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Sample AI Workflow - Textbook through Slide Generation
Sample AI Workflow - Textbook through Slide Generation
One of things that has become my least-favorite part of teaching is creating lecture slides. Over the years I have spent countless hours tinkering with slide layouts and saving images to create presentations that are both easy on the eyes and filled with key ideas and take-aways. While I don't always use lecture slides when I am leading a classroom discussion, my students often comment that they like having them as a way to organize their notes and summarize key ideas. In this video, I walk through a new workflow that allows me to automate the task of creating slides, while still maintaining control over the slide content.
Tools Used
Tools Used
There are many different choices for these tasks; however, these are the tools that we have personally used in our own classrooms.
OpenStax.org Online Textbooks
MagicSchool.ai Text Leveler
Boodlebox.ai Lecture Slide Generator
Gamma.app Presentation Creator
Beautiful.ai Presentation Creator
NotebookLM Video Overview Creator
Evaluating the "Black Box" Output
Evaluating the "Black Box" Output
In order to help you understand the importance of reviewing and evaluating AI created content. Here are two examples of "interesting" choices that the AI made. These were discovered when the slides were initially shared with some of our peers. I do think that the ability to have full control over the output before publishing; however, is a valuable tool!
Unfinished text: Rise of ?? (income inequality)
Interesting choice for an icon. Related to media?
Cropped image of post-Civil War Reconstruction with a very subtle comparison.
Full Image of the Freedman's Bureau along with edited text to make the comparison more explicit.
Input - Textbook Leveled Content
Input - Textbook Leveled Content
While this video demonstrates very little input from the teacher. These same strategies work with your own personal notes, summaries, or outlines of material. The more context you can provide, the better the output will be.
Chapter 31.pdf
Output - Editable Presentations
Output - Editable Presentations
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Watch This!
AI Generated Lecture Summary with NotebookLM
AI Generated Lecture Summary with NotebookLM
This final video is completely generated by AI through the use of Google's NotebookLM app/website. Rather than feed the video the outline, the input for this video was the text of the text that was leveled to an 8th grade reading level.
There are a few interesting graphical choices/quirks in the video (e.g. Gorbachev and Regan both seem to have the same profile image); however, considering that there was no actual prompt used to create the video, it adheres very well to the script of the textbook.
This seems like a very useful tool in trying to get a quick visual summary that can be created across a variety of resources.
Video created with NotebookLM.google.com
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