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THE COMMON CRAFT NEWSLETTER

A free newsletter for communicators, educators, and explainers

Learn about new Common Craft videos, useful resources, and the skill of
explanation from Lee LeFever, author of The Art of Explanation.

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NEW VIDEO: CHATBOTS AND AI EXPLAINED

Welcome to the Common Craft newsletter, a free resource for educators,
communicators, and explainers. Subscribe or read past issues. Hello friends. Our
focus on artificial intelligence continues. Today we're publishing a new video
that explains Chatbots and AI. Common Craft members can now download, embed, or
stream the video. Not a member? You can watch the video in full. This video is
part of our AI series. Other videos include: Large Language Models Explained
Generative Artificial...

Read now7 days ago • 1 min read


FROM ABSTRACT TO CONCRETE - A CUSTOM VIDEO EXAMPLE

Welcome to the Common Craft newsletter, a free resource for educators,
communicators, and explainers. Subscribe or read past issues. Hello friends.
Recently we've been focused on artificial intelligence and specifically, videos
that explain Large Language Models and Generative AI. Today, we're taking a look
at a custom video project that I wrote about in 2023. From Abstract to Concrete
- A Custom Video Example Link to this article In late 2023, I shared the story
of a custom video project...

27 days ago • 2 min read


NEW VIDEO: GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Welcome to the Common Craft newsletter, a free resource for educators,
communicators, and explainers. Subscribe or read past issues. Hello friends.
We've published a new video in our series on Artificial Intelligence. It
explains Generative AI. Common Craft members can download the video file or grab
embed codes in the video library. Not a member? You can watch the video, in
full, with a watermark. New: Generative Artificial Intelligence, Explained Link
to this article One of the most...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read


MY FAVORITE LINE FROM THE ART OF EXPLANATION 📙

Welcome to the Common Craft newsletter, a free resource for educators,
communicators, and explainers. Subscribe or read past issues. Hello, and Happy
New Year! Back in 2011, I was focused on writing the Art of Explanation. It was
my first book and I was on the hook for turning years of practical experience
into paragraphs and chapters. Sometimes, this kind of pressure is what you need
to see ideas and concepts that you'd taken for granted over time. In the book, I
talk about "fact...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read


NEW VIDEO: AI AND LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

Welcome to the Common Craft newsletter, a free resource for educators,
communicators, and explainers. Subscribe or read past issues. Hello friends.
We've published a new video that will help Common Craft members teach artificial
intelligence. It's the first in a series that will cover the most important and
transformational ideas in AI. More videos are coming soon. New: AI and Large
Language Models, Explained Link to this article When a human asks artificial
intelligence (AI) how to slice...

3 months ago • 1 min read


A DISCUSSION AT A PUB ON HALLOWEEN

Welcome to the Common Craft newsletter, a free resource for educators,
communicators, and explainers. Subscribe or read past issues. Hello friends, A
few nights ago, I had dinner with a unicorn, a bat, and a raven. It was
Halloween and we were in costume at a local pub. The unicorn across from me
asked about upcoming Common Craft projects and that kicked off a whole
discussion about our forthcoming workshops. I'm writing to share the discussion
because I wish you were there. Link to this...

4 months ago • 4 min read


THE SILENT KILLER OF EXPLANATIONS 🔪

Welcome to the Common Craft newsletter, a free resource for educators,
communicators, and explainers. Subscribe or read past issues. Hello friends,
Fall is in the air. I hope your ghouls and goblins have a fun Halloween. 👻 Last
week I shared a free pack of 125 "Creature Cut-outs" that can make for a fun and
creative Halloween project. Download it here (32mb ZIP). Have you created any
creatures? I'd love to see them! We're using Instagram to share explanation tips
and creative projects....

4 months ago • 2 min read


CREATURE CUT-OUTS - FREE FUN FOR HALLOWEEN 👻

Welcome to the Common Craft newsletter, a free resource for educators,
communicators, and explainers. Subscribe or read past issues. Hello friends,
With Halloween approaching, I'm writing to share a free resource that can make
for a fun activity for kids and adults. Creature Cut-outs - Halloween Fun A few
years back, I was inspired to create digital visuals that turn ordinary photos
into "Creatures" for Halloween. In all, there are 124 Creature Cut-outs (PNG)
and you can use them however...

4 months ago • 1 min read


A LOOK INSIDE A CUSTOM VIDEO PROJECT 👀

Welcome to the Common Craft newsletter, a free resource for educators,
communicators, and explainers. Subscribe or read past issues. Hello friends,
Thanks so much to those who enrolled in the Readable Videos course. It's so
exciting to see the course being a useful resource. Today I'm sharing a subject
that is both new and old: custom-made videos by Common Craft. Did you know we're
using Instagram to share explanation tips? Follow us here. A Look Inside a
Custom Video Project When we...

5 months ago • 2 min read


I MADE AN ANIMATED GIF FOR YOU

Welcome to the Common Craft newsletter, a free resource for educators,
communicators, and explainers. Subscribe or read past issues. Friends, I created
the video below this morning. And here it is, in your inbox, playing like a
video. You didn't have to click a link or open a browser. This is the magic of
Readable Videos and animated GIFS. The 48-second GIF above is lightweight
(366kbs) and easy to share. It was created in two hours using the method we
teach in the Readable Videos course. No...

5 months ago • 1 min read
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