Interesting infographic about the way that colour influences people’s perception of parts of a website. Would be useful materials for supporting the development of multimodal literacies https://www.shithot.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/choose-a-colour-for-your-website.png

Here’s an interesting tool that helps you write and changes the level pf formality of the text. Could be worth exploring with students. At present it is free and doesn’t require a login https://writetone.com/

A tool to help students ‘humanize’ AI produced text in order to trick AI detectors. Yes It’s just that simple! https://phrasly.ai/

Students can use this AI tool for creating CV/Resumes and cover letters. It also includes some tips and templates. https://resumetrick.com/

An interesting review of Formative AI - a tool for assessing and marking students homework https://fltmag.com/formative-ai/

A good balanced article https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/artificial-intelligence-the-rise-of-chatgpt-and-its-implications/

This is an AI tool for factchecking fake news. It’s a free extension for the Chrome browser. It claims to work on images as well as text https://www.debunkd.io/

This is an AI tool for factchecking fake news. It’s a free extension for the Chrome browser. It claims to work on images as well as text https://www.debunkd.io/

Speechy is an AI-driven speaking assistant, offering personalized feedback to enhance your speaking skills and boost your confidence. Mac only at present https://speechy.ai/

10 Ways To Manage Your Anxiety - Useful for teachers and students https://www.dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2zm8kiwgghjb1.jpg

This is a useful collection of tools to help support inclusion https://blog.tcea.org/digital-tools-dyslexic-students/

This site has a specialised collection of AI Chatbots. Might be useful for a range of specific English types. https://www.luminaries.ai/

Tutor Lily is a multilingual language tutor. On a free subscription you can exchange 15 messages each day and get to error explanations. https://tutorlily.com/

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Shrinking sea ice infographic https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Tracking-Antarctica-Sea-Ice-Loss.png

Interactive podcasting community app https://sparklip.com

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Leo and Laura https://bit.ly/3ZcSy86 Wonderful 4 minute documentary about how a 90-year-old couple used VR to relive some of their memories together.

A really useful collection. Most of them very short, but not all accessible without subscriptions. https://rocumentaries.com/

This is an interesting short read on how teachers can identify what's most valuable and human about their teaching https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/online-course-delivery-and-instruction/how-to-be-conspicuously-human-in-the-online-classroom/

A useful tool for recording audio directly into your browser https://wavacity.com/