Anastasia Salter

@anasalter.bsky.social

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Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/

A 12-week course schedule laid out as a colorful grid, alternating between in-person "Workshop" weeks (with dates) and "Async" weeks. W1 Workshop, Wed May 13: ELIZA, LLMs, the ChatGPT moment, the agentic horizon. W2 Async: Claude interface, Projects, model selection. W3 Workshop, Wed May 27: Distant reading and corpus work with Claude Projects. W4 Async: Claude Projects + Skills for text work. W5 Workshop, Wed Jun 10: Visual analysis with Claude Projects, Artifacts, and Cowork. W6 Async: Scheduled Cowork tasks, local models via Hugging Face, caption correction, and the image-to-image loop. W7 Workshop, Wed Jun 24: Agentic AI, GitHub Pages, and Claude Code Web. W8 Async: Confidence-building across Claude Code Web and Claude Code Desktop (with Hugging Face plugins). W9 Workshop, Wed Jul 8: Course games, planning mode, and AI policy. W10 Async: Discipline-specific accessibility, UDL, and AI policy. W11 Workshop, Wed Jul 22: Local agentic powertools (demos you can follow along with) and disciplinary consequences. W12 Async: Planning fall, with AI assistance that doesn't replace your labor.
Figment in her purple harness with a very large floral bow
Figment, a Chihuahua of sorts found roaming in the street, in her rainbow harness with a tiny green bow on her forehead
An appearance by my Chihuahua, Figment, on a page of my website in the style of old school Sierra.
ELO 26 (un)supervised: July 15-18, 2026 / Fully Online / Hosted by UCF / 12 days until the conference goes live
Dan Cox, Zach Whalen, and Elika Ortega in front of a "ELC5 in the Age of AI" slide
ELO 26 (un)supervised - logo by PD Edgar
A retro pixel-art trading card styled in cream and yellow text on a dark navy background, titled 'Anastasia Salter — Digital Media Scholar UCF,' with a score of '632 Strength · Top 6%.' Below, a section labeled 'GPT-5.5 Says' describes her as an American academic and author known for work on digital media, games, interactive narrative, and fan studies. A bar chart ranks how strongly various AI models recognize her, each with a colored horizontal bar indicating relative strength: GPT-5.5 (full white bar, highest), GPT-5.4 Mini (yellow), Claude Opus 4.8 (coral, partial), Claude Haiku 4.5 (yellow), Grok 4.20 (gray, partial), Gemini 3.1 Lite (blue), Kimi K2 0905 (teal), DeepSeek V4 (blue), Llama 3.3 70B (empty), Llama 3.2 1B (empty), GLM 4.7 Flash (empty), Mistral 3.2 24B (orange, partial), and Qwen3 8B (empty, lowest). A footer reads 'In The Weights .com.'
B is for Buy n Large, your corporate propaganda edtech provider.
Two barred owls perched side by side on a tree branch, very interested in my tiny dog.
"The first episode of South Park is now closer to the Moon landing than to today."
The Author Function title slide set up for presenting at the Linda Hall Library
Cardinal staring directly at you.
From Perplexity.AI Comet as of 2/23/26 - A new browser by Perplexity The AI browser built for Students | Comet is an AI-powered browser that acts as a 24/7 sidekick, study buddy, and tutor.
From companion.ai/einstein as of 2/23/26: How it works Einstein has a full virtual computer with a browser — anything you can do, he can do. Has his own computer Einstein isn't a chatbot. He has a full virtual computer — he can browse the web, watch videos, read PDFs, and interact with any site just like you would. Logs into Canvas for you Einstein connects to your Canvas account, sees your assignments, and submits completed work — automatically. Watches lectures & videos Einstein can watch recorded lectures, pull out key concepts, and use them to answer assignments accurately. Reads & writes essays Give him a reading assignment and he reads the full text, understands it, and writes original essays with proper citations. Participates in discussions Discussion board posts, peer replies, forum responses — Einstein reads the thread and contributes thoughtful responses. No more copy-pasting Forget switching between ChatGPT and your LMS. Einstein reads the assignment, solves it, and submits it directly. Every subject covered Math, physics, CS, history, literature, econ — if it's on Canvas, Einstein can handle it. Works while you sleep Set him up and forget about it. Einstein checks for new assignments and knocks them out before the deadline. Telegram & Discord too Optionally connect Telegram or Discord to message Einstein on the go — check deadlines, ask questions, or tell him to skip one.
An injured barred owl fluffed up and sitting on a sidewalk
