FLIPGRID: EMPOWER EVERY VOICE

Flipgrid empowers social learning in PreK to PhD classrooms around the world. Use video the way your students do. With Flipgrid you can make video assignment for every student. And give individual feedback to them. I think this feature can be very useful for shy students who are on the fence about giving presentations in front of the whole class and many more.

Here is a tutorial on how to use Flipgrid 
I found very useful: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJOoloQ7k5Q

STORYBIRD

Become a better writer with Storybird's creativity tools. Online courses, challenges, and reader feedback will help you improve your writing.

Storybird a great app for the students that loves to read, write and create.You can sign-up for a 7 day free trial. It lets you make visual
stories in seconds. It it fun as it is easy to make. Student will definity take an interest if Storybird will be used in classes. 

Here is a snipet of the storybook I made just in seconds:

Here is a excerpt from their site to show how it works:

1. Boost your writing skills: Storybird’s writing curriculum offers 300+ lessons, quizzes, and writing prompts created by experienced educators and expert authors.

2. Explore your creativity: Choose from multiple writing formats, from comics to picture books to poetry to longform. Start with a challenge for ready-made inspiration.

3. Global Community: 9 million writers in more than 100 countries around the world use Storybird to tell their stories. Read the best writers and get inspired.

4. Get inspired: Here at Storybird we have over 1,000 outstanding artists from all over the world contributing more than 10,000 breathtaking illustrations that you can use for inspiration or incorporate into your story to help make your vision a reality.

5. Publish your work: Ready to share your words with the world? Submit your stories to get expert feedback from teachers, professional editors, and authors.

HOT POTATOES

Hot Potatoes is a tool developed for the creation of web questionnaires of all sorts, from crossword puzzles to exercises to fill in spaces in texts, using various clues or multiple-choice tests.

Basically hot potatoes allows you to make interactive assessments for students. But, I didn't like that you couldn't make the quizzes online and you also had to download it. As a plus the file was not large and the download was pretty quick. Nevertheless my computer wouldn't allow me to operate it due to virus danger.

PADLET: A BLANK WALL TO POST

Hello eveyone! Today, I am going to talk about padlet. Padlet is an application that you can create an online bulletin board you can use to display information for any topic. 

When you go to padlet's website and sign-up you are given 2 options; basic and pro. After you select your membership, you can start to create your dashboard. There are various options for you to choose for your dashboard. You can add links, images, texts ad files.








Here is the dashboard I created on the go as an example:

PIXTON: EVERYONE CAN MAKE COMICS!

The world's most popular and easy to use comic and storyboard creator.

Once you go to the website, pixton gives you 3 options: for educators, for students, and for bussneses. I choose the educators option. Then like most sites, you have to sign-up. I sign-in with my gmail pretty easly. The next page has a introductory video and claims in 3 easy steps, you can make your own comic too. Even in the intro video students claim that, they would rather do comics than write essays and it is more fun to practice pixton in their lessons. Surely, pixton will grab their attention and find an outlet for them ton express their creativity.

Here you have many options for bacgrounds, characters, motions, words, faces, actions and effects.

Lastly, you can even customize your character to your will.

POWTOON

Make videos in minutes with Powtoon. Use our library of styles, characters, backgrounds and video, or upload your own! Free. Easy. Awesome.








In my experience, making a video on pawtoon was pretty easy and fun. I think giving assignments that students can do in pawtoon would encrease student participation.

Here is a example I made in just a few minutes:

PINTEREST: DISCOVER RECIPES, HOME IDEAS, STYLE INSPIRATION AND OTHER IDEAS TO TRY!

     

Description

Pinterest, Inc. is an American social media web and mobile application company. It operates a software system designed to enable saving and discovery of information on the World Wide Web using images and, on a smaller scale, GIFs and videos.

 

It borders pretty much any idea you might need from insparational quotes to funny memes to educational tools you can use in your lessons. Therefore, if you are having trouble coming up with interesting ideas, you can directly go to pinterest for activity ideas while planning your lessons.







Here is just one of those ideas:

VOKI

Hello everybody! Today I will tell you about Voki.

A character in Voki

Voki is described as an educational tool that allows users to create their very own talking character. The characters can be customized to look like historical figures, animals, cartoons and even yourself. You can adjust the background, dress them to your will and of course most importantly you can give them voices. It is easy as it is fun! As I was trying to access the website my computer crashed. So, I tried to access it with my smartphone. I thought I would struggle but as it turns out, it was much easier to sign-up and create a character directly with my phone.




