Mr Hammerlund

One question I heard the other day was about captions for a video. My idea was to upload it to YouTube and get the captions from there. But not all videos have them. Another option is to use Live Captions in the Chrome browser [Chrome]. The advantage of using them in Chrome is that they can be used for any audio that is run through the browser.  To start using them open Chrome Go to Settings Accessibility Turn on Live Caption at the top of the list. After they are enabled, the captions appear at the bottom of the screen in the middle. This can be a little busy and hard to read. Fortunately, it is possible to move the textbox by simply dragging it to another position on the screen. There are some tools here: a pin, something that looks like it makes the text box bigger, and an "x". The pin keeps the box from moving and the "x" closes the box, but for some reason (probably an extension) the middle button, that one that should be to make the box bigger, didn't work...

This might become my new header. ChatGPT is causing a lot of panic -- in me. On the HS side of the school, I have seen two instances of students using it to write out their work. I am not panicking because ChatGPT can write for you -- I am panicking because students and teachers are not ready for it. When I saw that a student was using it, I immediately messaged the IT team to let them know that it was happening. I got a reply that there will be a workshop in January for the upper school teachers.  That's good, but still, I wish I would be there. My talk might go something like this: Ask the audience for a prompt - an assignment they just gave their students, Type it into ChatGPT and hope it doesn't produce an error, ChatGPT does its thing and we talk about it. Repeat with a different assignment, Show how similar they are (ChatGPT gives very formulaic answers to questions like a 7th-grader), We would then talk about what would need to change in our teaching - maybe more oral an...

* Omnibox is the URL/search area at the very top of your browser. The Omnibox on the Brave Browser I recently reinstalled my browser and some of my settings were changed. One pain point for me was that I could no longer search YouTube and Drive right from the Omnibox. It is easy to go to the site and type in the search terms, but it takes time - every click counts. What I could do before was to type in youtube.com and press the TAB key*, and I would be able to search right from there. It was really convenient.  I was trying to remember the fancy code like below: https://drive.google.com/drive/search?q=%s Today I went into the Chrome Settings and found that Chrome has these settings right in the browser. To activate it: Open Settings Click on Search Engine on the left menu Click Manage Search Engines Click activate next to the sites you want * TAB can be changed with the space bar in the settings.