{"id":1702,"date":"2024-11-08T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infinitude.maherpages.net\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2024-11-08T11:45:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:45:49","slug":"notebook-lms-latest-new-thing-catch-it-before-its-old-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infinitude.maherpages.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/08\/notebook-lms-latest-new-thing-catch-it-before-its-old-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Notebook LM&#8217;s Latest New Thing &#8211; Catch it before it&#8217;s old news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;re a teacher who happens to stumble across this post and haven&#8217;t yet heard a AI generated podcast from Google NotebookLM, you can be the first in your school or district to impress your colleagues with the AI&#8217;s latest shiny thing.  History teachers know how bad we are at predicting the future of new technologies, the <a href=\"https:\/\/pessimistsarchive.org\/\">Pessimists Archive<\/a> is chock full of them.  But I&#8217;d still bet that these podcasts are going to flit across you&#8217;re awareness soon and make a big splash, then fade into the background of all of the tech tools that we use.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learning how to use NotebookLM is almost too easy to describe.  Access it through your Google account, create a notebook and upload some sources, then use the notebooks guide to &#8220;create an audio conversation&#8221;.   The audio it creates is a NPR-esque podcast with two voices that could be valuable in a few, specific use cases.  But before we determine just exactly what those use cases are, we&#8217;re going to create a lot of them regardless, because they almost always get a &#8220;that&#8217;s too cool&#8221; reaction.  You get to hear the voices of two people talking about your stuff &#8211; what&#8217;s not to like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what the podcasts sound like&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Primary Sources: Lincoln Douglas Debate Freeport 1858<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was created by uploaded an abridged transcript of the debate of Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln in Freeport, Illinois in 1858. Any transcript of a speech or a debate, or documents from a DBQ could work like this,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lincoln Douglas Debate Freeport 1858\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RHw66f8drMU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>For Administrators &#8211; Rolling Out Revised Standards Report Card Statements<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The audio was created by uploading the Google Slides presentation along with a two page document that read like an informal script, describing the basic tone and purpose of the podcast.  That document helps &#8220;tune&#8221; the podcast&#8217;s language, emphasis and mood.  NotebookLM also has a &#8220;customize&#8221; feature that allows you to bullet point these suggestions, but a document helps create a more targeted product.  The audio was then combined with screenshots using Camtasia and voil\u00e0!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3rd Grade Report Card Revisions Podcast\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gcq64tJmS34?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New instructional technology&#8217;s are so good at impressing us with that they produce that we don&#8217;t realize whether it&#8217;s useful to actually use them for instruction.  That takes experimentation and close attention to measured results.  Here&#8217;s a partial list of use cases that may be worth further explanation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create a podcast with graded student work with teacher feedback reflecting on student performance as a class.  It might sound like a Monday-morning quarterbacking on a sports talk show, but with school work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create a podcast with selections of two secondary sources, such as Howard Zinn and Gordon Wood&#8217;s views on the American Revolution to compliment a reading analysis lesson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create a podcast with your syllabus, the students are probably not reading it anyway<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>K-3 teachers can create podcasts instead of parent newsletters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create a podcast using a study guide.  Take the list of term and definitions or identifications, survey students to rank them in order to difficulty &#8211; then upload the list and the survey results.  Students can listen to the podcast before the next test.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After scraping the names out of your gradebooks and upload them to create a podcast reflection on student performance throughout the semester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Only some of these might actually add enough value and to remain in your materials a year from now, but in the meantime, they&#8217;ll impress everyone who hasn&#8217;t heard them yet.  But you better act now, because by January, we&#8217;re all going to be sick and tired of these two voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a teacher who happens to stumble across this post and haven&#8217;t yet heard a AI generated podcast from Google NotebookLM, you can be the first in your school or district to impress your colleagues with the AI&#8217;s latest shiny thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"[\"title\",\"meta\",\"content\",\"tags\",\"comments\"]","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infinitude.maherpages.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infinitude.maherpages.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infinitude.maherpages.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infinitude.maherpages.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infinitude.maherpages.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/infinitude.maherpages.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/infinitude.maherpages.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infinitude.maherpages.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infinitude.maherpages.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infinitude.maherpages.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infinitude.maherpages.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}