LINC-405: Fall 2023

LINC-405: Fall 2023

Technology Skills Workshops
Foothill College: Fall 2023

Instructors: William Cavada,
Gene Tognetti, Kim Randall

October 10-December 6, 2023

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

Preface: For my VTA Clipper Card Bus Pass to be valid, registered for Will Cavada's LINC-083A "Adobe Premiere" class on August 31, 2023. Noticed on October 14, that Kim Randall registered me for LINC-405 class, so I dropped LINC-083A class on "Adobe Premiere" with
Will Cavada, as I don't have the software to use it at home, and need to take Bus #40 to Foothill Campus KCI to work. Al Guzman helped in registering for LINC-405: Summer 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, and Spring 2023, LINC-405 Schedule has changed for Fall 2023— Gene Tognetti teaching Tuesday, 7:00-7:45 pm; Will Cavada teaching Wednesday, 7:00-7:45 pm; No more Q&A Sessions with Kim Randall (6:30-7:00 pm) like
Spring 2023. She'll be doing the grading. I've summarized the assignments done for Fall 2023.

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Oktoberfest
In Munich, Germany

1. Writing a Poem about Autumn
(October 24, 2023)
Told Will Cavada my troubles with Adobe Photoshop— Can't see image on the screen.
Suggested "Command +" to bring image up; Go to Applications folder, and do "Uninstall Adobe Photoshop CC 2019", then reinstall.
Tried this, but still didn't work. For autumn poem, sent Cavada my poem "October"
with 20 images as illustations.

Black Cat
& Halloween Pumpkins

Children Going
"Tricks or Treats" 2. Halloween Haikus 2023
(October 31, 2023): Gene Tognetti didn't show up for his Tuesday LINC-405 Skills Workshop 7:00-7:45 pm; Since he did AI Adobe Firefly in his last workshop
(6-29-2023), I'm submitting my poem "Halloween Haikus 2023", comparing 9 of my rhyming 17-syllables Haikus with those AI generated Haikus & ChatGPT.
Halloween Pumpkin
Amidst Clouds of Mist

Racecar in Forest 3. Gene Tognetti: Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023
LINC-405 Skills Workshop 7:00-7:45 pm
Gene used Google's Bard to generate AI "Racecar
in the Forest" & "Ford Mustang Car" with Haiku— "Sleek steed of the track / Mustang roars with thundering heart, / Victory in sight." Also used "Duet" in Google Slides. My Bard generated Racecar are shown here. Haiku: "Forest road unfurls, / Racecar's sleek form blurs through trees, / Engine's fiery song."
Racecar in Forest 2

William Cavada 4. William Cavada: Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2023
LINC-405 Skills Workshop 7:00-7:45 pm
Cavada didn't show up for his LINC-405 Zoom Session today; May have lumped Location & Password as one word, so as Zoom swirled for Cavada to open Workshop, it never happened. Location: "https://fhda-edu.zoom.us/j/5825048716?pwd=RysxY2FTN21HTEF5R0hEdzhPSU8vZz09" Should have separated "Location" from "Password" to get into Zoom Session.
(Gene had Location: https://fhda-edu.zoom.us/j/3347034289 without password to get into his Zoom Session.)
November 2023 Calendar

Health & Mountains Background 5. Gene Tognetti: Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023
LINC-405 Skills Workshop 7:00-7:28 pm
Gene showed his favorite features in Google Drive. He likes "My Drive" (all contents); "Shared with Me" (Web links sent to him, including "Bette Davis Eyes" song I sent him); Recent (revised material); "Health People Pursuits Places" he found on a Retirement site. I could not find Gene's image of "Health People Pursuits Places" with graphics of "Mountain in the background". Found "Health Quadrant" in Google Images and wrote rhyming 8-couplets poem "Health People Pursuits Places"
Health Quadrant

Traffic Cone 6. Gene Tognetti: Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023
LINC-405 Skills Workshop 7:00-7:31 pm
Gene showed "Animation in Google Slides"; Taped today's Zoom Session
for me to study. Instructions from Kristen Higgins making animation video;
Gene downloaded a red racecar and a traffic cone ( scaled smaller than racecar)— with car speeding by traffic cone. Lots of "duplicating slides" and dragging car forward with "Left Arrow Key" to simulate motion. Changed Higgins' "1000"
to "500" to speed up car's motion.
Red Racecar

Paul Brunton
(1898-1981) 7. William Cavada: Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023
LINC-405 Skills Workshop 7:00-7:45 pm
Cavada didn't show up for today's Zoom Session even though it was scheduled the day before Thanksgiving. Waited from 7:00-8:00 pm, but he never opened the class. Decided to compare my poem "This Is the Sage" with those generated by AI. Asked ChatGPT and Google Bard to write rhyming 8-couplets poem "This Is the Sage-3". While it took me two hours to compose my poem, both ChatGPT & Google Bard did it in 6 minutes. ChatGPT did not provide any images of Sages. Bard provided image of the plant Sage. When I asked for "Wise Sage", got image of Bearded Sage on Mountaintop, ChatGPT & Bard have millions of poems in their database, far more than my memory & books. I'm impressed at their poems, but like mine better
Shankara
(686-718)

