PADLET

What Is Padlet?

Padlet is a website that provides users with digital canvas. The user can post text, images and videos from a mobile device or a desktop. One of the great appeals of Padlet for classroom use is the fact that many people can post to the same board at the same time, making it very suitable for collaborative work and creation of projects.

Here is the padlet that I created. Hope you like it! 😏

https://padlet.com/elemeren/9sg3o9vqs3gh

AUGMENTED REALITY

What Is Augmented Reality (AR)?

Augmented reality presents us with so many opportunities for language teaching and learning. If you are not familiar with this concept, perhaps the best example is Pokémon Go!

Augmented reality is defined as "a variation of Virtual Environments (VE), which allows users to see the real world, with virtual objects superimposed upon or composited with the real world.




Below, you can see the examples;

FLIPGRID

What Is Flipgrid?

Flipgrid is a social learning platform that allows educators to ask a question, then the students respond in a video. Students are then able to respond to one another, creating a "web" of discussion.

Flipgrid offers a worthy, flexible venue for teachers and students to communicate. Students can learn to articulate ideas with well-planned responses and consider alternate viewpoints as they listen to their peers' responses. Flipgrid can be great way to gather student responses delivered at their own pace without kids feeling "on the spot" in the classroom. Also, some students may be anxious about being on camera; it's challenging enough to answer a question when called on in class, but for some, formulating a video answer may be more agonizing than it's worth.

VIRTUAL REALITY

What Is Virtual Reality (VR)?

Virtual reality has entered the world of education through the big door creating new resources to teach and learn. Students absorb information much better if they enter a 3D environment that makes everything more fun, exciting and enjoyable. Virtual reality allows you to explore, travel without leaving the classroom, visit what you want to learn without moving, have greater professional orientation and much more.

EDMODO

What Is Edmodo?

Edmodo is an educational website that takes the ideas of social network and refines them and makes it appropriate for a classroom. Using Edmodo, students and teachers can reach out to one another and connect by sharing ideas, problems and helpful tips. 

A teacher can assign and grade work on Edmodo; students can get help from the entire class on Edmodo.It is a safe environment. There is no bullying or inappropriate content, because the teacher can see everything that is posted on Edmodo. Quick formative assesments and conservation-starter polls give students and teachers immediate feedback and can help teachers to improve instruction

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WORDLE

What Is Wordle?

Wordle is a fun tool that creates a word cloud from text users input. Users can paste text from a document or type it directly into Wordle. Though a simple tool, Wordle offers an engaging alternative to the traditional way of analyzing a text or set of words.

Is It Good For Learning?

Students who learn better with visual or spatial representations may have better success identfying key themes. Students could even create word clouds to analyze their own writing, making it an empowering tool for self-assessment and reflection.

Here is my word cloud!😋

PIXTON

What Is Pixton?

Pixton is a comic creation site where creators can both make and share their comic strips. It's simple to navigate. After students create an avatar, they follow the step-by-step comic creator to begin their graphic stories. Visual icons help students add artwork, backgrounds and text bubbles to comics. Teachers can use Pixton as an assesment tool for students to show their understanding and comprehesion.

STORYBIRD

What Is Storybird?

Storybird is an online social platform for storytelling. Students act as authors, pairing their words with site-curated, licensed art. Students can compose text, but they can't upload their own art; they must use Storybird's curated collection in their picture book and illustrated poems.

Storybird offers a community for storytelling and a well-designed interface for matching words to compelling pictures. It can inspire student writing. Since students and teachers can also read published stories and comment on them, it offers good opportunities to practice digital citizenship.

How to use Storybird?

HOT POTATOES

What Is Hot Potatoes?

Hot Potatoes enables you to create interactive Web-based teaching exercises which can be delivered to any Internet-connected computer equipped with a browser.

There are six modules you can prepare interactive research with Hot Potatoes;

✓JCloze * creates gap-fill exercises

✓JQuiz * creates question-based quizzes

✓JCross * creates crossword puzzles

✓JMatch * creates matching or ordering exercises

✓JMix * creates jumbled-exercises

✓The Masher * creating unit logic

Here's a video about how to use Hot Potatoes:

VOKI

What Is Voki?

