12 Media Webinars this week about AI, journalism, storytelling, NIL, and more

Mon, Oct 9 - The Darkening Tide of Digital Repression and the Risks of Journalistic Reluctance 2023

What: This seminar examines why journalists often fail to take the necessary information security steps to better protect themselves, their sources, and their stories, despite ongoing threats to journalism.  

Who: Jennifer R. Henrichsen, Assistant Professor at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University

When: 3:10 pm, Pacific

Where: Microsoft Teams

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Washington State University

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Mon, Oct 9 - Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI: Empowering a Deeper Conversation

What: Navigating the positive and effective uses of AI and generative AI within K-12 school settings. Seven essential guidelines recommended for school superintendents and school leaders when implementing actionable steps and policies around AI and generative AI will be described.

Who: Matthew Friedman currently serves as the Superintendent of Schools in the Quakertown Community School District in Pennsylvania; Kelly May-Vollmar is the Superintendent of Desert Sands Unified School District, California; David Miyashiro is Superintendent of Cajon Valley Union School; Pete Just, CETL serves as the Executive Director of the Indiana CTO Council. District, California.

When: 5 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsors: The School Superintendents Association, The Consortium for School Networking, ClassLink

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Tue, Oct 10 - Storytelling for Impact

What: Tips, techniques and tools to help the modern marketer tell better and more impactful stories to activate their audiences around ideas and actions.

Who: Kiersten Hill Director of Nonprofit Solutions for FireSpring

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: FireSpring

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Tue, Oct 10 - Boost your reporting with data visualization: a toolkit for journalists

What: The basics of data visualization for journalists. By the end, you'll have everything you need to make your own charts and share them with your audience.

When: 11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Flourish

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Tue, Oct 10 - How ChatGPT Reduces Costs and Time by 70% in Lesson Writing - See a Proof in Action

What: What is the overview of the ChatGPT ecosystem and the tools and plug-ins you can use?  What are the learning platforms that can integrate with ChatGPT and reduce your cost? What are the steps to take so ChatGPT can be used to reduce research, writing, and development effort and expenditures? How do you deal with copyright and ownership of the content? What ChatGPT tools can you use in graphics, videos, and animation?  

Who: Ray Jimenez, Ph.D. Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com, Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning. He spent 15 years with Coopers & Lybrand in the areas of management consulting and implementation of learning technology solutions.

When: 12 noon, Pacific

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: OpenSesame

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Wed, Oct 11 - Interpretable AI, algorithmic accountability, and AI ethics

What: What is interpretable machine learning? How can we make algorithms accountable for their decisions? How can we better explain how AI works in critical situations?

Who: Dr Stylianos Kampakis who has more than 10 years of experience in the area of data science working with organisations of all sizes on topics like data strategy and algorithm design.

When:11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: The Tesseract Academy

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Wed, Oct 11 - Athletes as Influencers: Working With NIL, Pros and Retired Players

What: Get best practices and actionable strategies to activate and optimize your athlete influencer relationships.  

Who: Giancarlo Morena Sr. Director of Marketing Celsius, Jared Kozinn Head of Sports  Partnerships  Dansons, Pit Boss; Bob Lynch CEO and Founder  SponsorUnited        

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: AdWeek

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Wed, Oct 11 - Digital Marketing for Nonprofits with HootSuite

What: Gain invaluable insights from industry experts on how to effectively manage and market your social media channels. Learn the dos and don'ts of social media management specifically tailored for nonprofits. Have your pressing questions answered in real time during our open Q&A session following the presentation.

When: 12 noon, Central

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: TechSoup

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Thu, Oct 12 - Ideas That Will Instantly Grow Your Audience

What: Implementing a simple, but effective SEO strategy that will immediately get you results; Social media tactics that uses Meta’s tools to quickly grow your audience; How to take traditional topics like education and sports and build fast digital-only features that are useful, searchable and shareable; AI approaches that will help you create content efficiently but ethically.

Who: David Arkin, the owner of David Arkin Consulting and Tara Jones, who works for his consulting firm as a digital content strategist.

When: 1 pm, Central

Where: Zoom

Cost: $35

Sponsor: Online Media Campus

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Thu, Oct 12 - Telling Hard Stories: 2023 Dart Awards Celebration & Winners' Roundtable

What: Questions of craft, ethics and storytelling, and explore innovative best practices in hard-hitting, humane reporting on violence and tragedy.

Who: Janelle Nanos, Enterprise Reporter, The Boston Globe; Raquel Rutledge, Investigations Editor, The Examination News; Meg Shutzer, Investigative Journalist and Documentary Filmmaker; Connie Walker, Host, Gimlet, a Spotify Studio; John Woodrow Cox, Enterprise Reporter, The Washington Post

When: 6 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma

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Thu, Oct 12 - Reading Instruction and AI: New Strategies for the Big Education Challenges of Our Time

What: Experts in the field explore these instructional pain points and offer game-changing guidance for K-12 leaders and educators.

Who: Brandi Renfro Educational Consultant, Promethean; Lauraine Langreo Staff Writer, Education Week; Glenn Kleiman Senior Adviser, Stanford Graduate School of Education; Julie Cohen Charles S. Robb Associate Professor,  University of Virginia's School of Education and Human Development and others

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Education Week

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Fri, Oct 13 - How journalists can (and should) start using AI in their work 

What: A practical look at what journalists need to know about AI tools and their applications within journalistic work. Best practices for using AI in the newsroom.

Who: Francesco Marconi, a computational journalist, and the co-founder of AI company Applied XL, formerly R&D Chief at The Wall Street Journal and AI Co-Lead at the Associated Press,

When: 11:30 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: National Press Club

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