These boxes are meant to help students, educators, and others create materials using multiple open and freely available GenAI tools, both multimodal and single-medium tools. Throughout these exercises, it will be assumed that the user will follow the principles of the Prompt Engineering Guides, Best Practices, and other guidelines shared on the parent page. Remember to not share private and/or confidential information and to always fact- and quality-check the outputs of these tools.
1. Create text prompts for image and moving picture generators, and scripts for the video audio, using prompt engineering techniques with a text generator such as ChatGPT, Bard, or Claude. ChatGPT is the most recommended tool for this step.
2. Convert the video script to an audio format using an audio generative AI tool such as text-to-speech.online, Bark, TTSMaker, or another open or free service.
3. Use the text prompts you created in step 1 for image generators with Dall-E, Getimg.ai, ideogram, or designer.microsoft.com.
4. Use text prompts for video generators you created in step 1 with tools such as typpo.app, teach-o-matic, or Chromox.
5. Combine all of these using your favorite audio and video creating software, including free offerings like those from Canva and CapCut.
1. Create text prompts for image generators using prompt engineering techniques with a text generator such as ChatGPT, Bard, or Claude. ChatGPT is the most recommended tool for this step.
2. Use the text prompts you created in step 1 for image generators with Dall-E, Getimg.ai, ideogram, or designer.microsoft.com.
3. If you do not want to create the captions yourself, you can put the images into a text generator, such as Claude or ChatGPT, and ask it to come up with a good caption for the image. Make sure the caption is descriptive and follow accessibility guidelines.
4. For optimum accessibility and equity, make sure to use text generators to create alt-text for the image. Or, write it yourself. Microsoft, Harvard, W3C, and other resources have excellent resources on writing high-quality alt-text.
1. Create text prompts for image generators using prompt engineering techniques with a text generator such as ChatGPT, Bard, or Claude. ChatGPT is the most recommended tool for this step. Be sure that you tell the text generator to consider optimum cover or banner image traits.
2. Use the text prompts you created in step 1 for image generators with Dall-E, Getimg.ai, ideogram, or designer.microsoft.com. Be sure to include the parameters of the cover image suggestions for the particular site.
3. For optimum accessibility and equity, make sure to use text generators to create alt-text for the image. Or, write it yourself. Microsoft, Harvard, W3C, and other resources have excellent resources on writing high-quality alt-text.
1. Create scripts for the podcast audio using prompt engineering techniques with a text generator such as ChatGPT, Bard, or Claude. ChatGPT is the most recommended tool for this step. Also create image prompts for podcast section markers if you want to.
2. Convert the script to an audio format using an audio generative AI tool such as text-to-speech.online, Bark, TTSMaker, or another open or free service.
3. For podcast sections, use the text prompts you created in step 1 for image generators with Dall-E, Getimg.ai, ideogram, or designer.microsoft.com.
4. If you want video to accompany the podcast, you have multiple options. For AI-generated video such as a digital narrator you can use Adobe Express Animate-from Audio, Chromox, Teach-O-Matic, or Typpo. If you want to include moving images from your screen or something like that, you can play the audio, record the screen without sound according to the speech of the audio, and then save that moving image.
5. Another option is to include still screencaptures of your content and then have the audio speak while the image is displayed throughout a particular section. If you want to bring note to certain areas of the screen, you can use a highlighter to create different versions of the screenshot and then put those versions according to the audio.
6. If you want to create music for the podcast, you can use open source music creators such as Magenta. However, I recommend using open access music productions available on Openverse, Freegal, or another open source music source.
7. Combine all of these using your favorite audio and video creating software, including free offerings like those from Canva and CapCut.