UT Health Science Center College of Health Professions faculty member Michael Weitzeil is our special AI user spotlight today. Michael is the Director of the Pathologists’ Assistant Program, and he is passionate about the benefits that AI tools offer. Read about his experiences and join Michael’s enthusiasm for leveraging instruction and coordination of the Pathologists’ Assistant Program.
I have used Copilot for the following:
- Generation of learning objectives for my lectures. As a new program, we have had to write dozens of lectures over the past few years. Writing learning objectives that meet accreditation standards is laborious and challenging. Uploading a lecture into Copilot and asking it to write learning objectives with Bloom’s Taxonomy action verbs that mirror the three levels of learning for that lecture has been an incredibly efficient use of my time.
- Use of Google Notebook LM – I created lectures for an embryology course that I co-teach, and for each of those lectures, I was able to get AI to generate vocabulary lists, practice questions, sample essays, and even generate a podcast discussion about the lecture content, which I shared with the students.
- I have found Copilot incredibly useful for the generation of emails to students and colleagues, especially when the topics are sensitive or when clarity is essential; of course, I use the generated emails as templates, which I build off of. The amount of time saved using AI in this capacity has made me more efficient at completing time-consuming responsibilities.
To begin your own Copilot journey, log in with your UT Health Science Center credentials to access Microsoft Copilot @ https://oit.utk.edu/ai/