I admit to struggling mightily with my patience using Power Automate. I can do all of the things I’m attempting in Google Script or with Gravity Forms in WordPress . . . and yet. Some of it is certainly me. Some of it, I would swear, is Power Automate/Microsoft. Anyway, the goal here is to […]
PDF for print publishing We’ve got a poetry book, Doves Born of Flames, that was created in PressBooks. Doves Born of Flames is a multilingual poetry anthology with poems in 18 different languages (translated into English) from poets around the world, focused on peace, justice, and healing. “With love and care, and deepest respect for […]
As Middlebury closes the MIIS campus, we are also closing our non-credit online offerings. The courses were in Canvas and, in cases where the faculty agree, we wanted to provide students with ongoing access to the content. We chose to export the Canvas courses as an ePub. Canvas supports that natively. There was also the […]
We’ve got a bunch of poems recorded in a mixture of audio file formats by different people. The goal was to get them all compressed in the same format with the same settings and make an attempt at leveling the audio. This bash script was created with the help of Claude so I can run […]
Man, those click bait titles just keep coming! We have a faculty member publishing with Quarto and wanted to create a nice little publishing workflow to his Domain of One’s Own account. Set up your secrets This is where you set the information that allows you to connect to the server without writing your secrets […]
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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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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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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. […]
To see how it’d go, I used Claude Code to see if I could make a Lightroom Classic plugin to auto-tag photos with visible jersey numbers using the Google Gemini API. Adobe uses Lua as a scripting language. It did end up working but it took quite a while and, in general, I feel mostly […]
I’ve got a couple of faculty members who are doing research that involves old newspapers and magazines. The captures are of varied complexity and quality. Some of them are from the nwespaper.com site, some are phone photographs. I hear that Acrobat’s OCR function does a good job with normal scans of documents. I did a […]