Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

This is a marvelous tool that allows students to engage in debates on any topic with a famous person of their choice. I just debated immigration with Donald Trump! https://debateai.org/debate really useful practice for higher levels.

This AI tool claims to be able to write the closing line to jokes! Might be nice to get students to try it and see if they can actually get it to produce one that’s funny. Could lead into a discussion of humour https://punchlines.ai/ (unlikely to put comdians out of busines.)

A useful up-to-date infographic about Nettiquette https://www.dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/netiquettte-high-res-1400x4834.png

My Digital Toolbox App is on sale for $5 for the next few days. The app has listings of 178 different apps for teaching and learning along with video tutorials where available and more that 80 recommended articles for background reading. The app runs on desktop and mobile and is updated 2 - 4 times a month https://payhip.com/b/y9xmN

The latest edition of Humanising Language Teaching is available for free online: https://www.hltmag.co.uk/aug23/

This week, I’m offering a 50% discount on any and all of our SEL lessons. These lessons link social emotional learning with language skills to help students develop some very important aspects of character and communication. To download the lessons, click the link below, choose the lessons you want, then click on ‘Buy Now’, Add you details Type in the coupon code: FLASHFRIDAY This will reduce the price by 50% https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/collection/social-emotional-learning

An interesting article with lots of useful links https://www.ictworks.org/distance-education-teacher-training/

This is quite an old article on using wordclouds https://peacheypublications.com/word-clouds-in-elt

Here’s an infographic about giving difficult feedback https://www.shithot.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/difficult-feedback.jpg

Teaching in a Digital Age: Third Edition - Download a free copy - https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/teachinginadigitalagev3m/

Get sts to predict what the strange things may be, then check. Decide which is strangest, best, worst thing to find. Create a story about how they got there. https://www.shithot.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Weird-Things-Found-in-Lofts.jpg

8 YouTube Tools to Help Learn English https://peacheypublications.com/8-youtube-tools-to-help-learn-english

20 + Things you can do with QR codes in your school https://peacheypublications.com/20-things-you-can-do-with-qr-codes-in-your-school Any other suggestions??

Crucible - Copilot for your videos https://bit.ly/3OFTkXC Generate a Twitter thread, blog post or conversation with any YouTube video

McKinsey 7-S Model for Conducting a GAP Analysis - Useful materials for #BusinessEnglish https://www.shithot.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/mckinsey-7s-model.png

The history of Barbie! Very topical at the moment. Great for creating a quiz or getting students to create a quiz. https://www.shithot.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/the-history-of-barbie.jpg

29 ways to make people buy more - Ask BE students to decide which is most useful for a range of products, which they have tried, which were used on them https://www.shithot.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/make-people-buy-more.png

Good Morning This week, I have something different for you. This is a webinar I gave sometime ago on the topic of exploiting short video clips for language practice. The webinar and slide deck include links to resources as well as lots of examples of pre, while and post viewing activities. You can see the presentation slides here: https://view.genial.ly/60c88835537e550ddaa05790 To download the video recording, click the link below, then click on ‘Buy Now’, Add you details Type in the coupon code: FREEFRIDAY The video recording is quite a big file, so make sure you have a stable connection. https://payhip.com/b/UTWFb I hope you enjoy watching the webinar and that you find something new and get some new ideas for using video with your students.