Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

Well, it’s the first of December, and it looks like I’ve finally managed to get my FreeFridays back to Friday. There are a number of free offers in this message and not just the lesson plan, so please do read through. Emotional Intelligence This week’s FreeFriday lesson plan is based around the topic of Emotional Intelligence and its importance in the workplace. This lesson comes from the Lessons in Digital Literacy series. https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/collection/lessons-in-digital-literacy Download the Plan To download the plan, click the link below, click on ‘Buy Now’. Add your details Before you pay, type in the coupon code: FREEFRIDAY This will reduce the price to $0 Download Now https://payhip.com/b/EhTj

Interesting video here about the future of AI https://youtu.be/lgwrRn1uHkg?si=YQN-w9_DBs8DRzAh

Another interesting AI powered support platform for teachers https://autoclassmate.io/

Nice short file to use for practising advice vs 3rd conditional https://youtu.be/DwlnEYJ2I4s?si=zcnNJMJzXCPHpg6k

This course that I wrote on Inclusion is now available for free from the British Council https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/training/teachingenglish-inclusive-classrooms

Here's another lesson planning tool and quiz generation tool. It looks suitable for younger learners. There is no mention of price and you can create a free account, but the terms of use mention charging and premium accounts https://www.gibbly.co/

This is a great site to let students explore amazing places around the world. It shows them a random wonderful place from Google Street view, they can then scroll around and explore. Each student has a different experience https://buff.ly/3HsD07N

Here's another AI tool that's been designed to help teachers. This one looks more like a support for primary teachers https://www.magicschool.ai/

Here is an AI Tools Directory that focuses on tools for education. Many of these are based on ChatGPT https://aieducator.tools/

Get my latest AI powered lesson plan for half price - Click on Buy Now and add the coupon code: ROLEPLAY https://payhip.com/b/Dsxto

Haven't tried this yet. Would be interested to hear how well it works for you. https://cramjam.io/

This site introduces a number of marketing techniques that are used on us to get our money or attention, Great to get students reading and seeing how many they recognise from their social media activity https://neal.fun/dark-patterns/

This is an interesting tool to develop speaking and listening skills using 'Shadowing' on videos or audios. https://www.openlang.ai/

FreeFriday offer, and this week, in anticipation of the upcoming Black Friday, the lesson plan is on the subject of shopping. This lesson comes from the Conversation & Listening series. https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/collection/conversation-listening-lesson-plans To download the plan, click the link below, click on ‘Buy Now’. Add your details Before you pay, type in the coupon code: FLASHFRIDAY This will reduce the price to $0 https://payhip.com/b/0USK

This is a great tool to add background sounds during class to aid concentration, or for background sounds when storytelling. https://neal.fun/ambient-chaos/

An AI tool for automatically generating background music based on a text description https://www.word.band/discover

This is a story co-wrting tool that has a useful free subscription. It's worth looking at to see how AI tools can be used as creative writin gpartners. This could be very useful for students https://www.squibler.io/

This is a free tool for generating a complete set of lesson materials based on a topic, video or text https://beta.diffit.me/