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Walnut — Quiz-enhanced educational videos
Pioneer.app winner project https://pioneer.app/winners/harrison-lo
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Adam Pokornicky
Do you create all the content and explainers in-house or can I build an interactive learning course with quizzes with your tech that i can keep private and/or choose to share with the public? I run www.daim.io which is a Registered Investment Advisor for Bitcoin and Digital Assets and have been trying to find a way to help clients/precoiners learn about Bitcoin. I have a series of articles, videos and podcasts that I share with individuals but getting it all at once overloads and overwhelms them. it would be great to be able to build a progressive curriculum that breaks the learning up, have them take quizzes so they retain information better and allows them to keep going so they learn in steps.
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@callmethebear I'm planning to open up the tech for Walnut as a platform for anyone to create courses for themselves. If you'd like, I'd love to personally onboard you to the (now private) creators platform, send me your availability to harrison0723 at gmail and I'll get in touch with you!
looks awesome! always have believed interactive learning is the future. binged a ton of YouTube videos when I was in high school to study for the AP exams and could have used something like this
Hi PH community!
I created Walnut because I find YouTube a very distracting place to learn, and that's just how their algorithms work — to keep you entertained and not necessarily learned.
Walnut is a new and distraction-free way to learn with educational videos. Every video is followed by a set of interactive quizzes to help you reinforce what you just learned.
If you're feeling confident, you can also try out Challenges. You'd get a personalized Path based on your current knowledge level. A Path is like a playlist, but with checkpoints and game rewards.
I'm looking for your feedback — what do you like and not like? What do you wish to see more of? I want to hear them all.
Cheers!
@harrison0723 I absolutely love this; I wish I had it when I was in school. Speaking of which, have you considered reaching out to schools and get Walnut into classrooms? I see a huge potential in making this like a custom tool/medium for schools.
@amrith Thanks! And potentially. Walnut right now is designed with just learners in mind. I can imagine some sort of solutions built upon this for schools/teachers, just have to learn more about their pains first :)
Honestly, the internet needs something like Walnut to exist. The web is a powerful place for learning, but without a support structure in place a lot of that knowledge just disappears. Have watched this make a lot of progress over the last few months - downloaded it this time. Best of luck to you Harrison!
Congrats on the launch Harrison, absolutely love the design and the gamification!
So far I think a Walnut is awesome! There was a bug in the android version that would make the app only show a white screen but it was fixed today. The bug persists on iOS though... please fix it!
There is not currently a lot of content but I have high hopes.
Do you create all of the comprehensional questions yourself or are they made available by TED Ed?
@anna_0x Thank you Anna! I discovered the bug yesterday and pushed the fixes (iOS takes awhile to approve these changes - hopefully updates should be available in the next few days!) May I ask if there's any particular topic you're interested in seeing more? All the raw questions come from TED-Ed, Walnut simply gamifies them with visuals and sometimes changes the form a little bit to make them more interactive :)
@harrison0723 cool, I wasn’t aware that Ted Ed actually has questions (because I’ve only ever watched the YouTube videos).
I’m mostly interested in biology, world history and technology.
About the bug, I was actually meaning to send you an email for a whole week but you ended up fixing it before I did it 😅 I even made a nice GIF that illustrated the issue.
@anna_0x Haha, that's nice of you. May I ask how you're using Walnut? You mentioned that you tried the app on both iOS and Android so I was just curious
@harrison0723 Hmmmm I'm not sure I understand the question. "How" I use it? I open the app, watch videos, then answer the multiple choice questions. Or do you mean which subjects and why?
@anna_0x Oh I thought you're using it with someone else since you said you saw the previous bug on multiple devices. My bad :)
Great design and UX, along with gameification features. Loved seeing the progress up to this polished finish ;)
At first glance, the website impresses with its visual aesthetics. Indeed, there are no distractions to learn the subject you are interested in. Are there going to be more categories? Is there a way to request topics of interest?
I'll definitely check Walnut more profoundly.
Thank you for sharing!
@veronika_rovnik Thanks Veronika, you can simply request topics in the feedback box within the app or website!
Looks fantastic! I've definitely been struggling to learn things because they were so dry and boring. Looks like with Walnut I will be able to have fun while learning, and it can captivate my attention. I'm really excited for this and can't wait to see more content!!