This is going to be a lengthy, but important post. My apologies if it is too long. Read it in steps. It can be exciting to see your app in action; adding features and improving the user interface is immediately rewarding. But there is also some safety work that should
We have a new app on edutool.org - a queuing game about managing an emergency room: Emergency! - ED Simulation GameEmergency! - The ED Simulation Game for educational purposesED Simulation Game This app is a collaboration with Craig Froehle (https://www.business.uc.edu/faculty-research/obais/faculty/craig-froehle.html)
Here is a blog post by edutool member Ahmet Onur Agca, sharing his own experiences with vibe coding for education: For a long time, many of us have wanted to bring more interactive elements into our teaching, but we have faced significant hurdles along the way. We often find that
I posted a new game on edutool.org last week. It is a supply chain resilience game, and you can sign up for an instructor account at resilience.edutool.org. The open-source GitHub repo is at github.com/siemsene/resilience. You can download an instructor manual, a player manual, and
I updated my setup guide for vibe coding. You can find it here: edutool.org — Apps & CommunityA home for lightweight, educator-friendly webapps — live demos, source code, and a developer community. I wanted this to be a general beginner's guide to setting up your computer for vibe coding.
I taught a class on vibe coding today. 50+ Executive MBA students, high variance in tech experience, high variance in what laptops they can bring to class. Challenge accepted. It went as well as it could, but I learned many things from the experience. First, why should we do this
Growth is a nonlinear process. There has been a lot of movement on our website recently. We have added several new apps to the catalogue. Come check it out: edutool.org — Apps & CommunityA home for lightweight, educator-friendly webapps — live demos, source code, and a developer community. First, I have
Academia is individualistic and communal; we rarely write papers on our own, but collaborate with co-authors across the globe. We always stand on the shoulders of giants. We meet at conferences and seminars; good research rarely stems from a single brain. Yet we are fiercely protective of our individual reputation,
The user interface of your app is the front-end, like the beautiful space you sit in at a restaurant. But you also need a backend - the kitchen that makes the food, the pantry that stores ingredients, etc. This is where Google Firebase comes into play. Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service.
One of the first classroom simulations I coded was a newsvendor game. You can find it at newsvendor.edutool.org. You need to sign up for an instructor account. After I approve you, you can set up a session, log in as a player in a separate browser tab, and
I will create a series of posts here that outline how to build your own web apps using AI coding. While my focus is on academics as the audience, this walkthrough will help everyone interested in the topic. I am a coding rookie; I do not have extensive experience in
In my 25 years in academia, technology often felt like a straitjacket. Sure, technology helped. I would not go back to running a class without a proper Learning Management System. But more often than not, I spent hours bending the tools that we had available to my will, or convincing