Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

This is an interesting site with a lot of different characters from fiction and real life that students can chat too. Good for listening skills, but probably one for maore mature students. The Mini Theater section enables students to play our roles from literature. https://www.talkie-ai.com/

A collection of free tools including an audio and video transcriber here: https://restream.io/tools

There’s an interesting plugin here which will translate anything from English to the students first language while they browse the web https://nuenki.app/

Get students researching these to see what they can find out - The Wendigo and 6 Other Ancient Monsters From Indigenous Folklore https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wendigo-ancient-monsters-from-indigenous-folklore

AI-Driven Research with STORM https://storm.genie.stanford.edu/

The Dawn of the AI Era: Teens, Parents, and the Adoption of Generative AI at Home and School https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/the-dawn-of-the-ai-era-teens-parents-and-the-adoption-of-generative-ai-at-home-and-school

Some really useful ideas on how to exploit songs using visual thinking type activities https://onthesamepageelt.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/30-song-based-lesson-plans-and-activities/

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Nice PDF to Audio tool. Will run from an Open AI API key if you have a paid subscription. Can also be used for free. https://huggingface.co/spaces/lamm-mit/PDF2Audio

Interesting AI tool for creating graphic mindmaps - The free subscription limits you to 1 a month but an unlimted subscription is only $5 a month if you intend to use it a lot for a while.https://nodeland.io/

Great collection of royalty free images created by AI https://www.lummi.ai/ free for commercial and non commercial use

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This looks interesting. Has anyone tried it yet? https://www.quill.org/

You can find out how to download our FreeFriday lesson plan here https://mailchi.mp/peacheypublications/peacheypublications-free-friday-20th-sept

Noteshelf | Note-taking app | AI-powered handwriting https://buff.ly/4gucxXN Really nice design with AI supported images and text.

Here’s another free tool to NOT tell your students about. It claims to make AI generated text undetectable https://grubby.ai/

Interesting article about the impact of AI - Naïve or Native? Do Digital Natives Really Understand their World? https://theaienglishteacher.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/naive-or-native-do-digital-natives-really-understand-their-world/

🍑 Nik Peachey's Edtech & ELT Newsletter - September 2024 - 📫 https://mailchi.mp/peacheypublications/nik-peacheys-edtech-elt-newsletter-sept-24?e=3d43d29e9d This newsletter includes links to 7 useful applications as well as articles lesson plans and some great offers on my books, apps and courses.

This looks like another interesting free platform for creating lesson materials and worksheets including interactive activities and presentations. https://to-teach.ai/