APPENDICES
Tools, setup, and the working vocabulary for this course.
Setting Up Your AI Toolkit
Free accounts for ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini, the web + mobile apps, a prompt-library notes doc, and an optional private local model — no admin rights or paid plan required
The cheapest path that works: create free-tier accounts for the three major assistants, set up a notes doc for your prompt library, learn which lab needs which tool, and — optionally — run a private local model with Ollama or LM Studio for the Week-11 privacy lab.
The AI Tool Directory
A categorized reference — general assistants, image, video, audio & voice, music, document, meeting, translation, research, and coding tools
What each category of AI tool is best at, the leading options as of mid-2026, and where free tiers end and paid plans begin — the reference behind choosing the right tool in Weeks 5, 9, and 10.
Responsible and Ethical AI Use
What may never be pasted into public AI, PII/HIPAA/FERPA, copyright, consent and disclosure, and how to cite AI
The rules a professional lives by: the data you must never share with a public model, the laws that govern confidential information, how to handle voice and likeness with consent, how to disclose and cite AI, and the line you may not cross — the human owns every verdict.
Glossary
The working vocabulary of an AI-powered professional
Token, context window, parameter, LLM, training, fine-tuning, inference, prompt, RAG, agent, hallucination, multimodal, open-weight, quantization, frontier and local models, and the rest of the terms you will actually use.