Episode Details

Kane from the Teachers AI Cafe demonstrates OpenAI’s new ChatGPT/Codex “Sites” feature, showing how teachers can quickly build and refine custom student websites with low-literacy-friendly content, quizzes, and shareable URLs. He walks through creating a Year 8 Battle of Hastings site, then showcases an interactive Year 10 “Rise of Hitler” online escape room with six challenges, codes, hints, and a reset button, built from an existing paper resource. He explains privacy and permission settings, URL structure, and how Sites can automatically link to external primary sources. Kane also shares a “Democracy Under Pressure” Weimar Germany lesson site, notes rapid iteration times, discusses restyling attempts using the Bayeux Tapestry aesthetic, and shows generating a downloadable standalone offline HTML version for classroom use.

00:00 Welcome to AI Cafe

00:41 Sites Feature Overview

01:41 Why Teachers Need Sites

02:51 Build Hastings Lesson Site

04:10 Escape Room Concept

05:08 Hitler Escape Room Demo

08:52 Hastings Site Walkthrough

11:21 Restyle With Bayeux

13:28 Democracy Under Pressure

17:35 Post Task Wrap Up

18:18 Tapestry Style Preview

19:40 Live Fixing The Design

22:34 Why Visual Style Matters

23:37 Classroom Use Cases

24:31 Sharing And Hosting Options

27:26 Offline Downloadable Version

28:42 Adding Primary Sources

31:38 Review Results And Timing

33:47 How To Access Sites

34:24 Final Thoughts And Community

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