Here’s another AI conversational partner bot that has been designed to help develop speaking skills. It inlcudes thngs like IELTS practice. After the conversations it offers feedback and tips for improving. You can get 2 sessions for free. A subscription is about $7 a month for 40 x 30 minute sessions https://vocalo.ai/

This is an AI video creation platform that enables you to create 2 second videos based on text prompts. here’s an example https://app.haiper.ai/creation/65e9d896ae8ca5c91c21999b

Interesting article about the potentially revolutionary impact of AI on Learning management Systems (LMS) https://elearningindustry.com/future-of-learning-management-systems-nextgen-tools-vr-ar-to-ai-driven-teacher-assistants

This might be fiun to try with students. They chat for 2 minutes and then have to decide if they were chatting with a bot or a real person https://humanornot.so/

https://www.eweek.com/artificial-intelligence/best-ai-chatbots/ Quite a lot of ads on this site, but it’s an interesting list with some useful details further down the page.

A useful productivity focused chatbot with a good useable free subscription https://writesonic.com/chat

An interesting article from El Pais https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-02-24/ai-in-the-classroom-i-require-my-students-to-use-chatgpt.html#

https://peacheypublications.com/10-activities-to-develop-students-empathy-through-visual-narrative 10 Activities to develop students’ empathy through visual narrative

https://voicemaker.in/ This is a nice simple tool for creating short audios with a very cheap subscription if you want to make longer audios.

Useful information if you are thinking of making educational video. https://fltmag.com/interactive-video-tools-comparison/

https://peacheypublications.com/3-dictation-activities-for-the-remote-and-physical-classroom 3 Dictation Activities for the Remote and Physical Classroom

https://www.lingolooper.com/ Looks like an interesting way to combine 3D and AI

This is an interesting free tool that converts PDF materials into mp3 audios https://www.pdftomp3.com

This is a very interesting AI powered search engine that provides results in 3 forms - 1. Chat style (like ChatGPT) 2. Outline style (with instroduction and bullet points 3. Mind map style - with a kind of mind map/flow diagram https://thinkany.ai/en-US

This is an interesting tool that rewrites and rephrases your text and (hopefully) improves it. You can then compare the rewriten version top your own version https://rewriteit.ai/rewrite

A new report from Trinity Education https://www.trinitycollege.com/news/viewarticle/ai-in-education

I'm not sure about all the dog metaphors, but this does look like a first step towards the kind of blended learning LMS of the future. https://www.studyfetch.com/

This is a very interesting read about AI misinformation - Well worth a few moments to read through to get a balanced view of the real and unreal threats from AI https://hotpot.ai/blog/ai-thoughts

This is an interesting tool for creating images and doing a wide range of editing functions. Most functions are free, but some (like headshots) you need to pay for. https://hotpot.ai/

Here's another AI speaking tutor app https://smalltalk2.me/ - There's also a level test option https://smalltalk2.me/leveltest I'm not sure how much they are planning to charge