Results: Claude Code Wikifies Knowledge Stack (Part 2)

Welcome to Part Two of this blog series. Read Part One. Did We Make Progress? Did this process REALLY wikify my knowledge stack? Probably not in the traditional sense of what people mean when they refer to a "wiki." However, it did ORGANIZE…

Claude Code Setup on MX Linux: Wikifying My Gen AI Knowledge Stack After setting up an old laptop (Dell Alienware M15) with MX Linux, I decided to investigate the idea of setting up a knowledge wiki for Claude to access. I have to admit that working on MX Linux (KDE Plasma X11) the last two weeks since admitting defeat with ZorinLinux and PopOS! NVIDIA support has been a breeze. In fact, this was my first real venture with KDE Plasma, too.

Claude Code Setup on MX Linux: Wikifying My Gen AI Knowledge Stack

After setting up an old laptop (Dell Alienware M15) with MX Linux, I decided to investigate the idea of setting up a knowledge wiki for Claude to access. I have to admit that working on MX Linux (KDE Plasma X11) the last two weeks…

AI Adoption Stalls: Too Easy, Training Unnecessary Does this feel true to you? It does to me in nonprofit organizations I have listened to, a small handful. Here's an excerpt from Steve Yegge's comment that you will want to read in its entirety... @Steve_Yegge says: I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption.

AI Adoption Stalls: Too Easy, Training Unnecessary

Does this feel true to you? It does to me in nonprofit organizations I have listened to, a small handful. Here's an excerpt from Steve Yegge's comment that you will want to read in its entirety... @Steve_Yegge says: I was chatting with my buddy at…

Navigating Nonprofit Org Leadership Transitions: An Assessment Tool, Part 2 Welcome to Part Two of this short exploration of Empedocles' philosophy as applied to navigating nonprofit organizational leadership transitions. I thought it was really cool stuff, so I am sharing it. You can read part one (preceding blog entry) where I reflect briefly on my journey. But to be honest, this is what was really worth reading. This would be a cool tool to use for any Nonprofit Organization going through transition.

Navigating Nonprofit Org Leadership Transitions: An Assessment Tool, Part 2

Welcome to Part Two of this short exploration of Empedocles' philosophy as applied to navigating nonprofit organizational leadership transitions. I thought it was really cool stuff, so I am sharing it. You can read part…

Navigating Nonprofit Org Leadership Transitions: An Assessment Tool, Part 1 While cruising through my Flipboard readings, I stumbled across a fascinating article that connects a philosopher, Empedocles, to how to handle change. The article, Empedocles, philosopher: When everything falls apart, it's not always the end, sometimes it's rearrangement, by Gabriela Matamoros in AS USA publication caught my eye. Having gone through leadership transitions several times in my life, I tend to be skeptical that all will work out well.

Navigating Nonprofit Org Leadership Transitions: An Assessment Tool, Part 1

While cruising through my Flipboard readings, I stumbled across a fascinating article that connects a philosopher, Empedocles, to how to handle change. The article, Empedocles, philosopher: When everything falls apart,…

Roadmaps to AI Literacy Listening to the SmarterX podcast, I found myself reflecting on a meeting I attended last week on Gen AI. The meeting, not work related, was fascinating because it brought together a lot of different folks and perspectives. I relished the differences of opinion, the various modes of expression because, while I have been learning how to use Gen AI, explaining why AI in education remains a tough sell.

Roadmaps to AI Literacy

Listening to the SmarterX podcast, I found myself reflecting on a meeting I attended last week on Gen AI. The meeting, not work related, was fascinating because it brought together a lot of different folks and perspectives. I relished the differences of opinion, the various…

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 how much I spent on video/audio/text conversion. Even when I knew the free open source tool existed, I found it difficult to find the right combination of options to enter to get it do what I wanted.

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 how much I spent on video/audio/text conversion. Even when I knew the free open source tool existed, I found it…

KPI Dashboards Built with Gen AI – TCEA TechNotes Blog We have all been there. The board meeting is in three days. Someone just sent you a spreadsheet with device deployment numbers that don't match the ones Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, y...

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You can’t design learning. But, you can design conditions for learning.
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KPI Dashboards for school district technology...sorry, I didn't make that clear. As to your point, that's why it's so easy to vibe code an up to date dashboard at no/low expense

Tools You Make with Vibe Coding and #AI Wish you had a KPI dashboard? You can vibe code one easily. I did for a blog entry I wrote for TCEA (which you will have to read over there when it comes out) where you upload a dashboard via changes to a markdown text file or Google Sheet. Someone asked me recently, "What about creating tools for nonprofit organization members?" This wasn't related to my day job, of course, but it did raise the question in my mind.

