Earlier today, I had a chance to chat with Zach from BoodleBox AI. Wow, what an incredible conversation about an amazing tool. If you want to try Boodle Box AI out, I’ve included a referral l…

Note: Read Other Blog Entries in this series: BoodleBox Bots | Local AI | ChatGPT GPTs | Google Gems Creating some of my favorite task-helpers via Custom GPTs in OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been a l…

Use ChatGPT? Your chats are going to end up in public thanks to a lawsuit. I had heard about this but since I was working on some projects, I hadn’t spent the time looking it up. Ugh. As Nate point…

One of the features I am eagerly awaiting for BoodleBox to implement? A better mobile experience. 🚨 Educators: Ready to future-proof your teaching? 🚨 AI isn’t just a buzzword—it’s transforming clas…

While randomly scrolling somewhere, I ran across this video, Claude AI is Killing Static Courses: A Live Demo of Agentic Teaching. Wow, I hadn’t seen anything on agentic teaching, so it was c…

Need a way to teach critical thinking and problem-solving? Learn to tackle problems and make decisions. This session offers strategies to assess ideas and arguments. Discover resources to teach mid…

A few months ago, I came up with a list of desired features. Reflecting one weekend afternoon, I decided to add a few more and update the list with BoodleBox’s bot assistance. I am appreciati…

Working with BoodleBox AI chat, it occurred to me to ask: I am trying to come up with some novel ways to make custom instructions for GPTs, Bots, and AIs more powerful. What suggestions do you have…

This was a welcome surprise this evening: From Anthropic’s website, a little about Claude 4.0 Opus from May 22, 2025: Claude Opus 4 is our most powerful model yet and the best coding model in…

Creating custom GPTs, or Boodlebox Bots, Perplexity Spaces, Google Gemini GEMS, Claude Projects is a lot of fun. In this short walkthrough, I’ll share tips for crafting a Bot using Ollama and Page …

While watching Sarah Gibson’s 5 Things I Love About BoodleBox video, the first in her series (definitely worth counting down the reasons with her), and I had an idea. First, here’s the …

Creating custom GPTs, or Boodlebox Bots, Perplexity Spaces, Google Gemini GEMS, Claude Projects is a lot of fun. In this short walkthrough, I’ll share tips for crafting a ChatGPT Custom GPT. The pr…

Creating custom GPTs, or Boodlebox Bots, Perplexity Spaces, Google Gemini GEMS, Claude Projects is a lot of fun. In this short walkthrough, I’ll share tips for crafting a Google Gemini Gem. N…

Anyone who knows me realizes what admiration I have for people who can sketch and draw. My mother, who passed in 2017, was a mathematician, a teacher, and could draw with great detail. I still reme…

BoodleBox launched a new Bot, Mike. I was still a little hazy on how an individual could apply a promotional code, or a school district could get BoodleBox AI accounts. So I asked Mike bot, and it …

BoodleBox has turned on web search for all models. You no longer have to rely solely on Perplexity or Semantic Scholar for web searches then switch to another model for analysis, etc. As wonderful …

It’s a fast way to get into an app. Sure, you could hit the icon on your smartphone, but sometimes, your hands are full, and you need quicker access. It would be great if BoodleBox had an aud…

Note: This is a guest blog from my friend and colleague, Judy A., sharing about her experience with BoodleBox AI. Judy is a high school writing teacher at a local school. It has been slightly edite…

On Mastodon this morning, I stumbled across readbeanicecream’s post, asserting: As many schools struggle with how to handle the emergence of “AI” (actually LLMs), it may be time t…

Stop getting random results from AI tools and start building systems that consistently deliver for your classroom needs. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn to create powerful custom instr…

An account of #Bot creation for a High Yield Strategy Derby game focused on high-effect size instructional strategies and matching them to Gen #AI uses.

BoodleBox Optimization List My BoodleBox Bots BoodleBox Posts BoodleBox University Getting Started Step by Step Guides After testing numerous AI platforms, I consistently return to BoodleBox. …

Have you wondered what happens to deleted chats in Gen AI models? I simply figured that they would hang around forever. The short answer? BoodleBox safeguards your privacy on deleted chats better t…

Do you know what one of the advantages frontier models like ChatGPT Custom GPTs and Gemini Gems had over Boodle Box Bots? The power of the underlying model. Gemini Gems leveraged Gemini 2.5 Pro, wh…

I missed the announcement of Z.ai, but it’s a friendly AI, if a bit verbose. I like this chart it generated when I asked, “What formats can you export to?” Z.ai also offers a vari…

A short time ago, I had a fun conversation with Clyde ISD’s Saicy Lytle and Mike Neal. They are the hosts of the Ruff Draft podcast. We had a chance to discuss a blog entry I wrote about bot …

It was inevitable, just like Thanos in the Marvel movie where he says that. Gen AI, no matter the promise, is coming for your data. Claude creator Anthropic has given customers using its Free, Pro,…

Who has your back when it comes to data privacy? Every single Gen AI provider (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Copilot, etc.) is unable to safeguard consumer data. It’s a simple thing,…

Someone on Facebook asked: I am trying to build a unit that introduces/previews California 4th graders to the essential reading literary terms. We follow the 2017 McGraw-Hill Wonders 4th grade curr…

I saw this image, Best AI Tools for the New School Year (below), making the rounds from EducatorsTechnology.com and wondered, “Is it accurate? Are those tools really ones educators SHOULD be …