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I’m Selling My First AI Skill. It Builds Classroom Arcade Games.
Add the Arcade Game Builder to Claude, give it your lesson content, and make a small game you can actually edit.
How to Turn a Page of Textbook Information into a Digital Learning Mission Museum Using Gemini Notebook
How to Create A Visible Thinking Museum in Gemini Notebook
How to Redesign Your Logo as an SVG Vector Using ChatGPT and Ideogram
Turn your existing logo or rough sketch into a refreshed design that stays sharp on websites, posters, shirts and signs.
How to create vector images with Ideogram
With the latest Ideogram Model, you can make classroom posters, visual routines, communication cards and diagrams that stay sharp when resized.
How to Build an Interactive Classroom Quiz Widget Using Canva Code
(Without Knowing HTML or JavaScript)
How to Build a Custom Classroom Arcade Game in Chatgpt Sites
(Without Writing a Single Line of Code)
Vibe Coding Gets Better If You Understand Some Code
HTML, CSS, JavaScript and TypeScript for classroom activities in Chatgpt Sites
10 Real Ways Teachers Are Using Canva AI
How Teachers Are Using Canva AI with 10 free prompts to try
The Ultimate Beginners guide to Canva AI for Teachers
Part One - Create lesson slides
How teachers are using Gemini to help with grading
You create a task, define five levels of evidence and ask Gemini to explain a suggested grade for your review.
Let staff design your next professional learning session with Gemini Spark
Turn staff ideas into individual professional learning, with independent activities and optional collaborative extensions.
How to Turn Repetitive Lesson Prompts into Reusable Gemini Spark Skills
Turn recurring lesson prompts into reusable instructions with Gemini Spark.
Three Prompt Archetypes for Learning Goal Posters in ChatGPT Image 2.5
How to structure concise text prompts and use targeted in-image edits to design legible educational posters without visual clutter.
How to turn a screen recording into a reusable Gemini Spark skill
Record yourself completing a useful task, then use the recording and transcript to draft instructions you can reuse.
Gemini Spark Is Helping Me Remember And Improve My Workflows
Use Gemini Spark to turn notes about a recurring task into a one-page guide.
How to Generate Editable Slide Decks in Chatgpt
A simple way so the slide decks don’t look like they are AI generated
NotebookLM Generating Flashcards and Practice Quizzes
Create interactive flashcards and practice comprehension quizzes grounded strictly in uploaded source materials using Google NotebookLM Studio.
A new community for AI for Teachers
This AI workflow blog is evolving, and I have so much more to share.
Create a choose-your-own professional development session with Gemini Spark
Build a professional learning session where participants choose activities with Gemini Spark.
Gemini Spark AI Receptionist: Automate Gmail and Calendar and Your Life
Set up Gemini Spark as a personal receptionist. Use Skills and Schedules to check Gmail and Calendar and the Web for an automated daily briefing.
How to use AI to create learning workflows for teachers and students
This article explains why teachers and students need clear workflows for using AI in learning.
Gemini Spark for PBL Future Labs Learning Missions
A simple workflow to help create student portfolios for Micro PBL
How to Audit Lesson Tasks for Student Thinking
Use ChatGPT Work to examine a lesson task against Ron Ritchhart’s Understanding Map, then redesign it to require specific kinds of student thinking.
How to Use Gemini Spark to Research Recent Journal Articles
Find and verify relevant studies with Gemini Spark
How to Use NotebookLM for UDL Book Clubs: Choice Boards, Audio and Video Scaffolds
Create an inclusive Grade 5 reading book club with multiple means of engagement, representation, and action and expression using The Jungle Book in NotebookLM.
10 Gemini Canvas Ideas for Grade 5 Maths Teachers (With Copy-and-Paste Prompts)
Create assessment-analysis dashboards, interactive maths activities, self-check quizzes, editable lessons, worked examples and family guides aligned to Common Core.
UDL for Gemini Spark
Turn One Worksheet into a Google Doc Student Portfolio with Six Purposeful Learning Routes
How to Create a ChatGPT Project for Classroom Visible Thinking Posters
Set up a reusable ChatGPT workspace that turns a learning goal and curriculum standard into five Visible Thinking poster ideas, then generates the teacher’s chosen design.
