If you have been following me for any length of time, you'll know that I love using visuals for learning and especially infographics. I think images and infographics are a great tool for communicating information and concepts in a simple way and so ...

"ThanAverage is a small unscientific investigation into how we value and compare ourselves to each other." This is an interesting interactive website that asks a series of questions that require the user to rate how they compare themselves to what t...

As part of the research I've been doing recently, I've been looking at a few different ways of getting AI to create video. One place I hadn't expected to find this was in Google's NotebookLM. This is a video I created using the ...

If you have been following me for a while you'll know that I'm a fan of AtlasObscura - I think it has some really wonderful articles and images about curious things around the world that are great to share with students to stimulate their curiosity....

I'd like to continue my series of activities for developing students' multimodal literacies. These build on work I've done earlier with design a syllabus and based on multimodal literacies and sub-skills: https://view.genially.com/680...

I recently had the honour of being a plenary presenter at the IATEFL Poland conference. I guess I don't get out very much these days, but what really struck me was the degree of polarisation that AI seems to be causing among teachers. Most inno...

Adrift https://adrift.site/ is one of those wonderful sites I find every now and then that was created by someone who had a wonderful idea, rather than someone who wanted to make some money! It reminds me a bit of the early days of the internet...

Encouraging students to work on their speaking and pronunciation can be difficult in the crowded classroom, but the speaking activities from our Conversation & Listening Lessons are ideal for encouraging students to practice their speaking at ho...