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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 doesnโ€™t seem to be openly available yet: https://character-ai.github.io/avatar-fx/
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Free - minimalist note taking tool https://www.oatmind.com/
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This is a nice app for developing vocabulary and getting students to write about their feelings https://feeels.vercel.app/
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An AI poetry generator??? What do you think? https://www.poemgenerator.com/
On 15th May Iโ€™ll be doing the next in a series of short training webinars about the TeacherMatic AI platform. This one will be From Rubrics to Results: How to Provide Impactful Feedback and will look at how to use the AI feedback tool for marking. You can sign up here if you are interested: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6ikMRpaJTEKWbGkIM5hkcg#/registration
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Time Magazines 100 most influential people of 2025. Great to get students predicting who will/should be included, researching people and discussing possible bias in the choice of people https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/
The shortlist of the world food photography contest. There are some marvelous images from a range of different cultures. Great to get students talking about food from around the world and reading the explainer texts of their favourite images https://www.worldfoodphotographyawards.com/shortlist-2025/
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I just created this podcast about a blog article I wrote. I just copied the URL into podpod.me and it did the rest https://podpod.me/app/podcast/f1a4d3d7-7817-4457-83a0-e6c7523702da Interesting stuff
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Multimodality in English Language Teaching and Learning This is my slide deck from the APPI conference in Lisbon - It includes lots of activities for developing multimodal literacies https://bit.ly/4d0lxmq
I havenโ€™t had time to read this yet, but it looks very interesting https://ai-2027.com/ai-2027.pdf โ€œAI 2027 We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolutionโ€
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Here is a link to a Star Wars intro creator. This could be a great way to start your lesson with the lesson aims of the day? Or just something to rouse students curiosity https://starwarsintrocreator.com/
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This 60 page manual can turn you into a materials developer in minutes. With simple to use ready-made cut and paste AI prompts that you can customise for your context, this book is idea for beginners as well as experienced AI used. https://payhip.com/b/mvsco Transform your lessons
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You can get free access here: ReCALL is the journal of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL). It seeks to fulfil the stated aims of EUROCALL as a whole, i.e. to encourage the use of technology for the learning and teaching https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/recall/all-issues
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