Voki is a free Web 2.0 tool that allows students to create talking characters. The site features educational resources, including teacher-submitted lesson plans.

Users can customize characters resemble living people, animals and cartoons. Record voices via microphone or telephone, or upload them in an audio file. Completed characters can be shared via social media, email and embed code. With free Voki accounts, users can create unlimited characters.

Here is my Voki avatar, she is a teacher, I hope you enjoy! 😊

http://tinyurl.com/vgouxgp

PINTEREST

Never used Pinterest before? Here's what you need to know:

Pinterest is social media platform that is used to share ideas, hacks, designs, and inspiration of all types. From capsule wardrobes to DIY home hacks, Pinterest is a virtual smorgasbord of images.

Pinterest For Educators

Pinterest is not just a source of inspiration and daydreams, it is also a valuable tool for educators worldwide. Use Pinterest to organise, network, share, and teach. With this handy social platform, you'll be able to create a more efficient classroom and find resources that engage students beyond the textbook. And what's so amazing about Pinterest is that it's absolutely free! So, if you haven't already hopped on board, now's the time!

QUIZLET

What Is Quizlet?

Quizlet is a free website to help students learn vocabulary terms. Students can study flashcards, play games and take practice tests. Quizlet is basic framework that students fill with their own information. Students can remix existing sets or create their own. For each study set, Quizlet offers up to nine study activities, including matching and fill-in-the-blank games and timed quizzes. Adaptive learning technology helps students study effectively by offering more difficult questions as mastery increases.

BLACKBOARD

What Is Blackboard?

Blackboard is a teaching management system that allows educators to present lecture materials electronically, communicates with students, and creates lesson activities in electronic environment.

Blackboard is a tool that allows faculty to add resources for students to access online.

➠If you want more information about Blackboard, you can watch this video:

SEESAW

What Is Seesaw?

Seesaw: The Learning Journal is a robust digital portfolio and learning system where teachers can create meaningful multmedia experiences for students. Using Google, student emails, or a QR code, teachers assign tasks that engage students with a variety of work in the form videos, photos, text, images, and files. Teachers follow up by approving posts, offering feedback, and, if desired, making items accessible. It is beneficial in building reflective learners who took the time to think through their work and monitor their own progress.

Finally, students are eager to use Seesaw and share their work products with one another as well as comment or "like" each others work. This tool helps educators become more reflective and mindful of their planning and pacing.

POWTOON

What Is PowToon?

PowToon is web-based animation software that allows you to quickly and easily create animated presentations with your students by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user created voice-overs. PowToon can be used by educators to create animated presentations of content for students to view. Educators can also use PowToon as a form of assesment by asking students to create their own animations.


There is a video for you about how to use PowToon. If you are interested, it will be helpful for you!

MOODLE

What Is Moodle?

Moodle is a free online learning management system that enables educators to create their own private website filled with dynamic courses that extend learning anytime, anywhere. With Moodle, you can easily create online courses. You can upload your content, add gradable assignments and quizzes, and then add collaborative activities to make online learning effective and fun.



There is a video for beginners. You can watch it. ☺

SOCRATIVE

What Is Socrative?

Socrative is a cloud-based student response system. It allows teachers to create simple quizzes that students can take quickly on laptops- or, more often, via classroom tablet computers or their smartphones. That makes these devices a more robust replacement for special purpose "clickers".

Quizzes can be true/false, multiple choice, graded short answer or allow open-ended short responses. Activities can either be teacher-paced (for use during a classroom discussion) or student-paced (for use as a more traditional class). Socrative quizzes can be shared with other teachers.

KAHOOT

What Is Kahoot?

Kahoot!, a free student-response tool for all platforms, allows teachers to run game-like multiple-choice answer quizzes. Teachers can either create their own quizzes or find, use , and/or remix public quizzes. Questions, along with answer choices, are projected onto a classroom screen while students submit responses using an internet-connected device (computer, tablet or phone). Questions and polls can contain images and videoto help further appeal to all learners.

Is It Good For Learning?

With Kahoot!, teachers and students can create multiple-choice quizzes as well as polls and surveys. You can also incorporate questions that don't award points so that you can gather opinion data, or include a question with multiple correct answers without skewing point totals. Quiz questions and polls stimulate quick instructional decisions as well as whole-class discussion.