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by slidehero 2y ago
yes! a marketplace is on my very near roadmap :)
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by slidehero 2y ago
>if you can't be arsed to write it, I can't be arsed to read it I don't write my own textbooks either ;) The fact is that the slides are just an aid. Teaching is performance art. A good teacher uses slides as a handy scaff
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by slidehero 2y ago
Appreciate the feedback. I built it for k-12 educators and I've used it extensively in my own classroom. I can assure you that the tool is very useful and kids love the interactives a lot. >most rudimentary understanding of a topic
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by slidehero 2y ago
Thankfully the teacher is in full control and can(and absolutely should) modify the content and sequencing to make the content shine. AI is a force multiplier, it won't make a bad teacher a good teacher but it will make a good teacher
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by slidehero 2y ago
Of course. Every year there is usually a new area of focus for many subjects. This means building up a new library of content for that year's focus. Each year teachers will have a new cohort of students and what worked last year may no
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by slidehero 2y ago
haha I never thought of that :)
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by slidehero 2y ago
Thanks for the heads up. Tbh, the editor is not completely usable on Mobile, there are some interactions that I still need to polish up to make more mobile friendly.
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by slidehero 2y ago
>I am extremely impressed Thank you so much! I've definitely poured my heart and soul into the project :) >I can easily see this being used in the tertiary education sector, as a starting point when developing decks in introducto
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by slidehero 2y ago
I can only speak for Australia, but here "teaching from the textbook" is highly frowned upon. You're expected to constantly be reviewing and revising content from year to year and teachers are heavily pressured to continually
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by slidehero 2y ago
>on building and tweaking materials by teachers that it feels like an area AI can make a huge impact Yes absolutely. Teachers are swamped with having to create learning materials all the time and that's how SlideHero started off. I
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by slidehero 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback, yes all the features are available and users can create up 2 projects before being prompted to upgrade. I'll amend the messaging to make that clearer.
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by slidehero 2y ago
>It looks like teachers are actually creating presentations in minutes That's wonderful! I assume the presentation did not require more than 5mins to review, maybe it was only 2 slides :)
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by slidehero 2y ago
Thanks for your feedback
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by slidehero 2y ago
>what is, in your view, the purpose of your job? To teach! Creating PowerPoints isn't what makes me a teacher. SlideHero's purpose is to free a teacher from the drudgery so they can focus on what matters, and 99% of that is the
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by slidehero 2y ago
haha, who knows what the future holds? :)
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by slidehero 2y ago
I should clarify, there is a facility to export to HTML for archiving purposes so a teacher would never lose the slides they created, however editing is only within the interface.
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by slidehero 2y ago
That's wonderful! I greatly appreciate it. >Can the slide be saved locally? What extension is it? Yes and No, the slides can be exported to HTML and viewed locally, but must be edited via the SlideHero interface. I considered export
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by slidehero 2y ago
These are all fair points, no doubt. Respectfully, my response is that teachers are highly trained professionals and most of us take the job very seriously. The teacher generating the presentation will review the content for accuracy before
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by slidehero 2y ago
Thank you!
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by slidehero 2y ago
Thank you. >That could also be used for training employees. Yes! You're absolutely right. I have ideas about how the existing framwork can be repurposed and what you suggest is exactly right. >Coupled with a RAG / Internal d
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by slidehero 2y ago
>While being focused is good, do you see yourself expanding to more levels of academia? Possibly. At this point I'm a one man band, so I'm sticking to what I know best. I'm finding a strong positive reaction from teachers,
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by slidehero 2y ago
haha I can only hope! I've taken Patrick's bingo card advice and now working hard to generate content to hopefully catch some of that long tail traffic :) >if you market this right I'm muddling around as best I can with ma
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by slidehero 2y ago
Thanks! >I'm an Australian software developer in the midst of changing careers into primary school teaching at the moment. I still check Hacker News every day out of habit. Perhaps the overlap is stronger than you think! That's
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by slidehero 2y ago
Thanks. Yes I worked in web dev 22 years ago after graduating with a CS degree. I've been a high school teacher for over 20 years now though. I've always had side projects on the boil though as I love web dev and try to keep up wi
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by slidehero 2y ago
I appreciate that. It's hard to find the perfect balance.
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by slidehero 2y ago
>It has more features than what I expected. appreciate it >Can you share some details bout the tech stack and how you wrote it? I'm old school, it's php on the back and vanilla JS on the front with JQ for basic dom manipulat
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by slidehero 2y ago
thank you for the tip, this looks like an awesome library! :)
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by slidehero 2y ago
Thank you, yes there is an option to choose student age from kindy through to adult. GPT does a great job of choosing language suitable for the target student age. It's actually kind of fun to generate presentations for e.g. Quantum me
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Show HN: I'm a teacher and built an AI presentation tool
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Show HN: I'm a teacher and built an AI presentation tool
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