A collection of free tools including an audio and video transcriber here: https://restream.io/tools

This is an interesting site with a lot of different characters from fiction and real life that students can chat too. Good for listening skills, but probably one for maore mature students. The Mini Theater section enables students to play our roles from literature. https://www.talkie-ai.com/

Here’s my latest free Edtech and ELT newsletter. I hope you find something interesting and useful. REgards Nik Peachey https://mailchi.mp/peacheypublications/nik-peacheys-edtech-elt-newsletter-oct

An interesting perspective on Edtech https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-reduce-edtech-use-schools

An AI Tool for creating Rap songs. You can create 2 per month for free https://www.airapper.online/

My Video Shorts lesson plans are on sale for the next 3 days. Just $0.99 each https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/collection/video-shorts-lesson-plans

This looks like a useful free AI powered design tool https://playground.com/

Here’s a free (for upto 20k characters a month) text to speach tool that works in multiple language with multiple voices. You can upload files to get audio recordings of documents and download mp3 https://luvvoice.com

Interesting article on the pace of change in educatiopn https://theaienglishteacher.wordpress.com/2024/10/17/ai-bits-episode-12-the-pace-of-change/

As companies in all sectors deploy new technologies
including automation and artificial intelligence (AI),
workers need to adapt their capabilities continuously.
Private- and public-sector leaders have a critical role
to play in helping prepare the workforce of tomorrow
for this skills revolution. Based on the latest McKinsey
research, this paper examines trends across the major
stages of education, from early childhood to lifelong
learning, with a particular focus on the Middle East
and North Africa. It highlights the growing importance
of skills at all these learning stages and examines
how new technologies and approaches can help
students prepare for the future. https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/education/our%20insights/the%20skills%20revolution%20and%20the%20future%20of%20learning%20and%20earning/the-skills-revolution-and-the-future-of-learning-and-earning-report-f.pdf

Royalty free AI generated profile pictures https://www.piclooks.com/avatars

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Get a 25% discount when you join the waiting list for my next online course - AI-Powered Lesson Design for English Teachers - https://getwaitlist.com/waitlist/21198

This looks like a great free tool from Google - It can turn a document into a podcast of two people discussing the document and the main points. It’s still on waiting list at the moment but you can see/gear some examples. https://illuminate.google.com/home

Daniel Miessler introduces the topic of Human 3.0 philosophy and the skills and mental frameworks needed to thrive in an AI-driven world. https://omny.fm/shows/unsupervised-learning/human-3-0-skills-mental-frames-audio

This is an interesting AI powered tool for doing research https://paperguide.ai/

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Interesting article about a survey of language learners and their perceptions of AI - From Novelty to Necessity: A Survey on Second Language Learning in the Age of AI - The FLTMAG https://fltmag.com/survey-ai/

Interesting article here from the AI Language Teacher on runnning an LLM on your laptop - Some very compelling arguments for it https://theaienglishteacher.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/ai-bytes-episode-18-local-llms-an-ai-in-on-your-desktop/

My latest article for Oxford TEFL - AI tools for planning EFL lessons • Oxford TEFL https://oxfordtefl.com/blog/ai-tools-for-planning-efl-lessons/

A speech to text plugin for Chrome - Voicy Speech to Text https://usevoicy.com/