Week 2 - Group 3 Discussion

Hi all 🙂

Here is my share link.

Changes I made using AI Assistant: 

• Instant convert of many of the blocks to increase diversity of engagement and visual interest. For some more simple paragraphs, I converted these into knowledge checks to introduce engagement
• I got the AI to add images when it generated my course draft, which were all photorealistic style. I converted these to editorial sketches but what was really helpful is that I could reuse the prefilled prompts that it had used in generating the original images and just swap out the style
• I made many blocks of text shorter. I found it helpful to be directive with the AI Assistant, e.g. 'reduce to 3 sentences' to hit a copy sweet spot

Particularly useful features: 

• I really liked using some of the prompts from the practice exercise, especially the one for knowledge checks 'Remove all mentions of "correct" and "incorrect" wording and add meaningful context and feedback to help the learner understand why each choice was correct or incorrect'. This immediately enriched the feedback for my knowledge checks
• Potentially a bit more boring, but I find the AI Assistant so helpful in adapting format for flashcards and other segmented presentational items. You can ask it things like 'make sure the text fits comfortably on the front of the card' and it will adapt them at once.

Challenges I encountered: 

• The image generator needed quite a few rounds of prompting sometimes to get appropriate options and despite requesting that no text be featured in the images, it persisted in adding it and spelling words very strangely. I found that the most specific about the visual (e.g. 'a woman in a hard hat in a warehouse') rather than the concept that I was trying to portray, the better the results
• I really missed the option to instant convert knowledge checks into other formats
• I wanted to convert to sorting activities more but I found often creates ambiguous categories for e.g. ‘Techniques that foster open communication’ and ‘Techniques that build trust’ when it the card could be either. 

Thanks all, looking forward to having a peak through your courses!