The AI Fluency Problem in Schools
Are we preparing teachers for the AI journey or just giving them the carnival ride experience and blaming AI when they start their journey?
Turn One Journal Article into a Study Pack with Google NotebookLM
Upload one journal article to a new Google NotebookLM notebook. Then use the chat to identify what you could realistically learn from it before generating a tailored report.
My 130+ Workflows Are Now Free: Here are 50 Top Posts to Start
The 20 reader favourites, plus 30 timely workflows for better teaching with AI.
How to Make AI Images You Can Edit in Canva
How to treat ChatGPT Image 2.5 as the art director and Canva as the layout studio.
Why You Can’t Trust AI to Write Success Criteria
This workflow looks at AI-generated success criteria versus creating observable learning goals.
Google Vids: Turn a PDF or Word File Into a Video Summary
Turn an existing teaching document into a narrated video, then check the script against the original before students see it.
How to Use ChatGPT Work to Turn Any Standard Task Into a Play-Based Visible Learning Assessment
Create a teacher-reviewed game, observation sheet and short pilot plan that show what each student understands, rather than who finishes first.
How to Remove AI Slop From Your Writing: A Simple Method for Clear, Useful Copy
Turn bloated AI drafts into direct writing that sounds like a person and helps readers act.
How to Use Google Gemini Spark with Canva to Create an Editable Classroom Poster
Connect Canva in Gemini Spark, generate one classroom visual, then open it in Canva to check, edit, and share.
How to Use ChatGPT Work to Turn an Existing Assessment Into a 5E Assessment Evidence Map
Paste in an existing assessment and learning goal. Get a one-page 5E map with individual evidence points and teaching decisions.
How to Use Gemini Spark to Send You a Personalised Daily ESL Learning Mission
Use Gemini Spark to create a 30-day Mexican Spanish learning mission, then schedule a daily workbook and an evening recall game.
How to Use Gemini Spark to Create a Google Docs Student Portfolio with Milestone Assessments for Any Classroom Project
Turn a rough project idea into an assessment plan with individual evidence, feedback points and an independent final task.
How to Turn the Paper Tower Challenge Into a Process-Based Assessment
Explaining the difference between product-based and process-based assessment through this common STEM activity.
How to Use ChatGPT Voice for Better Research Context
Start with a 10-minute rant and let ChatGPT turn it into a research brief.
How to Turn a YouTube Video Into a Short Learning Experience With Gemini Spark
Find the real learning inside any useful YouTube video, then create a simple activity that helps students practise it.
How to Use AI to Plan Better Lessons Without Losing Your Teaching Style
Start with the way you already run your classroom. Use AI to strengthen weak points, not replace teacher judgement with generic lesson-plan slop.
AI Can Generate a Worksheet. It Can Generate a Project. But Can You See the Learning?
How to redesign a learning experience so that you capture learning.
How to Connect Notion to Gemini Spark
Connect your Notion workspace to Gemini Spark, then ask it to find, group, and develop the ideas you have already captured.
How to Turn a Recall Task Into an Explanation, Decision, or Application Task
A ChatGPT Agentic Work workflow that keeps the original topic and final product, but adds credible individual evidence of student thinking.
How To Redesign An Assessment So Student Thinking Becomes Visible
Upload one assessment one-pager to ChatGPT Work and use agents to find how to redesign the assessment.
How to Set Up Gemini Spark to Email You One Small PBL Learning Mission Each Weekday
Setting yourself small micro projects with the PBL Future Labs mission framework.
How to Make Editable Slides With Nano Banana Images in Gemini Spark
How I helped my friend make a genre book launch in Gemini Spark.
How to Create an AI Workflow Radar for Teachers
Alright I admit it, it’s getting too overwhelming keeping up with the latest releases.
