I am not in general a hype driven person, especially AI hype, but has anyone tried this product? I really like it so far and it's giving me lots of great results and help.
One thing I'm doing with it is using a Youtube video to follow a tutorial, then I add that video as a source.
When I'm done with the tutorial if things don't quite work, I also upload or copy paste each finished script as sources. Then I copy and paste my scripts in and ask what went wrong. The output is amazing and so helpful and teaches me tons of things.
I also took the finished player script for the game I made as a source, the youtube video as a source, and asked it to explain line by line exactly what each line of code does, target high school students with little programming experience and keep the language simple, WOW I'm going to use this a lot to explain lines of code that are key.
I've also used it to copy and paste the content of a lesson, must copy paste since my curriculum is behind a paywall and NotebookLM can't do that yet, and ask it to generate a one pager of notes targeted towards students, include some code examples, new terms, new code concepts, and a brief step by step summary. It really does it well, muich better than ChatGPT, and I pay for premium.
There is also this audio conversation feature that some call podcasts that makes a low key conversational podcast style chat between 2 AI bots. Again you specify the source for the content of the chat and then it generates it and makes the audio file. My curriculum is divided into modules and each module has 8-10 lessons in it. I put those in as sources and had it generate a 15 podcast about all the lessons in the module. It was fun to listen to, it could be used a review of the module, you can export the audio file so you can share it with students if you need them to review for an exam, etc. You have less control over the podcast parameters, but I think more control is coming.
I can really see myself using this. I also put a link to the Godot 4.3 online documents and then I could just ask it questions. The best part is it's not an LLM, it's just an LM. That means it only uses the sources you tell it to use, to generate content, so much less hallucination and really targeted around what YOU want.
Next I'll try adding student writing samples as sources, I always have my students do some writing, and see if I can get it to generate feedback, or general trends it notices in the writing, or ask it to look for specific things in the writing and tell me which ones have it and which don't.
Anyway, if anyone wants to learn to use it more together, I'm all for it. This is the tool that is going to make my return to the classroom this January more manageable and save me time.
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Owen Peery k12teacher
SAN FRANCISCO CA
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