Friday, December 29, 2023

EdTech Cool Tools - Honorable Mentions

Throughout the month of December I shared my "Cool Tools 2023" series where we explored some of the year's best tools for teaching and learning.

This year we focused on artificial intelligence tools and how they can be used in schools.

You can access all of the cool tools in the series as they come out at bit.ly/cool-tools-23 and in this Google Slideshow.

With all the amazing AI tools available, it just isn't possible to fit them all in a list of twenty-four. And it seems like there are new tools coming out every day! So as an extra bonus to the "Cool Tools 2023" series I am listing other AI tools that I wasn't able to cover as Honorable Mentions.

Some of these are favorites that I have used, while others are newer to me and I am still needing to explore them more. And of course this list is still far from complete.

Please let me know what is still missing from the list. I will come back to this post periodically to add more tools that I come across or that get recommended to me.


👍 Honorable Mentions

In alphabetical order...
  • AudioPen - Resource link - AI tool to convert voice recordings into organized text that is easy to read and share.
  • Chat for Schools - Resource link - A safe, guided platform to use ChatGPT in the classroom through teacher controls, custom tutors, built-in curriculum, and more.
  • CoGrader - Resource link - AI tool to get First-Pass Feedback on your students' assignments instantaneously, detect ChatGPT usage and see class data analytics.
  • Fomative - Resource link - Use AI to generate questions for assessments and hints for the questions.
  • Freepik AI image generator - Resource link - Text-to-image generator with 3 free images per day.
  • Gamma - Resource link - AI tool to help generate document, slideshows, webpages, and more.
  • Ideogram - Resource link - Text-to-image generator that is able to incorporate words in the images.
  • Microsoft Designer - Resource link - AI design tools to make pictures, remove backgrounds, expand images, erase objects, and much more.
  • Odd One Out - Resource link - Interactive game to see if you can spot AI-generated images.
  • Perplexity - Resource link - AI chat tool to help answer questions, explore topics, and more.
  • Pi - Resource link - Large Language Model AI chat tool from Inflection AI.
  • Say What You See - Resource link - Learn the art of AI prompting with this interactive game where you write a prompt to try to recreate an image as close as possible.
  • Schemely - Resource link - AI tool to create lesson plans with slides, videos, and quizzes.

Be sure to check out the other blog posts in the "Cool Tools 2023" series at bit.ly/cool-tools-23 and in the Google Slideshow.


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