast: 40 Small Talk Questions Your Chatbot Needs to Know (And Why It Matters): http...

North American Simulation and Game Association (NASAGA) Conference share out and a Sabbatical Project update. Below is a list of the links and resources I share in this week's podcast. Thank you for listening!

NASAGA links and resources:

• 1985 Murder Mystery Party: https://www.mymysteryparty.com/murder-in-1985-a-virtual-murder-mystery/
• Escape Room using Google Forms example: https://www.bespokeclassroom.com/blog/2019/10/4/how...

This week I share the tools and steps I am taking to conduct a Oral History Analysis and build an augmented reality mobile application. Do you have questions or would you like to share your own experience? Please share using this voice message: https://anchor.fm/innovative-teaching/message. If you ask a question, please let me know if it would be okay to use your voice asking the question in my podcast.

Have an awesome week ev...