Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

An AI tool for creating short videos. It has a useable free account https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine

An AI graphic design tool with a useful free subscription https://molypix.ai/

An AI graphic design tool with a useful free subscription https://molypix.ai/

Great tool for developing typing skills and word recognition whilst reading https://entertrained.app/

Mused https://mused.com/ Nice tool for virtually exploring the sites of Ancient Egypt

FreeFriday This week as so many students and teachers are returning to school, I thought this lesson from the Conversation and Listening Series https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/collection/conversation-listening-lesson-plans with students talking about their study habits would be useful. You can download it for free over the next 3 days using the FREEFRIDAY coupon code. To get this lesson plan, click on the link below and then click on ‘Buy Now’. Type in the coupon code FREEFRIDAY and this will reduce the price to $0. Be sure to enter the code before you pay. Get the Lesson Now https://payhip.com/b/jKni

Interesting article and discussion point https://www.mheducation.com/news-insights/blog/your-chatbot-is-not-your-teacher-dylan-arena.html

Here’s a useful comparison of slide generation platforms https://fltmag.com/interactive-slides-comparison/

Create an AI avatar that lipsyncs your text. 10 free credits each day. https://rendernet.ai/

This book is available for free https://payhip.com/b/vcwaA I hope you find it useful.

Great to see feed dashboards coming back. https://feedboard.app/index.html

WordPal https://wordpal.ai/about is a AI-powered writing and reading helper that can quickly change the way you express yourself and understand words. It can create responses for texts, correct grammar, create fresh content, and summarize long texts. At present it is free https://youtu.be/0Qeq0Az6-sg?si=64lbQMwXtmVpheVj

This is the last of a set of 4 lesson plans I wrote for the British Council’s TeachingEnglish website. This one ioncludes a video viewing task about AI https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-resources/teaching-secondary/lesson-plans/intermediate-b1/what-ai

This is the last of a set of 4 lesson plans I wrote for the British Council’s TeachingEnglish website. This one ioncludes a video viewing task about AI https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-resources/teaching-secondary/lesson-plans/intermediate-b1/what-ai

Important stuff most people get wrong https://upgrader.gapminder.org/Great site for testing students' knowledge of things related to the #SDGs

This site has 10 minute book summaries of more than 73k books - There's also an audo version of the summary so you can listen https://sobrief.com/ In many cases ten minutes is long enough to get the key ideas.

This is the most realistic and lifelike live chatbot I’ve tried so far. Really is a lot like talking to a real person. https://labs.heygen.com/interactive-avatar It works best with Chrome

This is another AI powered platform for building courses that you can sell https://www.educato.ai/ - The AI also helps you build all the interactive tests and quizzes. There a video here showing you a little about it. https://www.educato.ai/_nuxt/platform-overview.RI_JfJ0L.mp4 They have both Free and Paid plans

Telegram seems to be growing from strength to strength https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/23/telegrams-userbase-climbs-to-950m-plans-to-launch-app-store/?guccounter=1