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Second life: An Amazing App Worth Trying!

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      Hello,everybody! Hope y'all doing great. I feel excellent to be here with you as always!   I know that you are all curious about what I'm going to talk about for today. Stay calm, and be ready beacuse I am going to mention a great platform which is called Second Life.      As its name suggests, Second Life is basically a game that allows its users to experience a virtual second world. I can say that there is no limitation for its users in regard to experiencing a virtual life through this platform. There are unlimited entertainment sources that enables you to create your own designs such as clothes, houses, vehicles, goods and so on.    Besides, you can create your own avatar through choosing one and then making some regulations on it. Here you can have a look at mine (:     Moreover, the best aspect of the application is that you can create a virtual classroom, make your students participate in the classroom through various avatars, and conduct your lesson via presentati

Telecollaboration: I've Experienced Virtual Exchange!

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      Hi, everybody! I hope everything is going okay with you! I'm all steamed up over sharing one of my unique experiences with you!       Before starting,, I would like talk a bit about the notion lays behind the telecollaboration. I can say that it is an approach that aims to simplify the process of language learners. In other words, it fundamentally tries to connect these language learners to collaborate within a computer-mediated scope to enable them to improve their language skills.     In this context, in our Material Design in English Teaching course, we were given such a great chance! Everyone was divided into groups, and each group comprised of 6 students. We were matched with 4 Spanish students who study in Complutence University.     At the first sight, when I took their e-mail for getting started this telecollaboration process, I was full of the joys of the spring and quickly provided a response to them.     We had 4 Zoom sessions, all of which was more effective and e

VIRTUAL REALITY: A Completely Virtual World!

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           Hello, my all gracious readers! I'm again pretty happy to be here with you!As you may guess from the picture on the left side, today I'm going to mention Virtual Reality.  We can say that Virtual Reality refers to technologies that use VR headsets to produce sounds, images and other sensations that replicate a real environment or create an imaginary world. Therefore, sincerely, we can state that VR enables users to be immersed in a completely virtual world created by a computer.      The artificial environment is created in such a way that users are convinced to be out of the real world and they enjoy the interesting side of the virtual world. Besides, VR has numerous usage of areas such as entertainment, education, advertising, promotions, industry, history, art, and so on.       Since I was interested in Virtual Reality, I did take an online course relevant to VR and get a certificate. Moreover, I had the chance to experience it with its gorgeous glasses in a museu

Sutori: Prepare Impressive Presentations!

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         Hello, all! I hope everything is going great with you!Today, I'm going to mention a platform which is called Sutori.          We can basically say that Sutori is a teaching and presentation tool for the classroom. Of course, it is not limited to that. It enables you to create learning resources for your students, it encourages them to be creative while writing, it has various language learning activites and template assignments, it paves the way for creating any sort of planning as a weekly plan, it lets students work both as a group or individually through the opportunities of both synchorously and asynchorously.       Moreover, Sutori enables you to reach videos, text, images, and all sorts of other media and resources into one place. The best aspect of the platform is that it takes the needs of each student into consideration, and present different learning style accordingly. These include watching, listening, reading, interacting and so on.      It is simple to sign i

Trello: A multi-dimensional Platform!

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      Hello, everyone! I hope y'all doing great! Today, I'm going to mention a multi-purpose platform which is called Trello.     To begin with, we can say that Trello is a program which  fundamentally used for planning and organizing work. To describe it in the best way, we can say that it acts as a digital organizer.     In other words, by creating boards and cards on Trello, you can organize your projects and other responsibilities to ensure that you are constantly under the control of this program.You can write your responsibilities down, save it and follow them on a digital platform in a practical way.           There are dozens of usage areas of Trello such as planning your day, creating reading and watching lists, tracking your buying and selling transactions, planning your home renovation, organizing your hobbies, managing your budgets and so on.     You can easily download the Trello application to your computers with Windows and macOS operating systems and immediately

Flipgrid : Interacting with Videos !

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      Hello, my all precious readers! I'm again full of the joys of the spring to be right here with you! Today I'm going to mention about a platform which is called "Flipgrid."    FlipGrid is basically a tool designed for teachers to interact with their students and help them express themselves using audio and video input.      Therefore, you can think of FlipGrid as a message board where teachers will ask questions using grids and students will answer them via a video of their own, all in a tiled format.     In that sense, teachers can assign different grids for different classes they teach, creating newer grids to accommodate the topics they will teach their students. Students can create their own responses to the assigned topic.      Besides, responses can be uploaded using the Flipgrid app or website, and students have the option to record a video in real time or upload a pre-recorded video.    Before moving on to creating a Flipgrid viode, you need to register a

Jamboard : A Practical Online Board!

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      Hi, there! Hope you are all well. I'm here again to introduce you a platform which is called Jamboard.      To get started, Google Jamboard is a tool that creates an interactive whiteboard on the Internet, allowing you to create collaborative work with people who connect remotely with this board.      It is very practical to collaborate with Jamboard, especially on the whiteboard.     Imagine that you are a teacher and you conduct an online course. After teaching your topic from all dimensions, you want to make a revise. Taking this into account, you turn to utilize this online board, and you start writing down what you have taught. Then, you let your students note down what they have just learned. They each start writing from the various aspects of the topic which creates both an interactive and effective atmosphere just the same as classroom.      It is very simple to use Jamboard. First of all, you must have a Google account. Then, you can create your first interactive boa