Using AI for a purpose

 

In my last blogpost, I wrote about how and why I use AI in my work.  Yesterday, I was creating some new Christmas resources for Light Bulb Languages, and needed to create two flowchart sentence builders, one French one Spanish, for prepositions. (Watch out for these on the website soon!)  It took a long time, because typing in the words in two languages, fiddling about with the formatting of the boxes and adding the arrows takes a long time to get right.  It got me wondering if there was something I could do, a tool I could create, to help me to make these sentence builders more quickly and more easily.

I went to my AI tool of choice, Claude.ai, uploaded one of the sentence builders that I had just created, and asked it: "Is it possible to build an app or tool that helps teachers to make sentence builders like this? Teachers could type in the Spanish or French words and how they link, then the tool could add the English and format it".

It took 5 iterations, and a few tweaks each time, to get something I was really happy with. You can see in the video above how to use it to create a flowchart sentence builder.

One thing I missed out of the video was about the English translations: once you've added the English, you can make any edits that you want via the input box, which will now have the FL and the English in this format

You can then go into this box and edit any of the English that you want.

I would love some other people to have a go of using the tool to see what they think.

• To access all the functions, you have to be logged in to your Claude.ai account, and this is the link: https://tinyurl.com/flowchartSBmaker

• If you don't have or don't want a Claude account, you can also access the tool on my website: https://www.ideaseducation.co.uk/flowchart-SB-maker.html Everything works on this version except for the Add English. You would have to type your words in FL-English pairs and put a " | " in between each of the two words, like you can see on the image above.

Have a go and see what you think!

Here's the sentence builder I made in the video, and then exported as PNG: