Technology Engagement Group

How better to build an appetite for new technology than to attend our lunchbytes, short, informal, lunchtime discussions of accessible new or lesser known technologies that might just change the way you work... or at least whet your appetite for more digital goodness?

No need to book! Join us online via Zoom anywhere there is a wifi connection.

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Keenious is a free tool that analyses your writing and shows you the most relevant research from millions of online publications. Discover how it can help you with your research.

When: Thursday 4 April, 12:00-13:00

Chef: Isabel Virgo and Aaron Worsley-Burke

Time lapses (and associated hyper lapses) and now frequently used in video productions to quickly show action that takes place over long periods of time. Discover how you too can make your own time lapse content.

When: Thursday 22 February, 12:00-13:00

Chef: Gerard Helmich

Using Miro inside Google Meet for whiteboarding needs

Miro is a free interactive whiteboard app - see how this software works inside Google Meet and how Miro could be of use to you.

When: Monday 25 March, 12:00-13:00

Chef: Melanie Bashor

TEG Special: Teaching with ChatGPT

The Technology Engagement Group (TEG) is back with a special session for the AI curious! We are going to 'play' with ChatGPT, a new AI language model that responds to your text prompts like a human would. We are going to look at what the tool can do and some examples of how it can used for teaching.

Facilitators: Isabel Virgo, Dr Mary Davis, Martha O'Curry, Harry Kalantzis

Meet our Cricut machine

Have you ever wanted to cut your custom designs in different shapes and materials? Join Gerard to show us the magic of a Cricut machine!

Chef: Gerard Helmich

Citavi - note-taking and reference management all in one place

Citavi is an all-in-one referencing and note-taking solution available for Windows PCs or via a web browser on all platforms. It integrates with Microsoft Word for document creation. Discover the benefits of this interesting reference management and knowledge organization tool in our TEG session.

Chef: Alex Friend

GatherTown

Gather Town is a web-conferencing software like Zoom, but with the added component of seeing the virtual “room” you and others are occupying, and with the ability to move around and interact with other participants based on your locations in the room, just like real life.

Chef: Paul Henshall

Slack - an effective communication tool for teams

Slack is a communication tool offering chat rooms, private groups, video conferencing and direct messaging. Come and discover how Slack is already being used by some departments within Brookes and find out what impact it has had on their daily work.

Chefs: Adam Ritchie (Tuesday) and Mina Samangooei (Thursday)

Photography and AI for all

Artificial Intelligence can be used by all of us to improve our existing or new images. Do you have a priceless but blurry photo? Use AI to sharpen it and remove camera shake or motion blur. Need to print a large photo from a small image file? Use a tool to boost the apparent megapixel size. Need to colourise an old black and white image? Come and learn about these tools and more in our AI and photography session.

Chefs: Harry Kalantzis and Gerard Helmich