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Digital Ministry News Recap
November 5, 2023
TL;DR: Digital Ministry News Recap
This edition of the Digital Ministry Journal recaps news of interest to the digital ministry community. The Rundown AI shares an update on an AI teaching assistant from Microsoft Research that improves lesson planning productivity. Church Production magazine shares a post on vision-driven tech budgeting. Church Production magazine also shares inspiring posts from 10 “behind-the-scenes” Church Instagram accounts. Finally, The Prompt Warrior shares experience and lessons learned from the “NASA Megaprompt” that we can apply in our ChatGPT prompt engineering efforts.
AI Lesson Planning Assistant
The Rundown AI shares “Microsoft's AI teaching sidekick” (10-minute read) describing an AI teaching assistant created by Microsoft Research that helps Indian teachers reduce the time required to generate personalized lesson plans from 60 - 90 minutes to 60 - 90 seconds. While this product may not be immediately available, it has implications for AI enhancing Christian education.
Vision-Driven Tech Budgeting
Church Production Magazine shares “Smart Investments for Church Tech: Creating a Vision-Driven Budget for 2024” (5-minute read) capturing budgeting wisdom from several Church tech leaders ranging from differentiating “vision maintainers” from “vision accelerators” to remembering to budget for volunteer appreciation.
Behind-The-Scenes Church Instagram Accounts
Church Production Magazine shares “10 Church Instagram Accounts Focusing On the Experience” (10-minute read/10-minute watch) highlighting behind-the-scenes production work and the people that make it happen.
Lessons From The NASA Megaprompt
The Prompt Warrior shares “Dissecting the NASA megaprompt” (20-minute read) extracting lessons that we can apply to optimize our ChatGPT prompt engineering efforts, including prompt structure, maximizing user feedback and use of constraints.
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