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We're talking about AI this week.
[: [: [: [: [: [: [: [: [: [: [: [: [:Yeah, I feel like this is just gonna continue. Yes. And so the reason why I put these two together is, they're both, they'll be good to use in the classroom with teachers and students and things like that. But also, they have They're free portions of them, but then they have like a paid upgrade kind of thing.
So, I just want to point that out to start with that. They both start free and then you gotta kind of. Work the system a little bit. So the first AI tool we're going to talk about today is called pop AI.
[: [: [: [:So there are limits on this one, but there's a lot of really kind of fun things to play around with. And if you really enjoy it, this might be one that you would be interested in purchasing. So what's cool about PopAI is that there is a way to, that one of their featured tools is an AI presentation.
So what's cool. So what's cool about PopAI is that there is a way to, that one of
[: [:So Normandy, D Day, what happened, ready, set, go. And once you're there, you can set your settings as to what you want to put in to your presentation. So you can choose how many slides you want it to be, who your audience is going to be, , what types of features you want to have in it, and you pick and choose these different things.
You can add any additional information. That you think would be useful when it comes to putting together your presentation. And then once you've done all those cool things. You then click create and it makes a present. Well, first it sets, I should first, it comes up with an outline for you. So it'll give you an outline of like, what's going to go on each slide, what information you want to have there, what pieces are being highlighted is that information that you want.
So it gives you an outline. You can edit the outline or the content in the outline. But once you click change presentation, you can't change the content after that right now, that's like kind of in beta mode. So you can make adjustments to your outline of like what information has been created for you, but once it gets into the slides, you just can change the images.
So, the outline, we've got our content, I've got three sections, like understanding D Day, the Normandy invasion, the impact, and the legacy, and I broke my presentation down. And then each explains what is D Day, what's the historical significance, Operation Overlord, key objectives, goes through planning and preparation, the day of the invasion, it goes through all of these different pieces.
It's got, and I set mine up so it's small increments of , context, you can either put bulleted points, or you can say paragraphs, again, in the settings that you choose ahead of time. And once it's created, boom! You have a whole presentation that's done and ready to go! I went back through and then made adjustments.
They have an AI image. Generator that you can create images in, which is cool, or you can choose from their gallery and you can pick and choose and swap out images if they don't fit the text the way you want them to. And you can have a whole presentation put together and it's ready to go with all the information you want to do.
So if you're. Running behind, you need some help. You want to teach your kids and have a really cool presentation put together. You also might be just presenting to the staff. You might, you know, whatever you need to do a quick presentation for. It looks really professional. It's got all the content in there and it's amazing.
[:And, uh, you know, it's got the impact of microphones and audio quality, benefits of upgrading microphones, and considerations in choosing the right microphone. And then goes through all the different slides. It's got images that it's, created. And, for some reason it has, What looks like a, a beauty image from a makeup ad.
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[: [: [: [: [:And you have access to all of those things to make those options and choices, which is really cool. Yeah.
[: [:There's also then different templates. So you can do. Educational writing. So it'll bust out an essay for you. Again, teachers be aware, it will bust out an essay for you. Resume, interview, research. There's obviously the presentation tools. Also they have professional writing. So SEO, blogs, articles, so you can pick and choose which other templates you're interested in.
And then, it will. Like I'm going to go into the blog category. And once I click blog and then I have the option, like, do I want to do something academic? And then I can go into there and I'm going to go through and click on something. Ooh, they even have a best email corrector. Keyword searches for SEO.
So again, there's just so many different choices of templates you can pick from. And then you have the chance to, type in your information that you're looking for or uploading information that you already have. And then using it from there, which is pretty cool. Also on the chat with the documents on the left hand side, you have like those options and the chat with a document.
You can upload other PDFs or docs that you've previously written. And then use that file to work from, which is kind of cool. So you have the option to using whole files you already have created, or you can just type in a few sentences, depending on what you're looking for, for information to then recreate and have AI support you and save you some time and help you out.
[: [: [: [:I mean, there's a whole collection of things that you can do to
[: [:It becomes like more difficult to catch them in things, but really like, what are you learning? If you're going to be just, you know,
[: [: [: [:You get one free, so you know, and then you get a Figure out how you're going to swing it if you want to do more. So pick one that you really want.
[: [:Okay. So the presentation, you get one other things. It's just, you have a limit each day. So there is that, so check it out. It's really kind of cool. I'm really excited about the presentation thing. And then our second one. Is an AI creator specifically for kids.
[: [:, so it's called KidGeni, KID. G E N I. com. And it's called KidGeni. It's a place for magic. So the best place for kids to turn inspirations into art and stories and more. So, okay. To start with you get, if you're just testing out the site, you get 15 credits and depending on which types of things you're going to create on the site, it takes one to two credits as you're kind of playing around with it.
There's a slight work around. If you use up all the first credits and then you go to sign up for free, you get 15 more, so you can kind of get 30 out of it. So a place for magic. You can go ahead. Like the first one is art. And before I typed in, clouds in the sky shaped like animals. And what it does is it's going to be like a picture generator and they're super cool because.
It's cutesy. Like there's gonna be like cute little animals that come up. You have options and choices. You can create your image. So I want to create an image of, and then you type it in and it, you know, it's an art generator. It's a picture generator. So we've seen a few of those, but this one is definitely kid friendly and it's made for kids to be able to explore some AI.
So there's a, there's an image generator. Now what I found to be super cool, cause there's choices. So the whole thing is kind of creating with AI for kids. They have a doodler, they have stories, and they have books. Now, what's really cool is the story option, because when you go to create a story, you can type in your story idea, you can type in your age, and then once you click on the story, it'll write your story for you.
They're about a page or so, depending on the age level that you pick. Once you pick the story, there's also options to read other people's stories, which is cool. And then you also can listen to your story with Story Cast. So a kid can come up with a picture idea, type in the idea, it'll write you the story.
Mm-Hmm . You can then edit your ideas with the story and then hit story cast and it will read the story to you. And I was like, oh, that's cool. That's cool. 'cause it goes from just an idea to a written story, to an audio story all within like three minutes. And it would be a cool way for kids to get some ideas and share.
And then the stories could be connected together. They could edit other friends stories. You have access to other kids stories as well. So you have like kind of a library of stories that you can, that AI has written with other kids ideas, and then it turns into, you know, another audio file that you can listen to.
And it's really kind of cool. I had one that was written about. K. Dragon Slayer.
[: [:And then you have that option to have, to expand the tale. So if you want to add more ideas to it. Or you can also go ahead and like go on other adventures and it will continue, like add on to the story and make other little adventures, which is really kind of a cool option.
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[: [: [:So, so there's the create. So again, you can choose and create your own images. There's a little doodler where you can just doodle. It's just like a little space where you can create little drawings, a little drawing space. They have stories, again, where we talked about, you can put in your ideas, they'll write the stories and do the audio for you.
And then there's books. So you can add, so the books get a little bit longer built on. The stories are about one pagers and the books are going to be longer. So you can have all of that in there. And it's really just a cool idea. I think that it's a cool way to get kids. Kind of playing around with some AI and being creative and it's made for kids.
So it's very user friendly, which is kind of a cool thing. And as we're getting towards the end of the school year, we all appreciate a little, little time for kids to be creative and hold their attention span for a few minutes. So yeah,
[: [: [: [: [:Correct. No E on the end of KidGeni.
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