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Observing Humanity
A friend tells me that he believes he’s an Alien observing humanity. As a fan of live music, he often watches people acting… strangely. So I’ve started illustrating his life in DALL-E via ChatGPT. We started rather abstractly, since Pizza is a common food eaten at these outings. My friend objected though to the religious …
Still Not Fat Again
Over the past year, I’ve maintained my weight within 10 pounds of my goal and introduced diverse exercise routines, including running and strength training with planks. I improved my 5K personal record by learning proper running techniques through Nike Run Club. Flexibility exercises and future outdoor activities like hiking and camping are part of my evolving fitness journey.
Essay Structure
In Battling Pickle Podcast 53 I mention a handout on essay structure. Here it is!
An AI Interviews Your Professor, Dr. Westfall
Each year I try to put together a “About Me” page or post for my new students to help get to know me a bit better. This year I figured I’d ask an AI (Microsoft Copilot in this case) the following prompt: Imagine that you’re a new student at a University and you decide to …
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My 2023 Musical Tastes… Analyzed by ChatGPT and Visualized by NightCafe
AI Analyzes my musical tastes.
About Your Instructor
Our learning management system asks us to write an “About your Instructor” page for our students. Here’s Fall 2023’s – I think I’ve reached peak “This is who I am”… I was born last century, the only offspring of artists who both never had the opportunity to complete a college degree. From an early age …
Download All Canvas Submission Comments In Bulk!
I teach a variety of courses where I give comments to students that I sometimes like to re-use or modify for the next semester (Typically combining with a tool like TextExpander). Recently I created a course with about 25 different assignments, and I wanted to be able to download all of the submission comments. But …
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BattlingPickle’s PsychOut Discord
A colleague and I are creating a Discord server to discuss psychology and all things related (Technology, community, academia, culture, etc…) We’re hoping to use it with our students, and our colleagues and friends. If you’d like to join in, head over to https://go.jonwestfall.com/psychout and jump in. Right now just a few channels in there …
What Is The Biggest Myth in Psychology?
Each semester I teach General Psychology, I do an activity where I ask a series of True/False questions to determine if my students believe some of the biggest “myths” of the field. Recently I asked our excellent Graduate Assistant to pull the previous semesters (5 in total) and report the percentage of people who got …