How Teachers Can Use Claude to Turn Journal Articles Into Classroom-Ready Ideas
Read Part One: How to Use Claude to Read Journal Articles as a Non-Specialist
How to Use Claude to Read Journal Articles as a Non-Specialist
Hi, the first for this series will be free, and the rest will be under paid. Please consider subscribing and thank you to the new paid subscribers this weekend!
How to Let Students Design Their Own Learning Experiences With BoodleBox
Simple workflow for students to follow
How to Rebuild an Assessment in Claude So Students Show Their Thinking
Step 1 — Open a new Claude conversation
I Built an AI Book Club in BoodleBox That Sends Students Back to the Book
*This is not sponsored by BoodleBox , I just support their approach and product.
I Rebuilt My Seven-Subagent Lesson Prompt
I have started to post my agentic workflows into Substack notes and various other places, and consider how people on Substack interpret my ideas, especially developers.
How to Use ChatGPT Work Subagents to Design One Lesson Seven Different Ways
ChatGPT Work can use subagents to explore several ways of teaching the same lesson. Yes I know, that sounds impressive, but seven subagents can still produce seven versions of the same fairly average activity.
How I Use ChatGPT Work to Use My Computer and Help Me With Substack Growth
We all read bundles of tips and advice, and it can get overwhelming. I have been working on building around the needs of my audience - founders, edtech consultants, leaders, and teachers.
Stop Asking AI to Make a Logo: Build a Brand System Instead
Prompt 1: Brand Positioning Architect
The Complete Illustrated Worksheet Factory.
Most teachers probably open ChatGPT Image 2 and type something like:
How to use AI to help you write fully human-written blogs
I wrote this blog this morning, using AI. I don’t normally just write and publish, I normally sit with blogs for days, weeks, months, but for the sake of this workflow, I did it all in under 10 minutes.
How to Moderate Student Work With AI
Two teachers can read the same rubric and reach different decisions.
How to Turn Yourself Into a Living Graphic Poster With Gemini Omni Flash
The Living Riso Poster brings a 10 second introduction to life, something I will be using in upcoming AI video courses!
How to Make Editable Slides with AI Using ChatGPT Work
View the completed slides here - https://canva.link/x0bob06098c1ko7
Claude for K-12 Teachers
Anthropic has launched Claude for Teachers , with free access available to verified educators who register for the current offer.
Connect ChatGPT 5.6 Sol Work to Canva: Step-by-Step Workflow for Automated Design
Common Core Grade 3: RL.3.2
5 Free Epic Google Gemini Notebook Short Video Prompts
1. 90s cartoon science explainer
How To Build a Student Portfolio for a Project in Gemini Notebook
This workflow is quite simple, upload your PBL plan, and with a custom prompt below, generate a student portfolio custom report that makes checks learning at each milestone before the final product.
Turn Spanish Vocabulary into a Tiny Game-Based Novella Cinematic Overview and Novella Audio Overview
Game-based learning means using the structure of a game to shape the learning task.
Create a Learning Experience Gemini Notebook Short from One Fable.
Please consider joining a yearly membership! I make it super cheap at $50usd for everyone, I already have over 100 incredible workflows, and each sign up allows me to dedicate time for another workflow!
How Gemini Notebook Is Helping Me Understand My Substack Subscribers
Instead of studying random Substack business examples, you study your own subscriber base .
Anthropic Claude Fable 5 - Do you really need it?
A long-running model earns its keep when the job has a lot of context, several moving parts, and enough risk that the model needs to inspect, plan, check, revise, and keep going without losing the thread.
How to Turn One Worksheet Into Ten Better Versions In Claude Cowork
Put a single worksheet in a folder.
Use ChatGPT to find the market signal you are already sending
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Prompting Claude Fable 5
The official guide is here - https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-fable-5?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
How I Use Gemini Notebook Audio Overviews to Study Small Things Properly
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How to Turn Student Misconceptions Into a Reteaching Workshop Using Gemini Notebook
This is one of the coolest workflows I have ever made.
Building Substack subscribers with Google Gemini Notebook
Gemini Notebook can generate slide decks from sources through the Studio → Slide Deck flow, with customisation options for format, language, length, sources, and guiding prompt.
