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In this sample Publishing, Writing and Media assignment, students practice creating a cover brief for a book. Through this process, students generate various styles of images with AI, explore editorial feel and tone, draft a brief, and justify their choices and processes. AI Tool Google Gemini - Nanobanana Summary Students use AI to draft potential cover art for a book, then submit a brief with their best images and an analysis of the quality and fit of the images and the us

In this sample Publishing, Writing and Media assignment, students practice creating and delivering a pitch for comparison titles (also known as comp titles) for a book. Through this process, students source existing titles with AI, then create and deliver a pitch to a classmate. AI Tool Google Gemini - Deep Research Summary: Students take on the role of an author and create a “Comp Title Pitch” for an existing book. The pitch is designed to help their publishing company und

In this sample Human Capital assignment, students practice creating a total compensation and benefits package for a specific role. Through this process, students practice researching and analyzing market trends, building and delivering a competitive package and assessing the usefulness of AI for this task. AI Tool Google Gemini / Gems Summary Students will use AI to analyze information about compensation packages for a specific role and industry. Using these insights, plus p

The Kaggle 5-Day Gen AI Intensive Course with Google is a free, self-paced deep dive into AI fundamentals. The curriculum comprises five units covering concepts and techniques for prompt engineering, databases, AI agents, domain-specific LLMs, and machine learning operations. The course could be great for students or professors with prior experience in coding and machine learning who want to get deeper into working with AI tools. For casual learners with more general topic-le

When I was a kid, storybooks were my everything. My favorite was the Geronimo Stilton series. I could spend hours flipping through those colorful pages, staring at the illustrations, and losing myself in all sorts of magical worlds. Books were my best friends. I had so many of them that after a while, my parents didn’t know what to do with the stacks piling up around the house. I didn’t just enjoy reading stories, I loved listening to them from my parents. Storytelling was, a

Brainstorming is one of the most fun parts of a design project. It is that moment when ideas are flowing freely that you can feel creativity taking shape in real time. For me, brainstorming always felt like something that I had to do alone and then get my ideas reviewed from my mentor. I didn’t imagine it happening inside a classroom along with my peers, at least not in a way that felt exciting. That changed when one of my professors, Professor Morales, introduced us to a bra