On 15th May I’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

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/

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

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

Infographics for Educators - App You can now download this app for free - Get the instructions here https://payhip.com/b/G15tR

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I haven’t had time to read this yet, but it looks very interesting https://ai-2027.com/ai-2027.pdf “AI 2027 We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution”

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/

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

100 Teen slang phrases https://www.weareteachers.com/teen-slang/ with examples in use.

Good article for teachers and students - especially business students AI is coming for your job. Here are 10 strategies to stay relevant

https://www.fastcompany.com/91324364/10-ways-to-avoid-losing-your-job-to-ai

A good free decentralised and private AI chatbot https://venice.ai/

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

This is a kind of nice stream of consciousness thoughts from around the world. https://thotstream.com/

Interesting infographic showing the shift in the uses of AI over the last year: https://imgproxy.divecdn.com/YuaKQ97qQEvnluV9MISs9XorjCcjuk15BFs562A-jMg/g:ce/rs:fit:1600:0/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9ob3dfcGVvcGxlX3VzZV9BSV8yLnBuZw==.webp

This article offers an interesting view on students AI use: AI isn’t replacing student writing – but it is reshaping it https://theconversation.com/ai-isnt-replacing-student-writing-but-it-is-reshaping-it-254878

Ethnologue is a global voice. We exist to help you understand more about the people of the world, and how each language community is distinct. https://www.ethnologue.com/

This makes very interesting reading - My School Banned Phones for the Year. Here's What Happened - https://fittoteach.substack.com/p/my-school-banned-phones-for-the-year

Useful ‘Pathway’ through AI related materials from the British Council https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional-development/teachers/professional-development-pathways/pathways-ai-language-teaching

Lots of articles about AI and the future of #TESOL in the International Journal of TESOL Studies https://www.tesolunion.org/journal/lists/folder/4MzUu4NzU2/