Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

Finally found the time to do another newsletter https://mailchi.mp/peacheypublications/nik-peacheys-edtech-elt-newsletter-april24

Skeleton fingers is a free audio transcription site. It supports URLs, audio files and microphone recordings. Once you upload your recording you get a text printout in text or JSON https://skeletonfingers.com/

Here’s another infographic reading activity - Pigeons - Do you love them or hate them? - Does this change your opinion? - Find 5 remarkable facts https://www.dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/IncrediblePigeons_3-01.png

Here’s another infographic reading activity - Pigeons - Do you love them or hate them? - Does this change your opinion? - Find 5 remarkable facts https://www.dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/IncrediblePigeons_3-01.png

Nice reading activity - get students to read and choose the best place to hide out during the zombie apocalypse https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/guide-to-wait-out-the-zombie-apocalypse

Top AI Glossary: 50 Must-Know Artificial Intelligence Terms | ClickUp https://bit.ly/3PLdkb9 This is a useful glossary of AI terms

Download a free copy - With its practical approach and rich content, this book equips teachers with the tools they need to foster collaborative environments, enhance language proficiency, and cultivate global citizenship https://bit.ly/3Jv0FGl

This is an interesting search engine that finds the meaning behind the lyrics of songs https://www.songtell.com

An interesting collection of videos created with OpenAI’s Sora https://openai.com/blog/sora-first-impressions

Was a great pleasure to take part in this OUP podcast on multimodality https://youtu.be/9fvnbR6lqKc?si=0yYXagOkczV1QFTl

Here's another AI speaking tutor app https://smalltalk2.me/ - There's also a level test option https://smalltalk2.me/leveltest I'm not sure how much they are planning to charge

This is an interesting tool for creating images and doing a wide range of editing functions. Most functions are free, but some (like headshots) you need to pay for. https://hotpot.ai/

This is a very interesting read about AI misinformation - Well worth a few moments to read through to get a balanced view of the real and unreal threats from AI https://hotpot.ai/blog/ai-thoughts

I'm not sure about all the dog metaphors, but this does look like a first step towards the kind of blended learning LMS of the future. https://www.studyfetch.com/

A new report from Trinity Education https://www.trinitycollege.com/news/viewarticle/ai-in-education

This is an interesting tool that rewrites and rephrases your text and (hopefully) improves it. You can then compare the rewriten version top your own version https://rewriteit.ai/rewrite

This is a very interesting AI powered search engine that provides results in 3 forms - 1. Chat style (like ChatGPT) 2. Outline style (with instroduction and bullet points 3. Mind map style - with a kind of mind map/flow diagram https://thinkany.ai/en-US

This is an interesting free tool that converts PDF materials into mp3 audios https://www.pdftomp3.com

https://www.lingolooper.com/ Looks like an interesting way to combine 3D and AI