Tools You Make with Vibe Coding and #AI

Wish you had a KPI dashboard? You can vibe code one easily. I did for a blog entry I wrote for TCEA (which you will have to read over there when it comes out) where you upload a dashboard via changes to a markdown text file or Google Sheet. Someone asked me…

Thinking About AI: A Hallway Conversation Here's a little story via Claude about AI in education. How much of it rings true for educators in Texas? None of the characters are real. A Conversation in the Hallway Three educators talk after a long day at an educators' meeting about Gen AI. Characters: Maya — middle school CS teacher, 12 years in the classroom Robert — assistant superintendent, mid-sized Texas district…

Thinking About AI: A Hallway Conversation

Here's a little story via Claude about AI in education. How much of it rings true for educators in Texas? None of the characters are real. A Conversation in the Hallway Three educators talk after a long day at an educators' meeting about Gen AI.…

Exploring AI Powered Newsletters At the upcoming TCEA Lunch and Learn, I'll be walking through creation of AI-powered newsletters. This is really a 30-minute webinar on creating newsletters from links you provide. You can use an existing set of custom instructions, then fine-tune them for a Google Gemini Gem, BoodleBox Unlimited Bot, ChatGPT Custom GPT, or Claude Project. In this way, you get consistent look-n-feel to your newsletters without all the hard work of coding in HTML or whatever.

Exploring AI Powered Newsletters

At the upcoming TCEA Lunch and Learn, I'll be walking through creation of AI-powered newsletters. This is really a 30-minute webinar on creating newsletters from links you provide. You can use an existing set of custom instructions, then fine-tune them for a Google…

BoodleBox Updates Models Want to use certain models safely? Look no further than BoodleBox, which as of today, now offers the following models. As you will see on review of the table, those "new models" include Claude 4.6 Sonnet and Claude 4.6 Opus, as well as Gemini 3.1 Pro, and ChatGPT 5.4. By the way, there are TWO infographics. One is generated by Google Gemini's Nano Banana 2 (Thinking) model (shown above).

BoodleBox Updates Models

Want to use certain models safely? Look no further than BoodleBox, which as of today, now offers the following models. As you will see on review of the table, those "new models" include Claude 4.6 Sonnet and Claude 4.6 Opus, as well as Gemini 3.1 Pro, and ChatGPT 5.4. By…

Knowledge Booster – Think with #Claude #AI

Artificial intelligence is no longer on the horizon. It is in the classroom, the lesson plan, and the professional practice of educators everywhere. This three-part Knowledge Booster series ($29) equips K–12 educators with practical, immediately…

Paris, Sept. 2023. #HumansOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze #Paris #EastCoastKin #Photography

New Hope, PA. August 2007. Blue antique auto for #BlueSkyMonday #ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #Photography #Car #Antique #CarShow

Sunflower for #MacroMonday #EastCoastKin #Photography #Macro Took pic in West Windsor NJ in August 2007.

Streamlining My GitHub Workflow: Consolidating Repositories Without Breaking Links As I build out more digital resources, my GitHub has gotten cluttered with "single-purpose" repositories. This is due to ignorance and a desire to align how GitHub works to websites of yesteryear. As a result, I created a lot of repositories I didn't need. This necessitated I recently consolidating several smaller projects into a single, organized repository using a subfolder structure (e.g., …

Streamlining My GitHub Workflow: Consolidating Repositories Without Breaking Links

As I build out more digital resources, my GitHub has gotten cluttered with "single-purpose" repositories. This is due to ignorance and a desire to align how GitHub works to websites of yesteryear. As a result, I…

Five Donkey Coloring Book pages Someone on Mastodon asked for donkey coloring pages featuring the donkeys from the image below: Coloring Book Pages Here you go ...

Five Donkey Coloring Book pages

Someone on Mastodon asked for donkey coloring pages featuring the donkeys from the image below: Coloring Book Pages Here you go ...

BoodleBox Changes Brewing Big things are brewing! I can't wait to see what's coming. What do you think the changes are? New models Smartphone app with voice chat Project type organization to chats What do you think?

BoodleBox Changes Brewing

Big things are brewing! I can't wait to see what's coming. What do you think the changes are? New models Smartphone app with voice chat Project type organization to chats What do you think?