Here is the shortcut of the experience I had;

AUGMENTED REALITY APP

IKEA PLACE

IKEA place allows you to chose from the various selection of products and place it right in you living room to see how you like it. Apperantly, all the IKEA products are avaible in this app. You scan the room, browse the furniture selection, select the one you want and all is left is to find a right place for it. I believe this is just a simple demanstration of this technology. Using this kind of technologhy can turn an ordinary class into an engaging and intractive experience. It definitly will be an experience student won't forget any time soon.





Here you can find a more detailed video on how the app works:

BLACKBOARD: A MOBILE FIRST APPROACH TO LEARNING

Harness the power of Blackboard anytime, anywhere. Fully engage in your digital learning experience on your favorite mobile device. Learn with no limits.

A no-cost online learning environment that you can set up to match your personal teaching style, curricula, and student needs.Blackboard Learn's digital learning environment to provide you with a powerful experience – for free. CourseSites is a shared environment which is used by hundreds of thousands of users all over the world.

MOODLE: FREE, ONLINE LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

World's most widly used open source learning platform

With moodle learning is now anytime, anywhere. Educators can create their own
private web site. Upload content, add gradable assignments and quizzes.They can easly create online courses that pocess various powerful and flexible tools. Moodle works in over 100 languages! Students can easly access their couses and check their progress and assagnments.

Here is the latest updates: https://
moodle.com/news/moodle-brings-
interactive-h5p-content-to-your
-mobile-devices/

They can also interact with their educators via mesages and notifications and get feedback, ask the questions that occupy their heads easily.

QUIZLET: LEARN WITH FLASHCARDS,GAMES & STUDY TOOLS

Studying for tests is hard enough; you shouldn't also need to figure out what to study!


Quizlet is a free website providing learning tools for students, including flashcards, study and game modes. It specially can be very useful for language students. Because, as we all know it language learning starts with your vocabulary. The more you enhance it, the better. Therefore, quizlet with it's quick and easy word flashcards should definitely be used in Language classrooms more.



Here is a link to a quizlet set I made for my 4th grade students: https://quizlet.com/_6h83ez?x=1jqt&i=20jz75

EDMODO

Hi everybody! Today, I will talk about edmodo and how it can be useful for teachers.

In edmodo, teachers create online classroom inviting students to join in. After students join the classroom using the common code given by the teacher, parents can track their childrens developments as well. Students can share their notes in a online platform where teachers can review them afar. This application most definitly makes reaching all the students much easier. As well as, making sure every student will be getting hard feedbacks.

KAHOOT: MAKE LEARNİNG AWSOME!

Kahoot, is a free game-based learning platform that makes learning fun, on any device and claims to be for all ages! You can create any quiz in seconds, play anywhere, anytime, alone or with friends.It was very easy to sign-up as a teacher. It didn't even take me 5 minutes! Once you sign-up the site gives you 3 options; one is for free and others come with a minimal charge. After you select the option that is suitable for you, you can create your quiz immeadiatly. You can also select points and duratians for every question. For each of the answers there is a geometric symbol and colour which surely will be very helpful for visual learners. Finally, the game-like quality kahoot pocesses, makes the students feel like they are indeed playing a game while learning.

Here is the link to a fun quiz I made about the tv show Friends as an example:
https://create.kahoot.it/share/ea1eb03c-2aaf-41be-b6c5-539b5167d293

SOCRATIVE: A FUN WAY TO TEST YOUR STUDENTS

Socrative is an app where you can make online quizzes for your students and have them take these quizzes in their smartphones or laptops. Better than that, they can also take real time quizzes in the classroooms.


This way you can get immediate feedback and see the students individual processes. It doesn't hurt that the formats are quite fun and colourful with many quick options like multiple choice, true/false, short answer that create a friendly competition. It is a fun activity that will definitely capture student attention in classrooms.


If you want to check it out, here is a link to a quiz I made:  https://b.socrative.com/teacher/#import-quiz/43867578

VODCAST

Hi everyone! This is my first vodcast and it's about learner styles; how everyone can have a different style and the main differences children and adults pocess in this regard. Hope you enjoy it!

Here it is:

PODCAST: MY FIRST ATTEMPT

https://soundcloud.com/asl-han-t-kle/modes-of-education

MY EXPERIENCE IN SECOND LIFE

Hello everyone!

In this post, I will talk about the experience I had playing the game Second Life. Firstly, this game was extreamly easy to download. I managed to sign up and download the game in under 5 minutes. After the download is complete, you can start playing immediatly. At first, you are given a generic character but you can easyly custimize or choose from an already exsisting list of characters. There are even categories like vampires or fantasy characters. I was really impressed by the visual effects. It was a full on virtual reality experience.

There are various locations you can travel and complete tasks. I was vastly suprised by the amount of worlds you can visit. Another detail to note is that, this is an online game. So, you can interact with other people from different cities and countries. In the end, it was a genuinely fun and cool experience.