Learning AI Together: A Practical Workshop on Scenarios and Frameworks

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Session Description:

Join us to learn about scenarios and sample prompts for common tasks, including an overview of common prompt engineering frameworks to try. Examples include summarizing long e-mails or reports, creating meeting summaries, drafting executive summaries, and even letting AI help you learn about AI! This session is a brief presentation followed by time and space to try things out with assistance from the three workshop coordinators.

Learning Outcomes:

  •  Understanding where can apply GenAI in our daily work through scenarios

  • Learning different prompt engineering frameworks and strategies

  • Gaining time and ideas to kickoff or strengthen your comfort using AI in the workplace - it's ok to experiment!

Session Structure:

Experiential workshop

Presenters:

Alison Hitchens (she/her), Associate University Librarian – Collections – Technology - Scholarly Communication, Libraries

Tonya Elliott (she/her), Strategic Enablement Team Analyst, Co-operative and Experiential Education (CEE)

Shah Chandon (he/him), Information Systems Specialist, IST