Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

This is an easy to use 3D virtual environment that can be used for teaching groups of up to 8 with the free subscription https://learn.framevr.io/

14 years and 3.3 million views later and I'm still collecting and sharing tools for teaching and learning https://buff.ly/2S01nOb

Some interesting statistics about AI take up in US Unis https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20240627105038429

Well worth reading to get a better understanding of what AI really is - https://theaienglishteacher.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/can-we-please-stop-calling-it-ai/

A nice free video editing suite https://pikimov.com/ The YouTube channel has video tutorials for how to use it.

Doesn't look very reliable to me. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/07/the-telltale-words-that-could-identify-generative-ai-text/

Great collection of specialist AI characters you can chat to for free. https://talkto.ai/

Over 2000 books that you can listen to for free https://bookradio.vercel.app/

This is the first of a series of AI focused lesson plans I wrote for the TeachingEnglish website https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-resources/teaching-secondary/lesson-plans/advanced-c1/ai-and-ethics-education

Here’s an article I wrote for the British Council’s Teaching English website https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional-development/teachers/integrating-ict/articles/generative-ai-and-language-classroom

A nice digital canvas for creating anything you like https://mmm.page/

Interesting article - Why It Might Be Impossible to “AI-Proof” Written Assignments (and What We Can Do About It) https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/7557

Great opportunity to build some expereince of presenting at online conferences. Get started with just a 15 min presentation https://buff.ly/3W5R5R0

This is another interesting tool that generates AI results as either timelines, mind maps, quadrants or tables. You can generate upto 3 per day on the free subscription https://mylens.ai/

This is a cool and simple way of creating tutorial videos. Just click through the steps, choose a voice and the AI will script and record the audio for you. You can create up to 25 a month on the free subscription https://www.guidde.com/

Learning a new language with ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode https://buff.ly/3RKYuSX What do you think?

Get a free copy of this lesson plan from my Conversation & Listening series - The coupon code works for the next 3 days. https://mailchi.mp/peacheypublications/peacheypublications-free-friday-28th-june?e=821102b6b6

A Multiliteracies Approach to TikTok in the Classroom - The FLTMAG https://fltmag.com/multiliteracies-tiktok/. Nice article about developing multimodal literacies with TikTok

You can download this free toolkit with lots of lesson ideas and AI prompts that I wrote as a suplement to the Humanising Technology paper by OUP https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/elt/general_content/global/thoughtleader/humanising-technology-toolkit-.pdf