Turn Any Staff Slide Deck Into a Staff Agency Learning Mission with ChatGPT and Gemini Notebook
Turn an existing staff development slide deck into a short mission-based learning experience.
The Teacher AI Fluency Innovation Hub
Focus: Organising AI work with Claude Projects
How to Grade Student Work Using NotebookLM: A Teacher's Guide
This workflow only applies if you have the authority to upload student work into AI, check with your provider first.
How to Use Gemini Notebook for Milestone Assessment and Grading
Please check that you can upload student work with your AI provider/Gemini Notebook.
5 NotebookLM Personas for Project-Based Learning Blog Overviews
Prompt 1: Calm Psychologist
Turn Yourself Into a 3D Figurine-in-a-Case Using ChatGPT Image 2 + Gemini Omni
Here’s the free prompt that starts the whole trick:
Creative Ways to Customise NotebookLM Audio Overviews for Your Classroom
Demo - The Quiz Show - I made in deep dive
How to Create 5 Different Assessments From One NotebookLM Notebook
Assessment 1: The Audio Overview
How to Create Alternative Assessment Worksheets Using Canva AI
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How to Create Source-Grounded Audio Overviews in NotebookLM
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AI Workflows for Educators: Share This Newsletter With a Teacher Friend
Thank you for reading AI Workflows, your support allows me to keep doing this work.
Fable 5 Tips: Why It Works Best with Empty Folders Explained
Fable 5 dropped out of nowhere and my feed filled up with benchmark charts.
ChatGPT Image Generation Review: What Teachers Need to Know
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Build a 30-Second TikTok Animation With ChatGPT Image 2 and Gemini Omni
Three 10-second clips, stitched into 30 seconds. ChatGPT Image 2 builds a cartoon version of you and keeps the character consistent across frames. Gemini Omni generates the actual animations from text prompts.
How to Build a Classroom Escape Room Using AI (Codex Tutorial)
A complex escape room like the North Carolina Museum of History takes hours to build by hand.
How to Create Engaging Language Lessons with NotebookLM Audio Overviews
Turn any everyday situation into a cinematic language lesson with NotebookLM, in three steps.
How to Build a 5E Lesson Plan Slide Deck From One AI Fluency Objective
You can turn a single curriculum objective into a complete 5E lesson, built as a slide deck, with speaker notes you read straight off the screen, in two steps inside NotebookLM.
How to Turn Any PDF Into a Podcast Using NotebookLM
Sample made in elevenlabs about everyone’s favourite AI study.
How to Write Better AI Prompts That Actually Work (For Teachers)
I remember in the days of ChatGPT 3.5, I was obsessed with writing the perfect single prompt.
How to Build Your First AI Optimisation Workflow for Teachers
Most people think an optimisation workflow is a better prompt.
How to Differentiate Worksheets for Every Reading Level Using ChatGPT (With Prompts)
For years I rewrote the same worksheet over and over.
5 Ways to Assess Students Using Google NotebookLM (With Prompts)
I’ve been getting a lot of messages lately asking about how to make assessments using Google NotebookLM.
How to Get Better Results from Google Gemini: A Teacher's Guide
Create an 8-second 9:16 cinematic video in one continuous shot. 24fps, 4K, 2.39:1 letterbox optional.
How to Annotate Websites for Teaching Using ChatGPT Image Generation
Have you ever tried annotating websites?
How to Steer NotebookLM Audio Overviews to Get Accurate, Targeted Results
Cinematic video overviews work best when you give the model a steering document.
How to Use Wispr Flow and Claude Projects for AI-Powered Voice Learning
How do you close the gap between what you think you understand and what you can actually explain?
How to Build Your First Steering Document for NotebookLM Audio Overviews
Yes, you can steer Audio Overviews with the right workflow!
10 Ways to Remember Anything for an Exam with NotebookLM Audio Overviews
How to use this: Each card below has three parts: a Learning Goal , a Test Source you can paste to try it instantly, and a Prompt ready to drop into NotebookLM.
Why Students Struggle to Unlearn Misconceptions (And How AI Can Help)
This blueprint solves the problem of student misconceptions that survive correction.
