Category Archives: Writing, blogging

More ChatGPT practice in my writing group exercises

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

The arrival of generative AI is bringing lots of changes to my job as a college professor. I teach some humanities and social science courses (film and media studies, political science, digital society, etc.), but I also teach quite a … Continue reading →

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How ChatGPT helped me with my writing group exercises

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

My writing group does short exercises each week, and about three years ago I started sharing them (the prompt and my exercise in response) here in my blog. I don’t think I’ve shared an exercise in a while, but I … Continue reading →

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A Podcast to Follow

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Katherine Wikoff

School starts for me next week, with meetings this week and summer projects to wrap up. I’m staying home today, though. Because the Republican presidential primary debate is happening at Fiserv Forum in downtown Milwaukee tonight and some sort of … Continue reading →

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A haiku for October

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

As I was researching AI and art/text generation, doing prep for tomorrow’s Digital Society class, I came across a website purporting to use AI to create poetry. Skeptical but intrigued, I followed the prompts to enter a noun, an adjective, … Continue reading →

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Writing Exercise – “Looking in the Rearview Mirror”

Posted on July 16, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

I wrote this essay as my exercise for this week’s writing group meeting. The prompt was “looking in the rearview mirror.” When I was in high school, one of my friends used to pull out a little compact with a … Continue reading →

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Writing Exercise – “You left something behind”

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

I haven’t posted one of these exercises in a while. In fact, to my surprise, it has been well over a year! To recap: My longtime writing group (we’ve been together since 1991!) does short exercises to share each time … Continue reading →

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Adding free stock photos to your blog with quick, easy attribution

Posted on October 10, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

I was showing a student how to use free stock photos to illustrate an online project, and since I was doing the work anyway, I thought I’d put it here on my blog to share with anyone who was interested. … Continue reading →

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How I write blog posts in “Classic Editor”

Posted on July 3, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

It has been about a year now since WordPress introduced the new Gutenberg “block editor.” Although my impression is that the block editor is nice for building websites, it is not very user friendly for someone who just wants to … Continue reading →

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Writing Exercise – “Plain Talk”

Posted on March 14, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

It was my turn to select an exercise for writing group this week. Being incredibly busy at work and opting for shortcuts wherever legitimately possible, I turned to Ursula K. Le Guin’s wonderful Steering the Craft once again and found … Continue reading →

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Writing Exercise – “Protest Night”

Posted on January 9, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

Here’s an exercise from late October or early November. I can’t remember which member of our writing group assigned this exercise, but it’s another taken from Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea … Continue reading →

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