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AI Special Topic Workshops

One-hour, presenter-ready sessions in browser slide decks.

1-hour workshop · Browser slides

Which AI Is Best? Reading the Scoreboard Like a Pro

Why "which AI is best?" has no fixed answer: the Turing test's quiet ending, how benchmarks work and die, whose scores to trust, and how to spot an app faking it. Ends with a cracking investigative video.

1-hour workshop · Browser slides

Growing Up Digital: An AI World Tour

How AI is growing up differently around the world: UNESCO readiness check-ups for six of the Territory's homeland countries, the global trust story, and a surprising data portrait of how Australians really use AI.

1-hour workshop · Browser slides

Bubble Trouble: Making Sense of the AI Economy

Is AI a bubble? Why the question has no tidy answer: circular financing, the US-China chip contest, information warfare and a military arms race; and what it all means for NT organisations.

1-hour workshop · Browser slides

The Price of Thinking: AI Subscriptions and the New Digital Divide

The third digital divide: who gets premium AI plus instruction, who gets left out, what enterprise AI really costs, and the WhatsApp school that reached students the platforms couldn't.

1-hour workshop · Browser slides

Your Brain on Autocomplete: Why Writing Still Matters

What happens to thinking when AI does the writing? New brain research on "cognitive debt", plus five thousand years of writing history; clay tablets, scribes and one very sassy Mesopotamian.

1-hour workshop · Browser slides

Where Does Your Chat Go? Taking Care of Your Data in AI Tools

From surveillance capitalism and Cambridge Analytica to today's AI privacy settings: what "train our models" really means, the platform-by-platform guide, and what never to type at all.

1-hour workshop · Browser slides

Beyond the Buzzword: What Does AI-Literate Actually Mean?

AI literacy taken apart: how it differs from digital literacy, what the research scales really measure, a letter from an imagined 2026 graduate, and Australia's new guide to declaring your AI use.

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NT World Ink holds the course materials, workshop decks and simulation tools used in cybersecurity, AI literacy, Microsoft Office and workplace digital skills training. Most courses come with Word handouts and practice files, so they can be run offline and away from this site.

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Course library

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01 Microsoft Excel Fundamentals for Employment

A foundation-level, hands-on introduction to Microsoft Excel for the workplace. Four sessions take you from finding your way around the Excel window to entering data, writing simple formulas, formatting clearly, building charts, and managing your files. Every example is everyday and work-ready: budgets, stock lists, rosters, contact lists. Each session comes with a full take-home Word handout and starter and solution practice workbooks, so the whole course works offline, independent of this website.

DURATION · 4 × 3-hour sessions LEVEL · Foundation, no experience needed FORMAT · 4 sessions + Word handouts + practice workbooks
Open course
02 Microsoft Word: Documents That Get Read

Word as a document engineering tool, not a typewriter. A scenario-based group activity where you take Janelle's chaotic draft and turn it into Australia's formal bid to host the 2034 Olympics in Darwin. Practise the styles pane, multilevel numbered lists, the Table of Contents tool, tracked changes, Compare Documents, and Copilot Chat for drafting and fact-checking.

DURATION · 4 hrs LEVEL · Beginner to intermediate FORMAT · Group activity + 5 resources
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03 Microsoft PowerPoint: Effective Visual Communication

PowerPoint as a design discipline, not a slideware free-for-all. A scenario-based group activity where you take Janelle's chaotic Sunday draft and rebuild it into an IOC-grade Inspection Delegation pitch deck for the Darwin 2034 Winter Olympics. Practise slide masters, layouts, theme colours, alignment, tasteful animations and transitions, the Accessibility Checker, and Copilot Chat for drafting and rebuilding.

DURATION · 2 hrs LEVEL · Beginner to intermediate FORMAT · Group activity + 5 resources
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04 Digital Literacy: Workplace Skills

A modular digital literacy course for regional and remote Australian workplaces, first written for delivery in Tennant Creek. Two strands: a Digital Foundations core covering the Microsoft 365 tools most workplaces already pay for — files and sharing, email and Teams, Word, Excel — and a Working with AI strand covering prompting, Copilot, practical AI workflows, and responsible use. Sessions are deliberately unnumbered: run the lot, or just the ones your group needs.

FORMAT · 11 hands-on sessions · modular LEVEL · Beginner to intermediate BUILT FOR · Regional & remote delivery
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05 Cyber Security Awareness

A four-session series that helps every staff member become a harder target and a faster reporter. Plain language, real Australian examples, and habits you can use the same afternoon. Built for Northern Territory workplaces and communities; no tech background needed.

FORMAT · 4 × 2-hour sessions LEVEL · Beginner STATUS · All 4 sessions live
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06 AI Literacy for the Workplace

A one-day, beginner-friendly introduction to AI tools, safe online use, data privacy, and how to spot digital risks. Six hands-on sessions plus three take-home resource pages. Designed for workforce entrants and the wider community; no prior tech experience required.

DURATION · 1 day LEVEL · Beginner FORMAT · 10 HTML pages
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07 Power Query: Surveillance Data Analysis

Learn Microsoft Excel's Power Query through six exercises set inside a fictional dystopian Australian outback town. You'll combine messy CSV files, merge relational tables, write custom M-language functions, and reshape data for executive briefings. The dataset doubles as a discussion prompt about algorithmic bias and surveillance ethics.

DURATION · 3 hrs LEVEL · Beginner to intermediate FORMAT · HTML dossier + 13 CSVs
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08 Power BI for Cyber Security: Build Your First SIEM Dashboard

Learn Power BI properly, with cyber security as the running example rather than sales figures. Load two synthetic security datasets, build a star schema, write your first DAX measures, and assemble an interactive SIEM-style dashboard with a host heatmap and KPI card row. The capstone is a threat hunt: a simulated intruder is hiding in 4,000 Windows security events, and you find them with the dashboard you built.

DURATION · 1 day, or 2 half-days LEVEL · Beginner to intermediate FORMAT · Single-page course + 2 Excel datasets
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09 Visio in Four Hours: Networks, Flows and Site Plans

Four hours of Visio built around the diagrams people actually have to produce, rather than a tour of the ribbon. You draw a network from scratch and pick up the labelling conventions that separate a diagram that reads from one that does not; see how a flowchart can be generated from a table and redraw itself when the table changes; sketch a site map and a wireframe for a small website; and finish by writing the same diagrams as text in Mermaid, which needs no licence at all. A companion quick-reference crammer holds the shortcuts and menu paths, so the four hours stay on drawing.

DURATION · 4 hours, one sitting LEVEL · Beginner to intermediate FORMAT · Single-page course, nothing to download
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10 AI for Research: Using AI Well in Research and Community Work

Plain-language AI literacy for people working in research, health and community organisations. Two short courses sit side by side: everyday skills, covering what AI is, scams and deepfakes, and staying safe online; and research practice, covering prompting, literature and evidence work, hallucinations and verification, handling data responsibly, and using AI on remote connections. A full page on Indigenous Data Sovereignty, ICIP and research ethics runs through the research strand, backed by an annotated resource library of the frameworks written by and with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Every page stands alone, so you can read in any order, and most come with a one-page Word cheat sheet to print and keep.

DURATION · Self-paced, or two half-day workshops LEVEL · Foundation, no experience needed FORMAT · 13 reference pages + Word cheat sheets + resource library
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