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Open education with crowdsourced blackboard videos

4 followers

Open education with crowdsourced blackboard videos

4 followers

Besides from minimizing the effort it takes to teach, any blackboard explanation can be turned into a lightweight, fileless video with 5-200x less memory than traditional videos. Looking for product feedback - it's ready to use anytime.

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Launch tags:Open Source•Education

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Logging in is not smooth.. I tried logging in with my google account, it threw an error. After that, I tried creating an account with my email, and got the message that my email is already in use by another user. This product seems like something very interesting, and something that more and more people are going to need from now on, but logging in should not be an usage deterrent

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5yr ago

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@luizangioletti Hi Luiz that sounds terrible, I'm sorry about this - thank for taking the time to tell me. I suspect something went wrong with the Google login, maybe an undefined first name or last name. But still, despite the error, your email was still registered via Google OAuth, so when you tried a 2nd time to log in with email, it says it's already used by "another user". Is there any chance you could tell me more about the Google login error, perhaps a screenshot / copy paste from the console? I'll fix it ASAP.

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5yr ago

@eltonlin, this is the error message I get:

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5yr ago

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Maker

@luizangioletti Great that's super helpful, so `kind` takes on the value of 'student', 'staff' or 'affiliate' for MIT login, but is undefined for Google login. I deployed a fix such that it's initialized as an emptry string, try it again now with Google Login and "it should work" : )

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5yr ago

@eltonlin It worked!

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5yr ago

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Maker

@luizangioletti ; )

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5yr ago

Great Product Elton need some improvement though, you creatively crafted all the needs, If you do not afford of money for the time being Just share that product to Indian teacher "Ranjitsinh Disale", who is recently Appointed As World Bank Education Advisor (who donated all his prize money after winning the global teacher's prize) If he recognizes your great product, I think you can create a great Social Impact, and In the Process also Earn Dollars from (World Bank). Hope I make sense, and this helps. BTW Great Product, keep inspiring everyone like me

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5yr ago

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Maker

Thanks! Can you elaborate on “need some improvement”? Also, what’s the best way to share it with Mr Disale? :—)

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5yr ago

This is the best way I have ever seen in my total education because in my country there is no type of explanation like this and I would really love that because I learned from these type of explanation from KnowledgeCity which is a very good practice of explanation and encourage student to learn more about techology.

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4yr ago

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Maker

As Comp. Sci. classes got harder at college, I got stuck more often, and wouldn't be able to get help. Office Hours would have an immensely long wait-time, and my peers would be too busy to help me, so I got bitter. This project was, in that sense, made as an attempt to save myself from graduating late.

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5yr ago

Decks

Cool product!, the recording feature is a nice touch

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5yr ago

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Maker

@jsnmng thanks Jason, it's my favorite feature hands-down. Once you use it, feel free to share honest feedback on this page anytime (especially non-positive ones) - I'll read it and make the app better. Meanwhile have a great one ; )

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5yr ago

Decks

@eltonlin Hey Elton, the product is great! I got a little bit confused around if you are showing off an app or just the feature. If you were showing off the app I had trouble seeing how everything comes together. Love the shared blackboard and recording though. Is this is open source project?

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5yr ago

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Maker

Ah, the video was trying to show how everything fits together ie how do helpers come together in the first place. It’s not a great video by any means…was a 2nd iteration. The project is here: https://github.com/project-feynm...

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5yr ago

Seems like a really cool product, I look forward to trying it out!

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5yr ago

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Maker

@michael_laigaard thanks, let me know if there's anything, I'll be as responsive as possible

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5yr ago

Simple Utm

Awesome idea!

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5yr ago

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Maker

@thea_mark thank you ; )

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5yr ago

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