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AI Use Case: Onboarding Made Easy
Jumping off from The Rundown : The Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ChatGPT Projects to build a private, shareable workspace with uploaded SOPs, custom instructions, and project-specific memory for onboarding new hires smoothly. Step-by-step: Open ChatGPT , enable the sidebar, select "Projects," then "New project," and name it (e.g., "Onboarding") Upload your SOP files to the Project, balancing context carefully to avoid overloading the AI's memory Share

Kevin D
6 days ago2 min read


ChatGPT Races to Catch Gemini in the Ed-Market
ChatGPT is certainly the brand-name of AI but Google's education-focused approach has long-made it my go-to recommendation for educators in the classroom. On Wednesday, OpenAI made a new announcement aimed at closing that gap: A secure ChatGPT workspace that supports teachers in their everyday work so they can focus on what matters most—plus admin controls for school and district leaders. Free for verified U.S. K–12 educators through June 2027. Is this one more way to keep th

Kevin D
Nov 252 min read


AI Use Case: Competition Researcher
Brandon Schneider from School Marketing Insider (a must read for anyone involved in school marketing) offers a jumping off prompt for competitive research: "I'm analyzing competitor messaging for [your school type]. Please review these websites: [list 3-5 URLs] For each school, identify: 1. Their main value proposition 2. The 3-5 key programs they emphasize 3. The emotional tone of their messaging 4. Any unique positioning Then summarize: What patterns exist? What gaps

Kevin D
Nov 181 min read


Book Bites: Word on Fire's Evangelization & Culture "artificial intelligence"
A review of the magazine issue from the Bishop Barron-led Word on Fire Institute. A beautifully-produced magazine that serves as just the...

Kevin D
Nov 73 min read


AI Use Case: AI as Test Marketing
Drawing on an idea from Teaching with AI : "AI can analyze the reviews, judgments, or social media posts of groups large and small"(location 1091). Often times, those of us marketing or promoting schools, struggle to articulate a compelling message. AI can be a great support here - serving as a test marketing system. Made with Sora. First, compile some basic demographic data - ages of parents and target groups, socio-economic status, background, location, et al. - these can b

Kevin D
Nov 41 min read


Book Review: Teaching with AI - A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning
This week's review is on Teaching with AI - A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by Jos é Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson. A book which states its aim clearly - focusing on the how, not necessarily the why or why not of using AI in teaching. Bowen and Watson present a brief overview on what AI is, before proceeding to Teaching (which includes a discussion of cheating, policies, and quality) and Learning (feedback, assessments, writing). The first section is l

Kevin D
Oct 245 min read


Stanford/Google Delivers AI Use
Although it pains me to recognize any good coming from Stanford (or Google for that matter), this is good and something I called for...

Kevin D
Oct 141 min read


Meta Reminds Everyone TINFL
Meta continues to work hard to be the worst social media and AI company : Meta announced on Wednesday that data collected from user...

Kevin D
Oct 101 min read


Google Delivers On Its Promise
From Google : A few months ago, we expanded Gemini in Classroom to help educators use AI for their common teaching tasks. Today, we’re...

Kevin D
Oct 72 min read


AI Browsers and the End of Online Busywork
From Google : we’ll be introducing agentic capabilities to Gemini in Chrome. These will let Gemini in Chrome handle those tedious tasks...

Kevin D
Sep 232 min read


AI Use Case: Gemini aims for educators
Following up on my July 1 first post: " Gemini Summer? " and from July 18 " Gemini's Assent and A Modest Proposal , " we continue to see...

Kevin D
Sep 162 min read


AI Use Case: PLCs Adding AI
Harvard Business Review published a guide to using AI in team meetings: " 3 Ways AI Can Improve Team Meetings ." Elisa Farri and Gabriele...

Kevin D
Sep 93 min read


ChatGPT Gives you Branches...
Courtesy of the Neuron : behold, the ability t o branch a new chat in ChatGPT! So like, why would you want to do this? As Micah, the...

Kevin D
Sep 51 min read


AI Use Case: Team Marketing and Voice
This idea comes out of a presentation from Brendan Schneider's AI Marketing Summit and a session from Joshua Clark . One of the problems...

Kevin D
Aug 263 min read


AI Use Case: Genie3 and the Power of Imagination
More amazing than the world of image and video creation (and the explosion of deepfakes , historical tik toks and more) is the world of...

Kevin D
Aug 122 min read


Invasion of the Main Model Tutors
Like many fields, Artificial Intelligence is marked by companies aggressively copycatting each other. For market monopolization, each...

Kevin D
Aug 82 min read


AI Use Case: Using Projects
Having entered into its third year as a commercial product, large language models like ChatGPT, et al., are having to innovate to be a...

Kevin D
Aug 44 min read


AI Use Case: Making Marketing with YouTube Easier
YouTube is the #2 website in the world and a key source of marketing. I've used it to livestream events to reach family members and...

Kevin D
Jul 291 min read


Gemini's Assent and A Modest Proposal
Matt Miller highlights three key issues from Gemini's Google Classroom rollout in his July 9 newsletter : ...you might notice something...

Kevin D
Jul 182 min read


AI Ideas: AI Agents in Instructional Design
One of the most helpful guides on AI agents is Dr. Phillipa Hardman's " Make Instructional Design Fun Again with AI Agents " published in...

Kevin D
Jul 152 min read
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