Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

https://peacheypublications.com/3-dictation-activities-for-the-remote-and-physical-classroom 3 Dictation Activities for the Remote and Physical Classroom

Useful information if you are thinking of making educational video. https://fltmag.com/interactive-video-tools-comparison/

https://voicemaker.in/ This is a nice simple tool for creating short audios with a very cheap subscription if you want to make longer audios.

https://peacheypublications.com/10-activities-to-develop-students-empathy-through-visual-narrative 10 Activities to develop students’ empathy through visual narrative

An interesting article from El Pais https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-02-24/ai-in-the-classroom-i-require-my-students-to-use-chatgpt.html#

A useful productivity focused chatbot with a good useable free subscription https://writesonic.com/chat

https://www.eweek.com/artificial-intelligence/best-ai-chatbots/ Quite a lot of ads on this site, but it’s an interesting list with some useful details further down the page.

This might be fiun to try with students. They chat for 2 minutes and then have to decide if they were chatting with a bot or a real person https://humanornot.so/

Interesting article about the potentially revolutionary impact of AI on Learning management Systems (LMS) https://elearningindustry.com/future-of-learning-management-systems-nextgen-tools-vr-ar-to-ai-driven-teacher-assistants

This is an AI video creation platform that enables you to create 2 second videos based on text prompts. here’s an example https://app.haiper.ai/creation/65e9d896ae8ca5c91c21999b

Here’s another AI conversational partner bot that has been designed to help develop speaking skills. It inlcudes thngs like IELTS practice. After the conversations it offers feedback and tips for improving. You can get 2 sessions for free. A subscription is about $7 a month for 40 x 30 minute sessions https://vocalo.ai/

Interesting article from Times Higher Ed https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/can-academics-tell-difference-between-aigenerated-and-humanauthored-content?spMailingID=28472936&spUserID=MTAxNzcwOTEyMTAyNAS2&spJobID=2411788486&spReportId=MjQxMTc4ODQ4NgS2

This looks interesting https://aptolearn.com?ref=9551d98c They are offering lifetime free mebership for early sign ups

This looks interesting https://aptolearn.com?ref=9551d98c They are offering lifetime free mebership for early sign ups

Here's a nice idea for encouraging creativity in the classroom: https://youtu.be/_qcSmbQnEwU?si=F-vtWzcHuWMFsRvc

Interesting article and video about the 60-year history of AI chatbots https://www.theverge.com/24054603/chatbot-chatgpt-eliza-history-ai-assistants-video

Been trying out Stunn AI video creator https://buff.ly/49sp36k it created this script and video based on a simple prompt about the SDGs. It looks like it pulls royalty free stock video in to illustrate the script. The voice was generated by Stunn https://www.stunnvideo.com/watch/a0415e02-076f-47ca-8eea-5594ebb0359a

A free ‘real time’ voice translator https://iztalk.ai/

Here’s a free plugin the translates subtitles into over 100 languages https://immersivetranslate.com/en/f-video-subtitle-translate/