AI Presentations
We were pleased to be invited to give the plenary session at the Oman Ministry of Education Dhakiliya Governorate's 2023 Symposium for English Teachers. It was a great day of sharing ideas with fellow teachers and seeing what our colleagues in K-12 education have been doing with AI in their classrooms.
For the 2023 International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating, supported by Majan University College.
Your AI Toolbox: Apps & more
Text generators
At this point, major AI chatbots all work with images, audio, documents, and web search. They are much more than text generators.
Google's Bard is aiming to compete with ChatGPT. It can access your Google Drive, Gmail, and the internet, etc to search for information
Claude is now open in more countries. It's "connected" to the internet so it's accessing things in real time
Free and paid versions. The paid has several features (plugins, image input, better results) that you may find worth the price. Also does voice and image generation.
Microsoft's OpenAI GPT inferface, with internet search, image generator
Materials generators
There are tools that will create leveled texts, questions (from texts, video, websites, or pdfs), whole lesson plans, activities, etc.
Canva uses AI to help you create materials, presentations, images, etc
Lessonplans.ai: Currently free trial and pay per year. It's well reviewed.
MagicSchool.ai creates and works with all kinds of tools for teachers
Diffit: Create leveled texts, questions, and vocab lists automatically - Great for differentiating materials
Twee: Automatically create materials with no prompting skills - create questions directly from YouTube, create texts with questions, etc.
Now with paid and free levels.
Education copilot (currently 30 day trial and pay per month, but it works well.
Eduaide.ai creates lesson plans, assessments, rubrics, projects, etc
Curipod.com: Create lesson plans plus interactive materials. Limited free usage.
Almanack.ai will help you create teaching materials as well as planning whole courses
Quizziz ai can turn webpages, pdfs, and docs into quizzes
Presentation generators
Create a slide deck, from design and layout to content including text and images.
Pitch: Create presentations
Magicslides.app: create presentations with a Google plugin
Slides.go: create presentations
Gamma.app: create presentations
Image generators
Create images of anything you can imagine. Support your materials with a creative touch. ChatGPT and Bing Chat do this natively (ChatGPT paid version).
OpenAI's image generator Dall-e 3 now powers Bing Image Creator and ChatGPT images
Bing Image Creator is now powered by Dall-e-3. So far, looks really good!
You currently need to sign up for the Beta for this one
Stable Diffustion is now only free for a trial period but gives excellent results
This works through a Discord server - see instructions at link
Canva uses AI to help you create materials, presentations, images, etc
Audio generators
Create realistic sounding speech from text, get live transcripts, and even generate that text for the audio. Making listening activities has never been so easy.
Audyo.ai generates text and audio, suitable for creating listening activities with multiple speakers
Text to voice by AI
Multiple voices, multiple languages, vary the delivery style
Otter.ai transcribe video or audio. Generate notes for your meetings. Online transcript. Transcribe recording to text. Accurate audio to text or video to text transcription
Speechify: AI powered text to speech, web browser based
Video generators
Video generation is in its infancy and many tools veer into the Uncanny Valley. The good ones are mostly paid, and can be expensive.
D-ID presentation video generator with avatars "freemium" model
Visla AI video generator and editing tool "freemium" model
HeyGen creates video presentations and also can do translation of video where the lips sync up with the target language
Speaking practice
There are a few free conversation practice apps out there, but most are either paid or not very good quality. In addition to specific speaking practice apps, the big chatbots can also work this way surprisingly well. ChatGPT has new speech capabilities available on free accounts.
TalkPal.ai: practice conversation with a partner. Free version is just chatting.
Other tools
There's an AI for that - AI aggregator. Find the tool you need.
ChatPDF lets you upload any pdf and explore it conversationally
Summarize.tech will summarize long videos
AgentGPT: Carry out multi-stage tasks using autonomous "agents" to carry out different steps
