Read A Book: Peggy Reimers
As you may know, TCEA's Librarian Conference is taking place this week, so I thought it would be fun to post a "Read a Book" po
Writing and Reading
Reflections: A Yearlong Gen AI Webinar Series Ends
Today, it was my last pre
Kitchen Table Stoic: Chapter One
Preface Re reading Epictetus' Enchiridion , and I thought, "Wow, this is a little hard to work through." The lessons are
Analog, Not Digital
Is your business analog, not digital? Or put another way, anti GenAI rather than leveraging Gen AI to improve your work processes and workflows? If so, you may not deserve the role
Video, Image, and Text Conversions
What if you could save $30 for video conversion or video to audio conversion? That's how much one tool, HowToConvert, is charging. I can't tell you
ChatGPT Foundations for Teachers
Thanks to this referral from Stephen Downes, I learned of OpenAI's New AI Foundations Course
Session 5 with ChatGPT 5.2
Reading Bernie Goldbach's blog entry, Using Copilot on My Mobile Phone, I thought I'd give his three
Three Ways to Organize Gen AI GPTs and Projects
Since I spend so much tim
NSPA: Creating and Revising Scholarship Applications with AI (Beginner Focus)
Learn how to draft, revise, and refine scholarship applications with AI, including prompts, eligibility criteria, FAQs, and scoring rubrics.
Free GenAI Offers for Students Comet Perplexity Cursor Gemini
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Essential Reading Response ai
Someone on Facebook
Texas Library Book Laws
If you're a Texas educato
Guest Blog: BoodleBox in the Classroom: A High School Teacher's AI Grading Success Story
Note: This is a guest blog from my friend and colleague, Judy A., sharing about her experience with BoodleBox AI. Judy is a high school writing teacher at a local school. It has
The Memory Garden
I saw this post on Facebook, which [discussed this NPR a
GenAI In the Fullness of Time
"For the vision of AI in the halls of learning shall come in the fullness of time appointed. Though the rulers of thy schools do tarry in their embrace thereof, cease not thy pre
Exploring OpenThinker:7b ollama GenAI AI
While much of my experiments on the desktop with GenAI have been disappointing (Gemma3:latest is one model that works well after a pause), I have found that models like tinyllama,
Updating My List of Bots and Custom GPTs AI ChatGPT BoodleBox
As I look forward to several AI presentations in the next few months, I'm making a shift in my "custom GPTs" or "Bots" that I'm sharing with others.
Webinar: NSPA AI Fast Track (Updated 4/16/25)
NSPA Virtual AI Series Home Welcome to my resources for my NSPA AI Fast Track
Quote and a Book to Read
First, the quote: “belief is the wound that knowledge heals. Second, the book is Ursula Le Guin’s The Telling
A Visit to the Bookstore
I'm back from a morning jaunt over to Half Price Books in San Antonio, Texas. My wife found a gift card from a colleague and friend (DB) in the kitchen maildrop, so I found mys
Print Book Perspectives
Doug Johnson bemoans print books and I had to laugh: S
AI: A Tool for Destroying Education
I am sensing a definite backlash against AI. There are moments in my use of AI that I realize that I've eliminated AI components from the digital tools I use. Consider the followin
Comparing AI Models and a 3-2-1 on AI Writing EduSky
Later this month (or maybe in a month or two, I forget), I need to do an AI Smackdown. Of course, what an AI Smackdown means for me is different than what it means for someone else
Writing Refines Thinking TCEA EduSky
I stumbled on this quote below by Paul Graham over at Henrik Karlsson's blog , and it immediately resonated. I don't include the full quote but it is…
AI Detection and Writing
As an educator with friends in K 12 education, responsible for teaching writing, much as I did when I worked in a classroom, I am sympathetic about the turmoil that AI causes. For