Creative Writing and ELT on TTR

 I really enjoyed speaking to Larbi Arbaoui about creative writing and ELT on my Teachers Talk Radio show today. The recording of this can be found here, and it's also on the Teachers Talk Radio Youtube channel.

Among other things, Larbi spoke about the Oliveseed foundation and the short story competition and anthologies of student writing.

AI & Language teaching and learning - TTR with Joe Dale

Today, I was pleased to have Joe Dale join me for the second time on my Teachers Talk Radio show.

Among other things, Joe is UK Independent modern foreign languages & technology consultant in the UK Former host of TES MFL forum & short-listed for NAACE Impact Award 2013 for Curriculum Support.

Over the last couple of years, Joe has established his expertise in the use of artifical intelligence in language teaching and learning, and so it was fascinating to talk to him about this, and he generously shared his knowledge and experience of using a wide number of AI tools and how to use them with language learners.

The recording of the show is below (and another (longer) audio recording is here)

Joe shared the transcript of our conversation here, and an audio overview, produced by Google's notetaking assistant, NotebookLM. 

I highly recommend keeping an eye on Joe through Twitter (X) and following Joe's Youtube channel if you want more useful ideas. 

Joe also runs the Language Teaching with AI Facebook group, which has become a thriving community, with lots of sharing of ideas and discussion on how best to use AI in our sector. 

Below are links to some of the AI tools Joe talked about:

• https://www.briskteaching.com/
• https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=5/23.94/-102.58
• https://www.screencastify.com/
• https://www.loom.com/
• https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/mind_maps/105279339696
• https://asuo-images.streamlit.app/
• https://mizou.com/
• https://www.magicschool.ai/
• https://schoolai.com/
• https://www.eduaide.ai/
• https://www.perplexity.ai/
• whisper ai
• https://turboscribe.ai/
• https://web.diffit.me/
• https://audiopen.ai/
• https://padlet.help/l/en/article/w9yl61m88g-magic-padlet

In addition, Joe recently shared a list of Accessibility and AI tools for language learning and a cross-curricular summary of accessibility and AI tools.

TTR: Critical Citizenship with Eugenia Carrión

On today's Teachers Talk Radio show, I was joined by Eugenia Carrion from Argentina for a conversation centring around critical citizenship. You can listen to the show at this link or on Youtube (below).

Decentring ELT - Teachers Talk Radio

 Decentring English Language Teaching (ELT) was the topic of todays' Teachers Talk Radio show. We also talked about AI and action research in ELT. You can listen back to the conversation I had with Leonardo Lima from Brazil on Youtube (below) or at this link. 

Collaborative projects: TTR with Belen Albarracin

On today's Teachers Talk Radio show, I spoke to teacher Belen Albarracin from Argentina about the exciting collaborative projects she does with her learners, including TED-ED Talks and interactive choose-your-own-adventure stories.