Since the pandemic I've been delivering a lot of webinar training and conference presentations online. One of the nice thing about this (apart from being able to do it from home) is that when I'm delivering my session I can see myself and think abou...

This is an activity that went down well at a recent workshop I lead. It's simple activity that helps your students get used to creating AI generated images using a free AI image generator. There are a few different image generations sites you c...

Back in July 2025 I was part of a webinar that was organised by the British Council on the topic of 'How to partner with AI to engage with educational research' - You can watch the recording here: https://youtu.be/gaYRg3lvQYY?si=c__j-n...

Are you worried about the way that advertising is influencing our students? Our students are being targeted by advertising from an increasingly young age, especially through social media. You may well feel this is harmless and perhaps it is, but giv...

It feels to me like young people have been dealt a really bad hand these days, and what's worse they seem to get mocked for their reactions to it. Millennials particularly seem to end up being the butt of the joke, which seems really unfair as they'...

This is another great interactive site created by Neal Agarwal @nealagarwal. This is a sequence of variations on the classic trolley problem. This is the basic problem:"A runaway trolley bus is heading towards 5 people. They will be killed, but you ...

Giving our students the opportunity to work on their pronunciation autonomously can be very challenging, but if we can train them, it can have huge benefits for them. Pronunciation is probably one of the least taught skills and one that can have the...

This is a really nice website called The Wonders of Street View: https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/ It is based around some of the most interesting places on Google Street View. By clicking the link you are taken to a random place. You can the...

This is part of a series of AI prompts that can help to promote critical thinking. This one can help you design tasks for any text, based on Bloom's Taxonomy. You would be surprised how many times I've seen materials promoted as being inspired or mo...

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...