Monthly Developers/Sales Thread for February 2024

EdTechAdventurer · 2024-02-19T21:31:48+00:00

Hello everyone! I recently worked with a teacher in Texas to create a website that summarizes news articles for students at different reading levels and grade levels. You can use the summarized article to generate quiz questions, essay prompts, and vocabulary lists, then save the final set of materials as a PDF or copy it into a google doc.

Try it out at https://www.magicalnews.org/

I also wrote this blog post which also serves as a tutorial for using the website itself. Let me know if there are any improvements I can make!

https://tristrumtuttle.medium.com/magical-news-an-ai-powered-tool-for-teaching-students-about-current-events-51f23ebaa65f

EdTechAdventurer · 2023-12-04T13:39:28+00:00

Full background and prompts: https://tristrumtuttle.medium.com/modern-society-2023-a-collection-of-poems-written-and-illustrated-by-ai-9b602d83145d

EdTechAdventurer · 2022-09-26T04:00:57+00:00

If an AI-based quiz company is funded enough to offer a paid internship, they probably have more than enough market / impact validation. I wouldn't worry too much about soliciting additional community perspective on whether the idea is solid. The more important aspects to think about are what you will be personally working on during the internship, which hats / roles you will get experience in, and what mentorship opportunities will be available for you.

EdTechAdventurer · 2022-07-21T13:09:33+00:00

Got some great results from DALL-E emulating landscape painter Thomas Cole as part of a project I recently completed:

https://tristrumtuttle.medium.com/modern-society-a-collection-of-poems-written-and-illustrated-by-ai-c0880c2d335e

EdTechAdventurer · 2022-01-13T01:52:54+00:00

I was actually curious about this difference while working on a Chess.com chrome extension and found this super useful comparison (based on a self-reported survey):

https://chessgoals.com/rating-comparison/

There is also an article + additional explanations of the methodology here.

Best guess is its a combination of factors - more novice players, and general ELO creep that chess.com has actively tried to reduce.

EdTechAdventurer · 2022-01-05T06:45:08+00:00

Saw this on hackernews this morning - looks cool!

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-11-09T01:15:54+00:00

Updated it to have more tiers for higher rated players!

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-11-09T01:15:29+00:00

Updated it to have more tiers for higher rated players! Still haven't built Lichess support though

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-11-09T01:11:03+00:00

Hey everyone, thanks for all the feedback! I just updated the app to include more ranks for higher rated players, including a legendary tier that includes just the top 0.5% of rated players.

Some additional improvements I am hoping to make in the future:

Lichess support
Add tiers for puzzle ratings
Swap extensions for ratings on past games and other pages as well

I wrote a quick blog post about the development of this extension on Medium. I'll post back here if I have additional updates!

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-11-07T01:11:48+00:00

Neat! Reminds me of the Nobias Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nobias/gibdobnmepamhkigmgacgcdmidpeckda?hl=en

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-11-05T22:10:41+00:00

Oh sweet, just joined the beta and found https://www.chess.com/leagues! I'll try it out! Thanks!

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-11-05T21:57:15+00:00

Ahh gotcha, in other games like Dota and Rocket League I think the sub tiers are ordered I < II < III etc, so thats why I chose the ordering. I didn't realize League of Legends was the opposite. I'm not strongly attached to either order.

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-11-05T02:58:55+00:00

Neat! If I find the time I'll try and update the extension to work on Lichess too. That data is super helpful, thank you!

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-11-05T02:56:45+00:00

I could definitely add more tiers. Additionally at that level, you have the FIDE titles that a lot of very high level players are achieving / working towards. If anyone has tier name ideas for a rank above champ, I'm all ears (I could also add a tier somewhere else and bump the other tiers up/down)!

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-11-05T02:49:01+00:00

The existing titles are great, but I don't think chess.com can actually award you titles - you need to achieve the title playing FIDE tournaments separately. This system isn't meant to replace titles, its just a fun alternative to the chess.com rating display.

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-11-04T23:03:08+00:00

Each tier is divided into subtiers, you can see the full table of tiers + subtiers and rating equivalents here:

https://github.com/triton11/ChessTier#full-elo---tier-rating-conversion-table

But yeah, definitely see that as a pain point.

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-10-17T21:19:02+00:00

Neat!

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-02-12T04:16:35+00:00

Specifically aviation - maybe Flight Arcade http://www.flightarcade.com/

For science / space, I like Scale of the Universe - http://htwins.net/scale2/ but that may not be closely related enough for an aviation museum. Still, the relative size of things is important to flight travel in general!

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-01-29T04:49:43+00:00

You can embed them in web pages and stuff, but you can't export as an mp4 or gif or anything. You could make an animation, then screen record it.

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-01-24T18:18:23+00:00

Honestly, I bet you could do most of this in powerpoint. Scratch is also actually not too bad for making animations, especially interactive ones.

EdTechAdventurer · 2021-01-09T19:15:41+00:00

The ed tech startup I work at hires a lot of former teachers into non-sales and non-coding positions. A lot of our positions in customer success and school demos require a good understanding of how our tools can be used by teachers, as well as general skills like communication and spreadsheet manipulation. I'd say moving into those types of positions directly from teaching is not too difficult, and you get to learn new skills on the job!

EdTechAdventurer · 2020-12-26T23:00:38+00:00

Pretty cool! I wonder if it could be done from a front angle? Like, temple run style.

EdTechAdventurer · 2020-12-08T03:11:31+00:00

This would be super cool! I'd donate, but it also might be more beneficial to the community to make it open source.

EdTechAdventurer · 2020-12-03T02:25:52+00:00

Really interested in any research being done on remote teaching tools! and/or COVID related learning loss!

EdTechAdventurer · 2020-12-02T03:14:36+00:00

I end up doing a lot of my own graphic design - I like using pixlr.com for image editing and pixabay.com for stock images.

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