I am Bill Price, an applied linguist and educational technologist at the University of Pittsburgh. This is a space for me to "work in public" on topics related to Generative AI.
This site began as a repository of LLM prompts and similar materials I have developed for use in curricula I have taught, but has expanded somewhat to include presentations and other projects.
In May 2026, I was fortunate to be selected as a winner of the Nancy Tannery Grant for Open Educational Resources. I am building my OER, Authorship and AI, in public at https://billcprice3.github.io/authorship-and-ai/. It is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons license.
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2024-04-12: Three Concepts for Generative AI in Language Education. Panel presentation, Technology in Language Teaching Forum.
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2024-03-28: Let's Demystify AI and Take Initiative. Workshop, English Language Institute Curriculum Meeting. This one is admittedly a bit of a gimmick: in the early days of public access to GenAI tools, I used the latest LLMs, diffusion models, and speech synthesis tools to make a "synthetic presentation" as the centerpiece of this workshop. That gimmick served a purpose in early 2024, but I wouldn't repeat it now!
- Generating interactive learning activities using local offline models - NEW
- Generate Transcript or Subtitles from Video
- Generate Textbook Unit - see also Writing Textbook Project Synopsis
- Generate Lesson From Text
- Generate Vocabulary List
- Generate Vocabulary Images
- Generate Vocabulary Texts/Sentences
- Generate Vocabulary Dictation
- Summarize Scientific Journal Article
- Generate Song Lyrics
- Trying Claude 3.5 Sonnet's "Artifact" view for creating an OER
- Literature Mapping - NEW
- Literature Mapping for Research Topic - NEW
- Writing coach
- Library catalog search query suggestions
- Introduction Hook Suggestions
- Make flashcards from an article
- Paraphrase Assistant
- Argumentative Essay Outline Feedback
- Argumentative Essay Draft Feedback
I have had great success with these models on a 2023 model year MacBook Pro with the M2 Pro chipset, presented here from most recent to oldest model:
- May 2026: Gemma 4 E4B run via ollama or LM Studio
- March 2025: Gemma 3 12b run via LM Studio
- Circa June 2024: Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF run via LM Studio
- Circa May 2024: Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF run via LM Studio
- Circa March 2024: Nous-Hermes-2-Mistral-7B-DPO run via GPT4All
- May 2026: Gemma 4 E2B run via PocketPal AI on iOS or Android