Author Archives: Todd Bryant

Working with students Noah Lape, Aziz Muminov, and Youssif Golda, we’ve written a simple application that allows instructors to embed a chatbot within Moodle. In the code, you can set the name the bot will use for the simulated conversation … Continue reading

Enter the description of your conversation or activity here for the chatbot:

In the last post, we introduced NotebookLM as a way to create AI focused queries on a user’s selection of texts for education in research. There have been other improvements in the capabilities of the AI models, particularly in the … Continue reading

One of the weaknesses with AI has been that its answers are always very general. The response is based on their language models containing enormous amounts of text from the web. In many cases, this provides an adequate answer, but … Continue reading

Background – This demonstration is one simplified theoretical example of how students can use AI to improve their research and also layout the process broadly step by step. As of now, all the tools mentioned below are free to use … Continue reading

The Dickinson College 1492 Historical Scenario mod for Civilization V, created by Patrick Schlee and Edwin Padilla and advised by Professor Ed Webb and Todd Bryant, aims to provide a historical environment representing Europe and the Americas with the greatest possible historical … Continue reading

The Dickinson College Colonization of Africa mod for Civilization V, created by Shayna Solomon and Edwin Padilla and advised by Professor Ed Webb and Todd Bryant, aims to teach students the decision-making process of both colonial leaders and those leaders … Continue reading

We’re just about set for our week of workshops on Monday. These don’t include our discussions and break-out sessions. As always, all of our notes are public. Monday Delicious, Twitter, and Google+ Blogs, RSS, and Collaborative Writing Open Content Tuesday … Continue reading

Select your x axis, y axis, bubble size and set colors to unique. If we use homicides and GDP per capita, do we see a correlation of time. If so, the bubbles should move up and to the right, or … Continue reading