Mountains 8. Gene Tognetti: Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023
LINC-405 Skills Workshop 7:00-7:31 pm
Gene showed "Animation in Google Slides"; Instructions from Kristen Higgins making animation video. Told Gene I'll have a "Hawk Flying over Mountains" as my animation video. He thought that's a good idea. First, I downloaded an image of "Red-tailed Hawk" in a light blue background, but it's hard to find "Mountains" with the same color. It's easier to have both images with transparent background as shown here.
On 11/28 LINC-405 Class, Gene Tognetti helped me with Animation.
Hawk Flying

Squirrel Running 9. Gene Tognetti: Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023
LINC-405 Skills Workshop 7:00-7:47 pm
Gene showed "Animation-2 in Google Slides"; Taped today's Zoom Session. Kristen Higgins Instructions making animation video; Gene downloaded a Dog Running and a Squirrel Running (scaled Squirrel smaller than Dog)— Duplicated slides and dragging Dog forward with "Left Arrow Key" to simulate motion. Changed Higgins' "1000" to "250" to speed up dog's motion. Animation.
Dog Running

Bank Robber Running 10. Gene Tognetti: Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023
LINC-405 Skills Workshop 7:00-7:47 pm
I planned on "Cheetah Catching a Rabbit", but it's too similar to Gene's "Dog Chasing a Squirrel". Then thought of a "Spaceship Going to the Moon". Finally decided on "Policeman Chasing a Bank Robber" Found transparent background images of Policeman Running and a Bank Robber Running with Money. Lots of "duplicating slides" and dragging Policeman forward with "Left Arrow Key" to simulate motion. Changed Higgins' "1000" to "250" to speed up Policeman's chase. Animation.
Policeman Chasing

ChatGPT: "Enlightenment" 11. William Cavada: Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023
LINC-405 Skills Workshop 7:00-7:45 pm
Have not seen Will Cavada in 3 weeks; He had no lesson plan today; Asked me to write a poem, comparing it to AI generated ChatGPT & Google Bard, with illustrations from Adobe Firefly, ChatGPT, & Bard. After having a dream about "Enlightenment" (Dec. 1), will write a poem on this topic, with similar poems by ChatGPT & Google Bard. Google Images has 400 photos on "Spiritual Enlightenment" & Google has 5,390,000 results on this subject.
Bard: "Enlightenment"

Gene Tognetti 12. Gene Tognetti: Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023
LINC-405 Skills Workshop 7:00-7:30 pm
For today's LINC-405 Zoom Session, Gene Tognetti showed using AI in Google Sheets— 1. Vancouver Visit with Expenses; 2. Birthday List with Food Preferences;
3. Poets with Works Written; 4. Auto Repairs & Costs.
Gene said I may not have access to AI Google Sheets like "Duet" AI didn't open for me in Google Slides as I'm no longer a Foothill instructor as Gene Tognetti is right now.
Google Sheets

Stanford Theatre Marquee 13. Stanford Theatre Movies: Tues., Dec. 5, 2023
LINC-405 Skills Workshop 7:00-7:30 pm
In today's LINC-405 Zoom Session, after Gene Tognetti used AI in Google Sheets on 4 topics, he said I need do just one topic in Google Sheets;
Told him I'll do one on "Stanford Theatre Movies"
with Dates, Directors, Movies, Cast, Film Reviews, & YouTube Videos. On Dec. 12's Zoom Session, Gene showed me how to add rows in cell for more cast members using "Text Wrapping".
Google Sheets of Holiday Movies

Coconut Battery:
MacBook Air 14. Coconut Battery: Tues., Dec. 12, 2023
LINC-405 Skills Workshop 7:30-8:26 pm
In today's LINC-405 Zoom Session, Gene Tognetti showed me
to download free software coconutbattery to Applications Folder to check battery health of laptop. Gene's Mac Laptop is down to 26%; May spend $200 for new set of batterries. My 2016 Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6 Laptop's battery is 84% (Good). Showed Gene what I did on Google Sheets. How to get Links to Film Reviews & Video Trailers; (Click Link below URL). Also adding row for more cast members. Click on "Text Wrapping" ("Curved Arrow" between Vertical Align "Arrow downward" & Text Rotation (A underline arrow); Click "wrap" curved arrow.
"Three Smart Girls Grow Up" (1939)
Click on Link below URL for Video

Beethoven (1804) 15. William Cavada: Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023
LINC-405 Skills Workshop 7:00-7:45 pm
This is the last class for LINC-405 for Fall 2023. Wrote poems comparing my compositions to those generated by ChatGPT & Google Bard— "This Is the Sage-3" (11-20) & "Enlightenment" (12-3). This appeared last week: "Google updates Bard chatbot with 'Gemini' AI" (By Cade Metz & Nico Grant, NY Times, Mercury News, December 7, 2023, C9-C10). Google claimed Gemini's most powerful version outperformed OpenAI's latest technology GPT-4. Let's see if Google's Gemini is better than ChatGPT in writing "Beethoven's Fifth Sonnet".
Notes to Fifth symphony
ChatGPT and Bard know a sonnet has 14 lines, whereas Gemini has no idea of a Shakesperean sonnet's structure,
writing 16-lines & 20-lines "sonnets". Found no improvement in Gemini's composition over Bard or ChatGPT.
Here are my composition of "Beethoven's Fifth Sonnet" compared to AI generated by ChatGPT & Google Bard.
Reproduced 2 versions of Sonnet by Google Bard & Gemini & one version by ChatGPT in my Dec. 12-13 Haikus.