Monthly Archives: October 2023

1. Climate action in language education is a free online course from TeachingEnglish which aims to help you “integrate environmental issues in English language teaching and develop the skills you need to take and sustain meaningful and impactful action to … Continue reading →

1. Lots to explore on the (still under development) AI in Education website https://www.ai-in-education.co.uk/ including AI in Performing Arts Education: Crafting an Immersive Taylor Swift Murder Mystery https://www.ai-in-education.co.uk/resources/ai-in-performing-arts-education-crafting-an-immersive-taylor-swift-murder-mystery Shame she had to be murdered, though! 2. Annie Rauwerda “makes a … Continue reading →

1. The REAL (Research for Equitable Access and Learning) Centre here in Cambridge is about to start its autumn seminar series https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/real/events/ All the seminars are online (as well as f2f), and here’s the first two: The role of hope … Continue reading →

1. The Nature of Networks that Support Innovation is an interesting piece on what makes networks work by Tobias Stone https://medium.com/@newsquare/the-nature-of-networks-that-support-innovation-e496784b61c3 Don’t be put off by the complex description of ‘an ideal innovation network structure’ at the beginning: Tobias explains … Continue reading →

1. Want to make ChatGPT work better for you? Talk to it like a person, like you would a co-worker or team member argues this piece by David Gewirtz for ZDNet, How to write better ChatGPT prompts for the best … Continue reading →

1. First up today, here’s a cornucopia of recordings from the TeachingEnglish celebration of World Teacher’s Day last week, with speakers from all around the world https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/world-teachers-day-2023 Scroll down to the bottom of the individual pages for each day for … Continue reading →

1. This month’s free IATEFL webinar is this Saturday, 7th October at 15:00 UK time: Diversity and inclusion in EMI Contexts: Practical ideas for teachers, presented by Amira Salama from Nile University in Giza* https://www.iatefl.org/events/492 Amira’s blurb says, “Rather than … Continue reading →

1. Here’s a useful tip from Russell Stannard, Twee: A.I. Powered Tools For English Teachers https://twee.com/ plus introductory video here https://youtu.be/5IOb5Xxk2Hk?feature=shared 2. Jessica Mackay has done a great job again this month, bringing together a very wide range of (mainly) … Continue reading →