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Open education with crowdsourced blackboard videos

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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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Thea Mark
Simple Utm
Awesome idea!
Elton Lin
explanations.app
Maker
@thea_mark thank you ; )
Pearl Lizen
I was looking for something like this :D!
Marilyn K
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.
Elton Lin
explanations.app
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.
Jason Meng
Decks
Cool product!, the recording feature is a nice touch
Elton Lin
explanations.app
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 ; )
Jason Meng
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?
Elton Lin
explanations.app
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...
Luiz Angioletti
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
Elton Lin
explanations.app
Maker
@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.
Luiz Angioletti
@eltonlin, this is the error message I get:
Elton Lin
explanations.app
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" : )
Luiz Angioletti
@eltonlin It worked!
Elton Lin
explanations.app
Maker
Michael Laigaard
Seems like a really cool product, I look forward to trying it out!
Elton Lin
explanations.app
Maker
@michael_laigaard thanks, let me know if there's anything, I'll be as responsive as possible
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