Here's the Aril 2025 edition of my Edtech & ELT newsletter - Lots of links to articles, apps and resources. I hope you find something useful
https://open.substack.com/pub/nikpeachey/p/edtech-and-elt-newsletter-april-2025

Wonderful site for creating AI generated video infographics - unfortunately there is no free subscription but you can log in a play with it for free https://www.motionvid.ai/

You can now access the Perplexity AI bot through Telegram and even add it to channels and groups https://t.me/askplexbot?

Interesting infographic. I guess the challenge is how to avoid this https://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/The-AI-Vicious-Cycle-1024x570.png

This is a nice free tool for creating social polls and surveys. Great way to get students collecting and working with real data https://www.getqibble.com/

An interesting look at how AI and AI agents may impact life within the next 2 years!!! https://ai-2027.com/

This looks interesting - There’s a free account but it has advertising - “With features like AI Conversation Practice, Essay Helpers, Lesson Plan Creators, and Rubric Generators, ClassX reduces friction across the entire learning journey. Younger learners benefit from interactive videos and story-based modules, while older students can dive deep into self-paced academic support.” https://classx.org/

This AI Infographic creator looks good - It has a very good free subscription. The paid subscription is also very reasonable. https://infographics.so/

This is a really useful playlist of YouTube videos for Teacher educators. It’s been put together by British Council https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvCfA99qTst-y6pi_79MQJ9HJv-sdqTp2

Interesting article on LinkedIn about the role of AI in grading student work. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-ai-have-role-grading-student-work-dr-rod-lane-gfpzc/

Here's a new lesson plan on procrastination and how to beat it - https://payhip.com/b/3w2ol Help your students boost their productivity and their English skills with this thought-provoking lesson on procrastination! Using a vibrant, easy-to-follow infographic, learners reflect on their own habits, explore 15 practical tips to stay on task, and engage in meaningful discussions that build critical thinking and fluency. Perfect for Business English or life skills-focused classes, this ready-to-teach lesson brings language to life with real-world relevance and high learner engagement.

I just saw this in Jo Gakonga’s marvellous newsletter. It’s a video of a young man talking about how he learned Portuguese from an AI teacher. https://youtu.be/SvhlhvlCcVg?si=TxnycRcCyURlKEJp It’s a bit of a promotion for the company, but still interesting.

This looks like another useful tool for creating interactive lesson materials https://www.meetboxie.com/

Great AI powered video editing tool with a good useable free subscription https://clipchamp.com/en/

Some great examples of AI voices applied to images to make them speak. This is from Character AI, you can apply for early access, but the features doesn’t seem to be openly available yet: https://character-ai.github.io/avatar-fx/

Free - minimalist note taking tool https://www.oatmind.com/

This AI platform is designed to create a course based on the topic you want to study. It does this through text and youTube videos https://www.notclass.com/

Long article on content curation. Also has a number of useful videos https://spencereducation.com/content-curation-ai/

This is a nice app for developing vocabulary and getting students to write about their feelings https://feeels.vercel.app/

An AI poetry generator??? What do you think? https://www.poemgenerator.com/