How to Create Story Maps for Creative Writing Using ChatGPT Image Generation
This is not a prompt that works without a story. You write the story. ChatGPT Image 2 renders a map of it.
How to Design Substack Email Headers and Footers with ChatGPT Image Generation
Most Substack publications look identical in the inbox because the brand exists only as an intention (Guilty as charged).
Cut-Out Infographic Posters with ChatGPT: The Prompt Template, Worked Example and Four Variations
Before you open ChatGPT, two decisions shape everything: what to cut, and what each level needs to show to serve the learning goals you have already written down.
How to Design Master Educational Posters for Your Classroom Using AI
Step 1: Pick Your Subject
The Zero-Source Method: How to Use NotebookLM Without Any Uploaded Documents
The Seed Document Template
Design Print-Ready Classroom Posters with One ChatGPT Prompt
ChatGPT Image 2 generates print-ready classroom posters from a single structured prompt.
How to Turn Any Learning Goal Into a Classroom Poster with ChatGPT Image Generation
I’ve been testing mixed media generation in ChatGPT Image 2.
Rebuild Claude Projects in a Google Gem With Two Text Files
Recreate the core of a Claude Project in a Google Gem using two text files.
How to Move Your AI Workflows from Claude to Google Gems
You built a great workflow in Claude. You can recreate that exact setup in Google Gemini using Gems.
20 Alternative Assessment Ideas for Teachers Using NotebookLM
Formative - Check for Understanding
How to Use NotebookLM Audio Overviews to Study on Your Commute
How can a student who hasn’t read a single page of a dense topic still walk into class with the core ideas already in their head?
How to Design an Imaginary Museum Exhibit in NotebookLM for a Writing Challenge
How can a teacher design an imaginary museum exhibit in NotebookLM and use it to run a writing challenge where students distil complex ideas into 50-word labels?
The Ultimate Claude AI Skill for Building Classroom Escape Rooms
An escape room lesson does something a worksheet never does.
How to Use NotebookLM to Build a Rocket Writing Club Slide Deck
How can you create a Rocket Writing slide deck that teaches five sentence-level writing skills?
How to Use Claude AI to Find Gaps in the Education Resource Market Before Writing Your Ebook
How do you know what education ebook to write when the market already seems to have everything?
How to Use NotebookLM Deep Research to Teach Research Skills in the Classroom
How can a single research plan, uploaded to NotebookLM, teach students five core research skills while they actually investigate something that matters to them?
How to Create AI Slide Decks That Don't Look Like AI Made Them
Use a clear visual direction to make AI-generated slide decks feel more specific and less generic.
How to Create Classroom Escape Rooms: A Step-by-Step Guide for Teachers
Build an escape room by linking the narrative, puzzle sequence and learning content.
How to Create 30 Assessments From One Project-Based Learning Unit
Use a project plan and assessment framework in Claude Cowork to create a student-facing assessment guide.
How to Make Your Slides Look Like 90s Cartoon Learning Slides
Style classroom slides with thick outlines, bold colours, speech bubbles and geometric shapes.
How to Build a Complete Book Club Unit Using Claude AI Cowork
Using Claude Cowork to build a complete book club unit means uploading three files, your lesson plan, your lesson structure template, and your assessment framework, then running one prompt.
How to Use Notion as Persistent AI Memory for Your Teaching Workflow
If you have done this before
How to Study Better and Retain More Using NotebookLM Audio Overviews
Most students watch YouTube the same way they scroll a feed. Something plays. Time passes. Very little sticks.
The Art Exhibition Blueprint: Turn Your Creative Vision Into a NotebookLM Slide Deck
This blueprint solves the translation problem: you have a creative vision, a style, a feeling, a painting that defines your practice, but every time you try to explain it to someone, the words come out flat.
The Ten-Podcast Blueprint: One Concept, Ten Audio Formats Using NotebookLM
NotebookLM can produce ten completely different podcast formats from a single concept, here is the exact workflow to build all ten in under an hour.
