Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/five-tips-for-writing-academic-integrity-statements-in-the-age-of-ai/

I’ve just been trying out PrettyPolly to brush up my Spanish before heading to Mexico next week. It’s pretty impressive (not my Spanish). Great that you can create your own bot to discuss any specific subject you want to develop your speaking ability around. Great for learning multiple languages and you can have 7 free conversations each month https://www.prettypolly.app/signup?ref=bthLol

Reverse Dictionary – Find words that fit your description https://reverse-dictionary.virock.org/ A reverse dictionary - for when you know what you want to say but don't know the correct word

Go figure! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89z2v0pjl3o

This is a nice free tool that can make charts and graphs look like they are hand drawn. https://drawcharts.xyz/

Download this lesson for free - The Story Behind the Image https://payhip.com/b/fJiV

Interesting to see how ChatGPT is being used with VR https://media-and-learning.eu/type/featured-articles/chatgpt-and-vr-changing-the-way-we-learn-soft-skills/

This is a nice bookmarking tool that sends you sunday reminders of random bookmarks, so you do actually look at things again. Nice idea https://bookmarkish.com/

This was being presented at a recent conference I attended. It looks very useful for creating interactive activities https://www.kato-ai.com/

This is a great tool for creating AI learning experiences and getting AI to grade students’ performance https://mizou.com/

This looks like it’s still early days, but it could be a great way to start an online school and develop courses. https://coursemind.io/?lang=en

THis is an interesting attempt to apply the SAMR model to AI https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-samr-dozen-ai/

Here’s a nice AI powered search engine https://andisearch.com/

Making Groups Work https://payhip.com/b/vcwaA Download a free copy of this new book that's hot off the press from PeacheyPublications - Making Groups Work

A useful tool for anyone doing paper based research or literature reviews https://www.connectedpapers.com/

This site generates images of people who do not exist. The images are royalty free and can be used in the design of materials https://thispersonnotexist.org/ Great for getting images of ordinary people, rather than models, though there’s not a great deal of diversity

Here’s another image generator and editor https://www.zmo.ai/

This looks like a useful tool for creating lesson materials. You can make 15 a month on the free plan https://www.eduaide.ai/ Lots of different activity types

This presentation tool was recommended by one of the teachers on my AI Tools course https://www.sendsteps.com/en/

7 ways to get more creative ideas https://www.dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/3_Great-Business-Ideas.jpg