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I’m the co-founder of BigBlueButton, an open source virtual classroom we’ve been building since 2007. About three years ago, we integrated tldraw into BigBlueButton as our whiteboa…

> (perhaps frustratingly for the student), force them to iterate through something to get an answer. IMHO, I think feeling frustration is the whole point -- it's how our brains rew…

I re-read the abstract and they tried two different modes of ChatGPT-4, "base mode" and a "tutor mode". The tutor mode helped students more, but it cautioned at the end: > Our resu…

Oreos are food, but only good in controlled quantities. During covid, many of my co-workers cited putting on extra weight as they were unconsciously snacking on junk food when work…

Is overuse of generative AI by students acting like hyperprocessed foods for learning? Quick dopamine hits. Immediate satisfaction. Long-term learning deficits. How to break this c…

I'd like to echo the impressiveness of tldraw. At the BigBlueButton project, an open source virtual classroom, we built tldraw into the core. It has saved us countless development …

We use the demo servers (which have a lot of load) to test the latest builds. Try it now.

I am the Product Manager for BigBlueButton. We have been building out the project for the past 12 years to focus on one market: online learning. With Covid-19, it has been a pretty…

We're in the process of moving away from an internal build system for the packaging to having the debian package scripts as part of the repo. This work is underway for BigBlueButto…

I am the product manager for BigBlueButton. While we implement most of the capabilities you would expect in a web conferencing system, we focus on giving the instructor many ways t…

I grew up on Byte magazine. Love the covers and the articles on programming. My parents had bought me a TRS-80 Model I with Level III Basic and learned programming by typing in pro…

OK, have to say this is pretty cool. Reading about how to do something is good, but ephemeral. Applying what you are learning (and making mistakes and figure out what went wrong) i…

I must have ready ZMM at least seven times (so far) in my life. Back when I was taking an undergraduate, I read it the first time and was inspired to take as many English courses a…

Cool. I wish you all possible success in your project!

I'm the project manager for BigBlueButton. Our goal is to provide remote students a high-quality on-line learning experience. Building an open source web conferencing system is no …