My spring semester: Critical Making, Candidacy Exams, and Dissertations
The first two books in the Replay series on display at MLA 2026 in Toronto
A Dragonalnce-themed midi soundscape site, built with Claude Code Web and Opus 4.5
ELO 26: (un)supervised - graphic by PD Edgar
ELO (un)supervised logo designed by PD Edgar
Morning view of palms and sand in Hollywood Beach
Two robots repairing a space ship would like us to know that there will be no grading today, as "Canvas is experiencing issues due to an ongoing AWS incident."
Replay book: Undertale - Can a Game Give Hope? with some absolutely fantastic University of Chicago Press wrapping paper.
First books upcoming in University of Chicago Press's Replay series: Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? and Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Can a Game Take Care of Us?
In Kuali: Propose Changes - Create a New Version (Please select this option.) Create a New Revision (Do NOT use this option.)
A fluffy ragdoll cat sprawled on his back, feet askew, done.
Jurassic Park float, with mist and dino.
Queen butterfly chilling on the rosinweed
First exercise is a Buzzfeed quiz style book recommendation system, this version uses far too many star emojis for ratings and a very neon header
A ragdoll cat embroidery, except it isn't, because it is AI and there is no hoop, no table, no cloth, and no human labor. Notice the lack of any relationship between the content and actual thread or stitching.
A spaceship lands in the middle of UCF's memory mall. The landing gear appears out of nowhere, and the students seem unimpressed. Generated July 2025 with Veo 3.
Generating absolutely terrible William Blake rip-offs with Claude Sonnet 4 as an entry point into thinking about histories of text generation
My #elo25 badge now has a shiny president ribbon, courtesy of our fantastic outgoing president Caitlin Fisher!
This giant lecture theater is fine.
PD Edgar sharing several experimental and playful literary journals that inspired his approach
Dan Cox sharing awareness of the passing of time: Bitsy game making tool turns 10 in 2026.
It's an Oreo muffin. Not a cupcake. That wouldn't be breakfast.
Caitlin Fisher and Lai-Tze Fan, our conference co-chairs
My favorite part of the website update is this minimalist bookshelf with short versions of all my titles, brought to you by Claude Sonnet 4.
Mourning doves taking over the feeder
An entirely generated, hype-filled, mini-bot riffing on Eliza's conversation structure built in three prompts with Claude Sonnet 4.
"Humanities in the Age of AI" course header, generated code with Claude Sonnet 4
WorkAdventure at ACH2025: avatar chat gatherings, and playable games alongside for all your DH adventuring needs!
Critical Making in the Age of AI from Amherst College Press in paperback on one of my quilts
Three varieties of tomatoes, freshly picked
Dogma 25th anniversary screening, as seen from far away because we are in the nosebleeds.
A green bag with slightly shiny cream straps. This might have been a poor choice but that webbing was on sale. Also, a functional double zipper.
Our local barred owl perched over the driveway after a failed attempt to catch one of the well-fed squirrels living off our vegetable garden.
A barred owl is making sure I don't disturb its meal. This section of yard was grass, but is slowly being converted to frog fruit to support native butterflies.
Email: This is to inform you that NEH Grant Application HT-308037 for project "Open-Source Generative AI for Digital Humanities" has been withdrawn by the NEH. Thank you so much for applying to the NEH's Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. Unfortunately, all the programs under the Office of Digital Humanities have been cancelled. So we are unable to review your proposal and have marked it as Withdrawn by Agency in our system. I realize that writing a proposal takes a long time and I'm so sorry we can't fund your excellent work anymore. thanks, Brett Bobley Director, Office of Digital Humanities
Three monarch caterpillars, not enough milkweed.
A single strawberry escaped the squirrels.
A floofy kitty with his emotional support catnip banana
The baby owl still doesn't want to leave the tree, but then again, who does?
A baby owl that doesn't want to leave the tree, and who can blame them?
Lake Michigan "beach" on a windy, troubled day
A mostly melted river in the Carleton arboretum. Doesn't exactly look like spring, but winter term is ending.
Looks like ten inches of snow covering everything except the sections of sidewalk someone has thankfully plowed. Many sections are much more exciting. Snow on trees is pretty gorgeous though.