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The Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges invites you to an AI Professional Development Session to be held virtually on Thursday, September 19, 2024 from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. This session is open to the entire Lehigh community. Register now.

Schedule:

9 - 10:20 am: Basic Communications with AI - Enhanced Session by Mark Albert (DeSales University)

Using open AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini to improve basic communications in emails, documents and other means. AI can improve tone, syntax and conciseness to make for more effective communications.10:30 - 12 pm: Mastering Prompt Engineering: Optimizing AI Responses by James Monek (Lehigh University)

By strategically crafting prompts and having iterative conversations, users can guide models such as ChatGPT, to generate more accurate, relevant, and contextually appropriate responses. This interactive session will explore different options to handle tasks such as brainstorming ideas, content generation, improving writing, developing code, and generating images. Additionally, the session will address evaluation methodologies, including qualitative and quantitative metrics, to assess the effectiveness of prompts and model outputs.We hope you're able to join us!

Register now. You will receive a link to the recording after the event.

Sponsored by the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges

Learn the basics of getting started with AWS Quicksight to design reports, visualizations, and dashboards. Quicksight is a Tableau-like data visualization tool that is available as part of the Lehigh Administrative Data Lake platform. We’ll cover adding data sets, performing analysis, and generating visualizations to be available for the Lehigh community. We’ll also explore using Natural Language and AI to gain additional insights around data. No experience required but understanding of data preferred.

This seminar reviews the minimum essential ingredients required to build research computing projects on Linux platforms. Students will learn the basics of Linux, use shell scripts, Python, and the scheduler on our high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to perform simple calculations. This course will outline the best practices for scaling and repeating many kinds of calculations. All students, faculty, and staff with an interest in learning more about HPC and Linux are welcome to attend.

Make use of Google Calendar's built-in features to schedule small and large meetings at optimal times for attendees, without Doodle or flurries of email. This session goes through the tricks and features of Google Calendar for meeting management.

This seminar will provide an overview of editing your Drupal 10 website. This is recommended for anyone who has a Drupal 10 website and would like training, those who have had a one-on-one training and would like a refresher, or those who do not yet have a Drupal 10 website but would like a preview of what you will be getting.

Google has recently added to its mail merge capabilities. Come learn about effective use of this new mailing toolset.

Many exploratory research computing projects will eventually grow to require larger amounts of computational resources, either because they need to demonstrate that they are correct and reproducible, or to answer larger, more complicated research questions. This seminar will teach you to use the Lehigh high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to build parallel scientific software for answering larger questions using simple Linux tools along with the HPC scheduler (named SLURM)

Learn how you can improve your security posture by using Duo and LastPass. We'll cover the basics for multi-factor authenication and password management.

This is an overview of Banner. We will discuss the difference between Banner Admin and Self-Service Banner and provide a general navigation training. We will also discuss the security structure and how to gain access to Banner. There will also be time for Q&A.

Research computing projects of all sizes can benefit from interactive tools which make it easy to develop, debug, and visualize code and data on our local high-performance computing (HPC) systems. This seminar will demonstrate the use of a web portal to interact with your data and code, with a particular emphasis on connecting Jupyter notebooks to very large datasets and parallel computations.

In Qualtrics 201, you'll be shown some of the basics of building a survey. We'll highlight different question types, ways to improve the design and flow of your survey, set up some basic automation, and increase respondent satisfaction. There will also be time for Q&A if you have general or specific questions related to surveys.

“Prior planning promotes peak performance.” Using technology when traveling can be challenging. We will help you think about and prepare for successful and stress-free use of technology available from Lehigh while traveling within the U.S. or abroad, with a focus on security and connectivity.

This seminar will introduce you to Zotero, a tool to help you organize, track, manage, share, and cite references. The session will cover creating an account, importing references, structuring your reference libraries, and creating a bibliography.

This session is a primer for understanding key terms and concepts related to machine learning, generative AI, and artificial intelligence. The 60-minute seminar will interest faculty, staff, and students who want to explore answers to fundamental questions such as: What is generative AI? How do developers train a large language model? How does ChatGPT work? What should I know about advancements in AI in the past year? What are some cogent critiques of AI in the context of higher ed?

