Nik Peachey

APRIL 27, 2007

Flipz TV is a really useful piece of free software for creating entertaining audio-visual materials. The software enables you to record your own audio monologues and lip-sync them with a choice of animated talking heads. It then turns them into small Flash files which can be run in a web browser. These can be put on the Internet, run form your computer desktop, or the Flash files can even be delivered to mobile phones.

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Nik Peachey

APRIL 23, 2007

D- film is a really useful website that has been around for a few years now. The site makes it very easy to create short animated movies with colourful characters and cartoon style dialogue in bubbles. (Be careful though, some of the characters may be unsuitable for younger learners less mature students.) The site is really easy to use and you just click your way through various screens selecting backgrounds, characters, scenarios, soundtrack and credits.

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Nik Peachey

APRIL 13, 2007

This is a site I spotted a while back and was really impressed by. UNICEF are creating lots of rich media to get their message across and the whole of the site is worth exploring if you are looking for materials to help you tackle some more controversial issues. What's on the site? This is one page I found really useful. On this page you can find 10 really useful short video cartoons which depict the various rights of children.

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Nik Peachey

APRIL 11, 2007

Archive. 3 Tools for Exploiting the Wifi During Presentations 3D Computer Games with Young Learners: Spore Creating Social Polls and Questionnaires Using Urtak A Tick List of 21st Century Digital Skills for Teachers Cropping YouTube Videos to Create Activities 10 Teacher Development Task for Web 2.0 Tools Creating an Online Journal for CPD Revising Short Texts and Syntax on IWB Using Wise Quotes with EFL ESL Students 20 WebCam Activities for EFL ESL Students Brainstorm and Debate Collaboratively

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Generative AI holds tremendous promise for all stakeholders in higher education. But guardrails are needed. Strong governance that empower instructors are at the core of a responsible approach to using generative AI in academia.

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Nik Peachey

APRIL 19, 2007

I’ ve just seen that the BBC has released a lot of its own internal staff training courses and made them available free online at: [link] What's on the site? I’ ve had a look through the courses and they really are good, especially if you want to work with audio for podcasts or video for projects. Some of them are very short, so even if you only have 10 – 15 mins to spare you can still get some development from them.

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Nik Peachey

APRIL 12, 2007

I've just been having a look at TeacherTube , the new video sharing website designed specifically for teachers. I think this is a potentially really useful resource. It enables teachers to upload and share videos, either publicly, with anyone who visits the site or privately in 'groups'. The groups feature enables you to limit who can see your videos and could be really useful if you only wanted to share specific videos with your students.

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