Hot Off the Press: AI Literacy Training Cards, Anthropomorphism, iSpring, and learning never stops I created this course as part of the iSpring Challenge 2025, and honestly, the timing couldn’t have been better. I had the idea, iSpring provided the…
Read-alouds in turns, anyone? Any fans of RAT – reading aloud in turns from a text – here? It’s probably not the most popular technique these days, to say the least. I reckon it might rank second among the most…
Confession time. I like to add a personal touch to my presentations by sneaking in an Easter egg – or a couple – hidden surprises. I know they may go unnoticed (and in most cases, they do), but I love…
24 January 2025, 16:00 (UK time): Personalisation 2.0, or AI for Effective Learning Experiences Fancy joining me for a session on how AI can help personalise language learning? I’m happy to invite you to the masterclass I’ll be delivering this…
Making Authentic Input More Accessible: Elaborated Input Cheers to 2025 and the thrill of new experiments! All experiments begin with good ideas. I’ve never been a huge fan of adapted versions. Authentic language? Gone. Nuance? Bye-bye. That said, I can…
Designing multimodal activities for language students Busy? Same here. I was working on a new set of multimodal tasks for assessment, but, as usually happens, I came up with something extra – a new idea to add to my favourite…
Remember Kodak’s slogan, ‘You Press the Button, We Do the Rest’? Kodak’s goal was to let amateurs take pictures without worrying about the technicalities. The process was simple: customers simply took their pictures, sent their cameras to the Kodak factory,…
Creative thinking has become a buzzword – much has been said about it, with many strategies and frameworks shared, some applicable, others suited only for a parallel universe. So, I’ll keep the intro short: this post shares a twist on…
I’m excited to invite YOU, the reader of this blog, to join the masterclass I’ll be delivering next Friday, September 27, on AI and multimodal storytelling for GTEFL by Gallery Teachers – an exclusive FREE invitation. Storytelling and Story-Based Activities,…
or How to Quickly Make Your Materials Interactive Technically, I should start with a catchy introduction. But I doubt I can top an AI platform’s pitch for their AI-powered feedback tool (spotted their ad on Facebook yesterday): ‘I showed this…
