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Tapping into OpenAI API to Solve Practical School Challenges
Amidst all the AI apps for education, I’m hoping the next wave will help us tackle unique organizational issues—not just enhance lesson plans, grading, and assessments. I’ve been experimenting with AI to address some of these challenges. For example, how can a teacher turn a simple request like: “I want to add an event called Read more
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“Leveraging APIs: The Key to Optimizing & Automating Educational Workflows”
In the rapidly evolving world of technology, APIs have become indispensable tools for fostering innovation and efficiency. During my tenure at the Overseas School of Colombo (OSC), I often pondered how we could refine our systems. What should an ideal MIS, LMS, or SIS encompass? My exploration led me to delve into APIs, databases, programming, Read more
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AWS Educate for the modern day Computer Science classroom
I always wondered how effectively we could utilize Cloud computing services like AWS, AZURE, and Google Cloud in an educational setting beside using it for offloading our IT Datacenter. Not long after that I was chatting with our IB Computer science teacher and learned of her challenges with implementing an Integrated Code Editor / IDE Read more
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Why Schools Should Move to a Hyper-converged Infrastructure
It’s no secret that the legacy IT infrastructure is at risk of failure, threatened by the growing demands of future enterprise applications and the nature of modern business. Having separate storage networks and servers results in the creation of silos which prove to be a barrier to the evolution of the infrastructure and add complexity Read more
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Thinking about revamping your school website?
I have been trying to convince the School to move away from our overpriced Website hosting provider and moving to a more dynamic, modern website with WordPress and in the process save us at least 20000$ annually. Coincidently our Schools 30th anniversary was just around the corner, and our communications dept was in agreement about Read more
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Fix it yourself with Sugru
My passion for investing and venture capitalism sparked my interests in Sugru, and I don’t regret this one bit. Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh developed Sugru in Ireland, a student of product design. She came up with the idea in 2003 when she was studying her post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Art. It is mouldable Read more
Antony Rappai 