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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is a really useful time-saver that summarises terms of use for you https://docdecoder.app/

This is an interesting tool to stop procrastinating and help people to value their time more https://failflow.com/

This is a great tool/plugin to help you analyse research data https://numerous.ai/