Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

A nice simple chatbot with voice that students can practice chatting to. https://pi.ai/talk

Multimodality: Communication Skills for Today's Generation https://elt.oup.com/feature/global/expert/multimodality Download the white paper and toolkit for free.

Great activity to get students discussing ethical issues. https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/

A nice interactive collection of internet artifacts through history https://buff.ly/3tM0RvK great for quizzes and research

This looks like a useful free tool for creating podcasts and audio series. You can also monetize your audios and pay a small percentage to the platform https://mumbler.io/en

This tool claims to increase reading speed x3 by highlighting verbs, nouns and adjective in different colours. https://www.readswiftly.com/index.php

This claims to be an AI tool that will help to develop essay writing skills. https://essay.app/

Free download - After decades of turbulence and acute crises in recent years, how can we build a better future for Higher Education? https://buff.ly/3s3moQd

Here’s another AI tool for creating language teaching materials https://lingoteach.ai/ You can also find a review here: https://fltmag.com/lingoteach-ai-simplifies-resource-creation/

Microsoft’s AI has enabled Project Gutenberg to convert their collection to free audio books, even with differnt voices for the different parts in Shakespeare’s plays https://marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-public/Website/index.html

Another useful AI Tools directory. It has catagories for education and speech gneration which are useful https://supertools.therundown.ai/

Some useful advice from Common Sense https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/chatgpt-and-beyond-how-to-handle-ai-in-schools?j=9492571&sfmc_sub=170703977&l=2048712_HTML&u=225940934&mid=6409703&jb=3010&utm_source=edu_nl_2023.10.24&utm_medium=email

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This looks like a useful study and research tool. https://www.getrecall.ai/

Here’s another AI tools directory https://nextgentool.io/

I’m glad to say that the wait is finally over and the AI Tools for the English Language Classroom course is ready for its pilot launch (Might still be a few teething problems along the way). I’ve taken a different approach to this course and the content will be dripped in each week over the course of 10 weeks. You’ll still have lifetime access and all the time you want to complete the tasks and assignments, but I’m hoping the drip feed approach will help to develop deeper engagement with the course, the other participants and the learning content (learning isn’t something we should rush through). At present, the course is available at the introductory price of $30 If you are a member, you can find a 30% discount code in the Teacher’s Classroom App in the ‘What’s New’ section. https://payhip.com/b/SlZk7

This looks like an interesting tool for creating all sorts of classroom content by aggregating materials from a range of different AI tools. There’s a 3 week free trial https://aidemia.co Let me know what you think