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Quick links to useful resources for teaching and learning with educational technology
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Free download - After decades of turbulence and acute crises in recent years, how can we build a better future for Higher Education? https://buff.ly/3s3moQd
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This claims to be an AI tool that will help to develop essay writing skills. https://essay.app/
This tool claims to increase reading speed x3 by highlighting verbs, nouns and adjective in different colours. https://www.readswiftly.com/index.php
This looks like a useful free tool for creating podcasts and audio series. You can also monetize your audios and pay a small percentage to the platform https://mumbler.io/en
A nice interactive collection of internet artifacts through history https://buff.ly/3tM0RvK great for quizzes and research
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Multimodality: Communication Skills for Today's Generation https://elt.oup.com/feature/global/expert/multimodality Download the white paper and toolkit for free.
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This is a free tool for generating a complete set of lesson materials based on a topic, video or text https://beta.diffit.me/
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This is a story co-wrting tool that has a useful free subscription. It's worth looking at to see how AI tools can be used as creative writin gpartners. This could be very useful for students https://www.squibler.io/
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An AI tool for automatically generating background music based on a text description https://www.word.band/discover
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This is a great tool to add background sounds during class to aid concentration, or for background sounds when storytelling. https://neal.fun/ambient-chaos/
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FreeFriday offer, and this week, in anticipation of the upcoming Black Friday, the lesson plan is on the subject of shopping.

This lesson comes from the Conversation & Listening series.
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This is an interesting tool to develop speaking and listening skills using 'Shadowing' on videos or audios. https://www.openlang.ai/
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This site introduces a number of marketing techniques that are used on us to get our money or attention, Great to get students reading and seeing how many they recognise from their social media activity https://neal.fun/dark-patterns/
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Haven't tried this yet. Would be interested to hear how well it works for you. https://cramjam.io/
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