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Adventures in AI (Part 4)

Well, the OAME AI service has been out for a day for testing. And it glitched about two hours in 😲 It was a temporary glitch and they’re bound to happen, especially when there’s currently an intermediary service between us…

Adventures in AI (Part 3)

So as described in the last post, using Microsoft’s Azure to produce a knowledgeable and responsive chat service was great, except for the cost. Meanwhile, OpenAI (the producer of ChatGPT) opened up their system with two new options: Custom ChatGPTs…

Adventures in AI (Part 2)

I really enjoyed playing with MyAskAI as our first attempt at providing an Ontario/OAME lens to Artificial Intelligence– it’s a really practical and easy approach to making a knowledgeable chatbot and our OAME-proprietary content was safe from OpenAI’s data capture.…

Adventures in AI (Part 1 of n)

So I started working in AI and chatbots about 7 years ago and had a fair bit of success in building a service that provided answers to school-based questions (“When and where is the School Play being performed?“, “What is…

Desmos2OneNote (Version 4)

Okay, remember a few days ago when I said that Microsoft does continual improvement? I guess, kinda, so do I. You can download the file here: (and I updated it on the earlier post, too). So I had a few…

Desmos2OneNote (Version 2)

So the great thing about modern programming is that Microsoft products are under continual improvement — in the “olden days” you would have to wait years between upgrades. Today, every week sees new additions or improvements in the systems. So,…

How many Spider-folk?

I thoroughly enjoyed the recent Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse movie. If you haven’t seen it, be sure to watch the first movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse and then see this one — I’m not a comic book geek at all,…

The Death of DeltaMath

Yes, an overly dramatic headline. If you haven’t already tried DeltaMath (www.deltamath.com) it’s a web-based math question site that generates a huge variety of questions based on a template. So, say you want students to practice finding the vertex of…

Desmos2OneNote

The Lede: This is an app that will screenshot all pages of a student’s Desmos Activities into a OneNote Page. Desmos Activities have been a great way to have students work, both individually and collaboratively, on mathematical ideas. It was…