Ten Years at the Job Wow, it's hard to believe that today, March 21, I have been on the job at a nonprofit education association for ten years. By week's end, I will have worked in nonprofit education longer than any other single school district job. What's really amazing is how much I have learned in the last ten years. In my post at the top of the ed tech mountain ( TechOps director), I thought I had learned so much  and was approaching the end of my career.

Ten Years at the Job

Wow, it's hard to believe that today, March 21, I have been on the job at a nonprofit education association for ten years. By week's end, I will have worked in nonprofit education longer than any other single school district job. What's really amazing is how much I have…

Trump’s Handpicked Arts Commission Approves Gold Coin With His Face on It

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Mapping Out Claude Courses Curious about Claude's offerings, I asked it to lay out the courses for me as an educator. Here's what it came up with. Wait, Before You Explore That Take a quick look at these curated lists of Gen AI learning opportunities, mostly free. Free Gen AI Training Opportunities: This is a collection of Gen AI self-paced, free (as far as I know) courses.

Mapping Out Claude Courses

Curious about Claude's offerings, I asked it to lay out the courses for me as an educator. Here's what it came up with. Wait, Before You Explore That Take a quick look at these curated lists of Gen AI learning opportunities, mostly free. Free Gen AI Training…

Creating Interactive Visuals I read an article about Claude's ability to create interactive visuals. The examples in the article didn't excite me so I thought I would ask Claude for some prompts. These prompts would result in interactive visuals. I decided to do this on my phone, not bothering to start up a laptop or desktop. So everything below was done via my phone.

Creating Interactive Visuals

I read an article about Claude's ability to create interactive visuals. The examples in the article didn't excite me so I thought I would ask Claude for some prompts. These prompts would result in interactive visuals. I decided to do this on my phone, not bothering to…

BoodleBox Maintenance: What You Need to Know Had AI rewrite this for fun...the original notice came via email. 😄 You've got lesson plans in BoodleBox, resources queued up, and maybe a class scheduled to access something this weekend. Then you see the maintenance notice. The timing never seems convenient, but here's what's happening and how to prepare. Maintenance Window BoodleBox will be temporarily unavailable for scheduled maintenance during two windows: Wednesday, March 18th at 9:00 PM Central (about two hours) and over the weekend of March 21st and 22nd, starting Saturday at 9:00 AM Central with intermittent outages throughout.

BoodleBox Maintenance: What You Need to Know

Had AI rewrite this for fun...the original notice came via email. 😄 You've got lesson plans in BoodleBox, resources queued up, and maybe a class scheduled to access something this weekend. Then you see the maintenance notice. The timing never seems…

AI Adoption Readiness Checklist for Nonprofit Organizations Thought this might be fun to cook up given interest in Ai from nonprofit organizations. I love how it's not about the tech or the innovation, but the change management process. If you are an organization that hasn't managed change successfully before, AI implementation will find a hard road ahead to success. Based on research by Dr. Priyanka Dave — adapted for nonprofit organizations…

AI Adoption Readiness Checklist for Nonprofit Organizations

Thought this might be fun to cook up given interest in Ai from nonprofit organizations. I love how it's not about the tech or the innovation, but the change management process. If you are an organization that hasn't managed change…

Migrating Claude Projects from One Account to Another Ugh, what a pain. Why doesn't Claude have an account migration tool? I ended up having to migrate projects, including custom instructions and support files, from one account (based on email login) to a new one (based on SSO with Google). The reason for the move? Nothing special, only that I got tired of trying to login securely to Claude via an email link.

Migrating Claude Projects from One Account to Another

Ugh, what a pain. Why doesn't Claude have an account migration tool? I ended up having to migrate projects, including custom instructions and support files, from one account (based on email login) to a new one (based on SSO with Google). The…

Profit Over People It is a recurring theme, isn't it? Many in business choose profit over people. I was once under the illusion that it was the other way around but time teaches a different lesson: Most commercial Organisations, when faced with the ability to strip out core cost – operating costs – not the kinds of cool and exciting costs of innovation and creativity, but the kind of cost that cleans the floors or administers HR process, will jump at the chance.

Profit Over People

It is a recurring theme, isn't it? Many in business choose profit over people. I was once under the illusion that it was the other way around but time teaches a different lesson: Most commercial Organisations, when faced with the ability to strip out core cost – operating costs…

Thanks, Doug! I hope you don't mind, I included it in the blog post as well. 😀