Facing my first semester with full teaching load, I spent quite some time thinking about the ideal toolset to streamline the preparation work. Having already switched my website as well as my presentation slide setup to large language model (LLM) friendly Markdown, it was obvious from the start that I was going to experiment with generative AI (GenAI) to help prepare lecture material.

Why use GenAI?

But first, let’s talk about the “why”. Thankfully, my colleagues already provided me with lots of material for the two courses I’m teaching this semester (Python Programming and Electrical Engineering) so I didn’t have to start from scratch. But as I anyway needed to go through the material in detail to familiarize myself with the topics, and made notes along the way (of course paperless and in Markdown), I felt it made sense to prepare my own lecture slides/notes and leverage GenAI to make the process more efficient.