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Creating YouTube Shorts with Descript.com
I recently created and published a series of shorts for YouTube (videos less than 60 seconds long, all formatted with a portrait (9 x 16) rather than landscape aspect ratio from the 8 minute video of my speech at the No Kings rally, in Charlotte, North Carolina, on June 14, 2025. In this post, I…
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Vibe Coding with AI
Today I facilitated the webinar “Vibe Coding with AI” for the MediaEd Club of the Media Education Lab. I mainly shared stories of two of my recent vibe coding projects, “Packet Defender 2.0” and my “DIY Federated Reader.” Both of those projects are shared on my GitHub. Check out the recorded session video and session…
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Packet Defender 2.0
Back in January of 2025 I used ChatGPT to “vibe code” a project I named “Packet Defender.” This project was and is my attempt to use HTML and JavaScript to create a simple, text-based and web-based game to help my middle school web design students learn some of the basic terms and concepts about how…
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Kahoot Quiz from YouTube Video via OpenMCQ
For the past couple years as a middle school STEM and media literacy teacher, I’ve LOVED using AI / artificial intelligence tools to create instructional materials for my students and streamline my workflows as an instructional creator. Yesterday I created a 9 minute tutorial video demonstrating how I use a YouTube video with good instructional…
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AI Bots and AI Personas
We have not only entered “The Age of AI,” we have entered the Age of “AI Bots” and “AI Personas.” There is not (yet) an English WikiPedia article for “AI persona,” but this is the definition Gemini AI provided to me this evening: An AI persona is a carefully crafted digital profile with a specific…
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DIY Federated Reader
We live in a fractured and polluted information environment. The sheer volume of content, combined with algorithms designed for engagement over enlightenment, can be overwhelming. Yet, within this chaos, there are countless people and organizations sharing fantastic, potentially transformative ideas. The challenge is finding them. This is where we can step in for each other,…
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AI Bubble Bust
This is a very damning (and long) article about the MISSING potential profitability of AI startups that are trying to build products on top of generative AI platforms. A bit of course language, but very insightful analysis. A quotation: …fundamentally, generative AI does not let companies build something new. Anyone that builds a generative AI…
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Is Any AI Use Ethical?
The past two days I had the opportunity to attend multiple sessions at the summer 2025 conference for “Civics of Technology.” It’s a grassroots organization which: …aims to empower students and educators to critically inquire into the effects of technologies on their individual and collective lives. We conduct research, develop curriculum, and offer professional development.…
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Civics Of Tech 2025 Conference
Today I attended and participated in 3 virtual Zoom sessions in the Civics of Technology 2025 online conference, a free gathering of educators, researchers, and technologists working at the intersection of civic engagement, media literacy and digital life. As a media literacy and STEM teacher, I love grassroots learning experiences like this conference. Conference materials…
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Zoom AI Meeting Summary
Today I facilitated another monthly Zoom webinar for the MediaEd Club of the Media Education Lab, and I was both pleased and amazed to receive an AI-powered “Meeting Summary” (directly from Zoom) following the recorded videoconference. I’m including an edited version of it below, and adding hyperlinks to referenced resources. Here’s the archived recording (47…
