What the LLM? Have you been wondering about that? What is an LLM? A large language model?
If you have been following this blog recently, you will have seen posts on a position paper on Sustained Integrated Professional Development for GenAI I co-wrote with Phil Hubbard. We are hoping this will be useful for language teachers. When writing the paper, Phil and I met regularly (on Zoom) to keep ourselves accountable. We also enjoyed these discussions and once in a while we also meandered into other topics. After finishing the paper, we continued these discussions because we were both still learning about GenAI.
At some stage, we thought it might be nice to share these conversations with a wider audience. And a short while ago, we released one recorded conversation and said we would soft-launch a podcast with these conversations. And here it comes: What the LLM? You can always listen directly in the post:
Or in your favorite podcast app … as they say … This new podcast is available on many platforms, most notably Apple Podcasts, Overcast (the one I use personally), RSS.com (where we do the uploading), Spotify, and Youtube. Please follow us on any one of them and follow this blog. And let us know what you think. You can also send in suggestions for conversation topics of future episodes.
We have recorded a couple of episodes already and will release them every other week on Tuesday, look out for them. Phil and I feel we are slowly getting better at this podcasting thing and are hoping to also have guests in our “conversation parlor” and to drop – I believe that’s the podcast lingo – the occasional bonus episode, so that you don’t always have to wait two weeks.
Enough of the introductions … This time there was no additional information about GenAI for language learning … More of a metatext, a text about a text, a text about a podcast …
The main page of the podcast is still at https://pantarhei.press/oaill/