How to Create Ten Visual Formats From One Concept Using NotebookLM
NotebookLM can produce ten completely different infographic formats from a single learning concept, here is the exact workflow to build all ten in under an hour, each grounded in strict learning goals.
How to Build a FIFA World Cup Classroom Escape Room with AI
This blueprint solves the problem of building a curriculum-aligned, game-based maths activity that students actually want to play.
How to Transform Ugly Slides Into Professional-Looking Ones Using AI
This blueprint solves the problem of having presentation content that is solid but visually forgettable.
How to Use AI for Deep Learning in the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide
Step 1: Open a Fresh Chat
How to Teach Project-Based Learning Skills: The Exact AI System I Use
The Skill Translation Matrix
How to Draft and Review Federal Grant Applications Using AI (Part 2)
Phase 3: The Complete Drafting System
How to Reclaim Your Writing Voice When Using AI Grammar Tools
Step 1: Write and Save the Skill
How to Use Your Face Consistently Across Every Piece of AI-Generated Content
Step 1: Open the Gem Manager
How to Use Claude AI Cowork for Federal Grant Applications (Part 1)
Use a two-phase Claude Cowork process to organise a federal grant application.
Why Teachers Need Better AI Memory Tools, Not Better Planners
Step 1: Create the Project Container
The Escape Room Machine: How to Build AI Classroom Escape Rooms at Scale
TL;DR: Trigger Deep Research from inside NotebookLM.
Your New HYPE FREE AI News Briefing System
Step 1: Set Up Your Morning Briefing Routine
How to Go From Vague AI Prompts to Validated Classroom Resources
THE SKILL FILE (Production Version)
How Claude AI Cowork Found 23 Curriculum Gaps in Four Minutes
See which parts of a Claude Cowork curriculum audit are available in the free and paid post.
How to Turn Your Phone Into an AI Productivity System for Teachers
Step 4: Send Your First Test Card
How to Use Claude Cowork to Create a Weekly AI Teaching Brief
Step 1: Connect Your Apps
How to Use Notion and AI to Capture Teaching Decisions You Forget
The Full Delegation Prompt
Turn Any Research Paper Into a 10-Slide Critical Thinking Lesson
Turn a research paper into a ten-slide lesson that asks students to examine and explain its ideas.
Two Claude AI Skills That Turn a Blank Brief Into a Professional Ad
Step 1: Install the Ad Creative Skill
How to Use Google NotebookLM to Promote Your Educational Book
Before You Open NotebookLM: The Asset Stack
How to Write Persuasive School Proposals Using AI (With Real Examples)
Step 1: Set Up Your Notebook
Why Blueprint Architecture Has Become the Organising Principle of Modern AI
Enterprise adoption of large language models is moving faster than the infrastructure designed to support it.
How to Transform a Boring Worksheet Into a Narrative Adventure Using AI
Step 1: Upload Your Worksheet to NotebookLM
How to Build a Personalised Assessment System Using Google NotebookLM
Step 1: Gather Your Standards — Wherever They Live
The Visual AI Prompt Library Every Educator Needs (With Examples)
By the end of this post, you’ll have a working prompt library of ten distinct AI art styles, with copy-paste prompts for each, that turn any image generator into a professional design studio.
How to Turn Any Worksheet Into a Classroom Escape Room with NotebookLM
I was looking at a boring Grade 5 fractions worksheet today. Twenty problems. Multiplying fractions by whole numbers. Clean layout, correct problems, answer key on page two.
How to Create AI Educational Infographics That Actually Teach
Step 1: Write Three Anchors in Your Notes App
How to Build a Daily Student Learning Tracker That Runs Itself
Step 1: Read the Mission Outline and Confirm It Is Complete
How to Create Unique AI Slide Decks That Stand Out From the Crowd
Step 1: Ask Gemini for More Than You’d Think of Yourself
How to Build a Complete 12-Week After-School Program Using Claude AI Cowork
Open Cowork and Point It to Your Folder
One Lesson, Three Worksheets
A ten-minute workflow that turns a single master lesson into print-ready worksheets at three proficiency levels
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