ChatGPT prompts

What you get from ChatGPT is only as good as the quality of your prompt.

The always-interesting English language educator Doris Molero has been sharing the prompts she has been trying out on Facebok, such as...

A way to use ChatGPT as your tutor to learn and practice phrasal verbs or any other grammar point you need to learn about. Prompt "Teach me the phrasal verbs, including a quiz at the end, but don’t give me the answers and then tell me if | got the answer right when | respond."

Getting the prompts right is important if you want to achieve good results from this tool. Fortunately, there are some valuable resources available for ChatGPT prompts in general:

• Awesome ChatGPT Prompts

How to make the best use of ChatGPT in Education has resulted in a number of useful general guides and prompt guides, such as:

• ChatGPT Through an Education Lens
• A Teacher's Prompt Guide to ChatGPT
• ChatGPT Edu Mega Prompts

For language learning and teaching specifically:

• Chat Prompts for Language Learner

Meanwhile, Japan-based Educator, Paul Raine held a very interesting discussion with a number of people, entitled GPT and ELT: Productive, Disruptive, or Destructive?, which you can watch below. 

Lots of other educators have been holding discussions about the ramifications of ChatGPT and Higher Education, and providing advice such as 7 ways teachers can harnass the power of AI for learning. 

There are so many ways to use this tool, I feel that despite the efforts of educators, we are still only scraping the surface and coming upwith new ideas every day. 

The Electronic Village Online 2007

Today is the official start of TESOL's Electronic Village Online (EVO2007) , which is an annual event of free workshops run by volunteers and open to educators from all over the globe. This is my third time as a session moderator - I keep coming back for more!



Proceedings kicked off grandly with a World Bridges webcast, which can be heard at http://webheadsinaction.org/



There are a total of active 13 sessions this year, in what promises to be a fun and lively 6 weeks (The sessions run until February 25th).



Personally, I'm involved in three of the sessions. The Digital Gaming & Language Learning one will be looking at all aspects of gaming and language learning, and includes an optional module focusing on Second Life, which promises to be very active, and we have started a wiki, where most of our collaborative efforts will end up. I'll be moderating this with Nicholas Noakes, who is based in Hong Kong, and Rita Zeinstejer, in Argentina.



I'm also co-moderating the Open Webpublishing EVO session, but not until week 4. Before then, Bee (Barbara Dieu) and Patricia Glogowski will be leading the way, concentrating on blogs, wikis and other non-audio Web 2.0 tools for teachers. The last half of the session will concentrate on podcasting, and I'll be co-moderating that with Nicholas Noakes and Scott Lockman.



Finally, I'm also going to be helping out with the Webcast Academy EVO, which will look at live, interactive webcasting. this is something I'm involved with at EFL Bridges, one of the World Bridges community sites. Jeff Lebow is at the helm of this session, with Vance Stevens, Lee Baber, and other Webcast Academy graduates and internees helping out. The Webheads in Action site will be one of the homes of this EVO, and there is also a Webcast Academy Yahoo Group too.

These are just a few of the sessions that are going on - EVO is always a great meeting of minds and full of people who are very giving and willing to learn from each other - make the most of the opportunity if you think you have time. I'm sure you won't regret it.