This is both a reflection on governance, a tutorial, and some limited reflection on how job insecurity shapes behavior. ESRI has said they’re going to shut off Classic Story Maps for some time. DLINQ ended up becoming more involved in managing our ESRI stuff due to reductions in staffing in the Geography department and changes […]
Category: Examples
Google SSO protection for a directory
We had a textbook that had been created with Quarto1. The instructor wanted to put it online but restrict access to Middlebury people through SSO. The one option I got centrally (paste the individual files into a Google Site) was not optimal. While our Middlebury accounts are limited in Google, I thought I had enough […]
LaTeX and real(ish)-time collaboration in WordPress
Here’s a plugin that seems to allow for pretty decent, fairly synchronous LaTeX editing in WordPress. It’s been polished up by Claude Code. That’s why you get a readme.1 While I’m not going to share it more widely at Middlebury2, it does point at some interesting general capabilities that I might use for something else. […]
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Maidu Translation Site Progression
I’m working with an anthropology professor to put some Maidu stories online. You can see a functional version of it here. The basic idea is to show the original text on the left and pair it with the English translation. From there, we’re trying to figure out the other things that the site should do. […]
Student Portfolios in WordPress: Déjà Vu Remix
I’m looking at creating k12 teaching portfolios aligned to Vermont’s teaching standards. On the plus side, I made a similar portfolio when I did my ITMA program at Virginia Tech.1 As someone who hired a lot of teachers in VA once upon a time I’ve also looked at hundreds of teacher portfolios. And, finally, over […]
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The evolution of George Washington the bodybuilder
When I was teaching 6th grade history back in the very early 2000s1 I made this image to make some connection between George Washington’s strength and some SOL fact. It was silly. It’s just a thing to help it stick in their minds, make a boring fact visual, and maybe make a kid laugh.2 At […]
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ESRI Scraping
ESRI is sunsetting the Classic StoryMaps. Apparently that was announced in 2019 so they’ve been pretty generous. They provided a link to the content that is going to be retired. I couldn’t figure a decent way to export that content and copy/pasting was a mess.1 It is HTML though and that means I can take […]
Script to Target-Language Audio in Google AI Studio
I had a faculty request for a way to generate target-language audio from a provided script. In this case the language was Russian. I tried it Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude as a normal prompt but all of them failed pretty badly. Listen to Claude’s attempt here. ChatGPT gave up on it. Gemini got completely confused […]
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OpenStax to NotebookLM Workflow
Google put out several OpenStax textbooks in NotebookLM format. One of our faculty was interested in how that’d work in physics but that was not one of the options currently available. Looking at what was happening, it just looked like they chopped up the PDF into chapters and pre-generated some of the NotebookLM studio options. […]
Claude’s Vibe Coding Misdirection
Given I’m making a vibe coding presentation/workshop, this example seemed worth breaking down. I think it shows how different it can be to look at what’s going on in AI code generation scenarios if you have a foundation in programming and if you’ve developed a mental map of how things work/don’t work. A friend sent […]