Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

This 60 page manual can turn you into a materials developer in minutes. With simple to use ready-made cut and paste AI prompts that you can customise for your context, this book is idea for beginners as well as experienced AI used. https://payhip.com/b/mvsco Transform your lessons

Here is a link to a Star Wars intro creator. This could be a great way to start your lesson with the lesson aims of the day? Or just something to rouse students curiosity https://starwarsintrocreator.com/

I haven’t had time to read this yet, but it looks very interesting https://ai-2027.com/ai-2027.pdf “AI 2027 We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution”

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Infographics for Educators - App You can now download this app for free - Get the instructions here https://payhip.com/b/G15tR

Multimodality in English Language Teaching and Learning This is my slide deck from the APPI conference in Lisbon - It includes lots of activities for developing multimodal literacies https://bit.ly/4d0lxmq

I just created this podcast about a blog article I wrote. I just copied the URL into podpod.me and it did the rest https://podpod.me/app/podcast/f1a4d3d7-7817-4457-83a0-e6c7523702da Interesting stuff

The shortlist of the world food photography contest. There are some marvelous images from a range of different cultures. Great to get students talking about food from around the world and reading the explainer texts of their favourite images https://www.worldfoodphotographyawards.com/shortlist-2025/

Time Magazines 100 most influential people of 2025. Great to get students predicting who will/should be included, researching people and discussing possible bias in the choice of people https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/

On 15th May I’ll be doing the next in a series of short training webinars about the TeacherMatic AI platform. This one will be From Rubrics to Results: How to Provide Impactful Feedback and will look at how to use the AI feedback tool for marking. You can sign up here if you are interested: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6ikMRpaJTEKWbGkIM5hkcg#/registration

An AI poetry generator??? What do you think? https://www.poemgenerator.com/

This is a nice app for developing vocabulary and getting students to write about their feelings https://feeels.vercel.app/

Long article on content curation. Also has a number of useful videos https://spencereducation.com/content-curation-ai/

This AI platform is designed to create a course based on the topic you want to study. It does this through text and youTube videos https://www.notclass.com/

Free - minimalist note taking tool https://www.oatmind.com/

Some great examples of AI voices applied to images to make them speak. This is from Character AI, you can apply for early access, but the features doesn’t seem to be openly available yet: https://character-ai.github.io/avatar-fx/

Great AI powered video editing tool with a good useable free subscription https://clipchamp.com/en/

This looks like another useful tool for creating interactive lesson materials https://www.meetboxie.com/

I just saw this in Jo Gakonga’s marvellous newsletter. It’s a video of a young man talking about how he learned Portuguese from an AI teacher. https://youtu.be/SvhlhvlCcVg?si=TxnycRcCyURlKEJp It’s a bit of a promotion for the company, but still interesting.

Here's a new lesson plan on procrastination and how to beat it - https://payhip.com/b/3w2ol Help your students boost their productivity and their English skills with this thought-provoking lesson on procrastination! Using a vibrant, easy-to-follow infographic, learners reflect on their own habits, explore 15 practical tips to stay on task, and engage in meaningful discussions that build critical thinking and fluency. Perfect for Business English or life skills-focused classes, this ready-to-teach lesson brings language to life with real-world relevance and high learner engagement.