Category: AI

  • Sharing Mastodon Lists

    Sharing Mastodon Lists

    I am a BIG fan of the federated social media platform Mastodon, and this evening I used Claude.ai to generate code in an HTML file which allows me to quickly share my LISTS on Mastodon with others. Unlike Twitter, lists on Mastodon are PRIVATE and not directly sharable with others. I spent some time both…

  • NFC Sticker Automation

    NFC Sticker Automation

    Here’s a geeky tale for you. We have an old Bluetooth stereo in our car that does not support CarPlay, and it irritatingly connects automatically to my iPhone in the mornings before school when I start the vehicle to warm it up. This evening I successfully configured a NFC sticker (37 cents each in a…

  • Dynamic Audio Waveform Videos

    Dynamic Audio Waveform Videos

    Have you seen audio podcast “highlight videos” as reels on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, or other social media websites which include an audio waveform animation that is synchronized to the podcast? Today I explored a few tools, with help from ChatGPT recommendations, to create my own “dynamic audio waveform video.” Here is the 12 minute video…

  • NotebookLM Introduces Me

    NotebookLM Introduces Me

    Tonight’s Jason Neiffer #edtechSR inspired AI experiment: I asked Google’s NotebookLM AI model to take my bio, resume, vitae, portfolios, etc and create a “deep dive” podcast, sharing an audio introduction of me for a diverse audience. It’s 12.5 minutes long, and surprisingly insightful. I added it to my “About” page and posted it to…

  • Packet Defender 1.0

    Packet Defender 1.0

    Today was the first day of our spring semester, and I’m teaching middle school web design again. As part of our introductory class, we watched the video, “The Internet: IP Addresses & DNS” from Code.org and then played a Kahoot I made with AI about it, using the video transcript. As we learn to create…

  • AI Created Video Clips

    AI Created Video Clips

    One of the powerful ways artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can be used by media creators is to identify short clips in longer videos which are potentially engaging for audience members, and then facilitating the process of making those clips into shorter videos that can be shared on social media. In this post I’ll highlight how…

  • NotebookLM on Project 2025

    NotebookLM on Project 2025

    At the risk of ruining your Thanksgiving holiday and throwing us further into a “psychological funk” as we approach the political uncertainties of 2025, I’d like to share a brief (and successful) experiment I conducted yesterday using the full PDF of Project 2025 and the artificial intelligence (AI) model NotebookLM. As you may be aware,…

  • Remove Background in Adobe Express

    Remove Background in Adobe Express

    I LOVE creating and sharing InfoPics. My favorite iOS app for creating InfoPIcs has (for years now) been Adobe Express for iOS. The app has updated in many ways, but it still retains its core features and UI for quickly adding readable, contrasting text to an image. This morning as I created a “Bible Verse…

  • POWs and NotebookLM

    POWs and NotebookLM

    In December of 1991 as a senior at the US Air Force Academy, I wrote “American POWs in Southeast Asia and the Violation of a National Ethic” as my final research paper in my “History of Military Thought” class taught by visiting Colorado College professor, Dennis Showalter. That research was very challenging for me to…

  • Enchanted Christmas Chapel Memories

    Enchanted Christmas Chapel Memories

    I love listening to Christmas music year round. This is my favorite instrumental Christmas music playlist on Spotify: “Back in the day” this was a Pandora playlist called, “Peaceful Holidays.” Those were the years (starting in 2015) when I was the Director of Technology at Casady School in OKC. Lorin Swenson and I were still…