Through strategic crafting of prompts and engaging in iterative conversations, users can guide models like ChatGPT and Google Gemini to produce increasingly accurate, relevant, and contextually aligned responses. This interactive session will delve into various approaches for tackling diverse tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, generating content, refining writing, developing code, and creating images. Furthermore, the session will explore evaluation methodologies, encompassing qualitative and quantitative.

Get a DocuSign overview and introductory training from one of Lehigh's DocuSign specialists. We will cover some basic tips and tricks and well as discuss the different roles available for faculty and staff. Sign up now!

Research computing projects can have a large impact if they are portable and easy to share with new collaborators. In this seminar, you will learn how to package your scientific computations in a Linux-based container system (Docker and Apptainer). Containers can make it easy to take your work to larger public supercomputing centers, and improve the reproducibility and openness of your scientific software.

Whether you're on the front-lines of customer service or want to learn general strategies for de-escalating tense situations, this session can help! Learn practical, easy-to-remember phrases and techniques that defuse and de-escalate when things heat up. Presenters are members of LTS Client Services with years of experience providing services to varied populations.

Learn about lehigh's newest cloud storage option -- its setup, advantages, and features!

This session is an overview of Web Accessibility guidelines for anyone who maintains website content at Lehigh.

This is an overview of Argos, a reporting tool. We will go over the menu structure, explain how security is applied, show the various types of reporting options (dashboards, single reports, scheduled reports, etc.), and how people can gain access to Argos as either a report viewer or a report writer. There will also be time for Q&A.

For people with a modicum of Google Sheets or Excel experience, this is a chance to learn some popular formulas and how they are implemented in Google Sheets. This is an informal session that will demo uses of five popular Sheets formulas (also Excel). When you sign up, provide us with a little information about what you'd like to learn! To get the most out of this session you should be able to enter data in Google Sheets and be fairly proficient with Google menus.

When a research computing project evolves to answer more nuanced questions, it inevitably requires more computational power and generates more data. This seminar will teach you the best practices for storing large, complex datasets so they can easily be analyzed and mined for new insights. These methods will apply to any research questions that depend on big data.

This session is formerly called Data backup and Management, and has been updated to include changes to our storage quotas coming soon. This seminar offers best practices for caring for your files -- wherever they are -- and making sure you always have your data.

This session is intended as a basic introduction to accessibility for content creators who are unfamiliar with the topic and are looking for a quick start. We use MS Word to illustrate concepts of accessibility and give easy-to-implement, practical tips for creating documents that are accessible to broad audiences.

Whether you're sending announcements to large or small audiences, you'll learn easy steps you can take to ensure messages can be read easily by everyone, including folks who use assistive technologies. This short session gives easy hints that everyone can use today, without special tools or tech skills.

Make new discoveries with vital records ... Birth records are one of the cornerstones of family history research. Together with other vital records, they can be the answer to your brick wall. Get tips on searching in this new workshop!

This seminar is designed for participants who have completed the "Introduction to Visualizations and Dashboards using AWS QuickSight" and are ready to take their skills to the next level. Attendees will learn how to leverage AWS QuickSight to connect with the Lehigh Administrative Data Lake, enabling the creation of dynamic reports, insightful visualizations, and interactive dashboards.

This seminar will cover installing OpenRefine, uploading data, and navigating the OpenRefine environment. Participants will gain an understanding of when OpenRefine may or may not be appropriate to use over similar tools, like Excel or Google Sheets.

Geared toward intermediate or occasional spreadsheet users, in this seminar we will demonstrate AI tools within Excel and Google Sheets and show how to use free versions of AI tools like ChatGPT and CoPilot to design and document formulas and spreadsheets. Safe use of AI tools (protecting Lehigh data) will be emphasized and explained.

In this seminar, we will explore advanced DocuSign capabilities beyond basic electronic signatures, including the use of templates and PowerForms.

Learn how to find and analyze research with artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled tools in this exploratory session. This session will review the basics about different tools and provide some insights for comparing them. Time will be provided for questions, feedback, and experimentation.

This second part of "OpenRefine: Cleaning and Managing your Data" assumes you have OpenRefine installed on your computer and have data loaded in. Methods of data cleanup and management that OpenRefine offers will be covered, including some basic GREL commands, bringing information from one sheet into another, using basid RegEx to view data and more.