Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

Here’s an AI Chatbot that has a voice and a face that lipsyncs and looks more like a real person. https://chat.d-id.com/

🍳EmojiKitchen - Let's cook some new emojis https://emojikitchen.com/. A fun tool for combining emojis to create new ones - Get students thinking about what they mean and creating new meanings

Drawing Prompt: Unleash Your Creativity with AI-Powered Prompts https://drawing-prompt.com/en. A free tool for improving image prompts and generating AI images

The universal character strengths - get students to identify their strengths and weaknesses https://bit.ly/3NKwmO9

This is useful to know for inclusion purposes https://www.accessibility.com/blog/how-to-make-google-docs-accessible

Artificial intelligence and English language teaching: Preparing for the future https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/publications/case-studies-insights-and-research/artificial-intelligence-and-english-language A fascinating free 76- page report from the British Council

A useful AI powered study and research tool. https://www.scholarcy.com/

Just upload an image and write a set of instructions and it will turn into a video https://pika.art/

AR seems to have gone off the boil with all the focus on AI, but with the release of Apple's Vision Pro in 2024 it could emerge again, especially when combined with AI. Anyway for now here's an artile https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2023/12/augmented-reality-in-teaching.html

Here's a free chatbot you can practice languages with using your voice. https://gliglish.com/

This is an interesting free tool to help develop reading and typing skills. It's based around literary classics, though you can upload your own text if you wish. https://www.typelit.io/

The Barnum effect https://sketchplanations.com/the-barnum-effect A great sketchplanation of the Barnum Effect - should generate some discussion with students.

This looks like a potentially powerful combination of AI and Community to enable English language learning. https://www.fluento.ai/

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Here's another great AI tool for generating images with a daily free allowance of 40 images https://visualelectric.com/inspo

Another AI platform to support teaching https://mindjoy.com/ This one offers learning insights too

Another free image generator https://gencraft.com/

Another free AI tool for helping teachers. This one includes AI detection, though I wouldn't like to guess how accurate it might be. https://www.briskteaching.com/