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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 a...

      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...

           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 chan...

         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,...

      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 ...

      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...

      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 ...

            Hello, all! I hope everything is going okay with you. Today I'm going to mention about a platform which is called EDpuzzle.      To begin with, Edpuzzle is a program that allows you to create interactive videos by adding open-ended, multiple choice questions to your videos from Youtube or similar platforms.       Imagine that you are a teacher and you will introduce a new topic to your students. To present it in a more interactive and effective way, you may go for this platform, add questions to your video, edit it however you wish and enhance the content of learning more.        It is very easy to make use of Edpuzzle. After logging into Edpuzzle site, you select a video you desire on Youtube. Then, you add questions to the minutes of this video that you have determined and save them. After editing the video, you can share the link with your students so that they can do the exercises y...

       Hi, everyone! I hope everything is going great with all of you!      Today, I'll be covering one of the most distinguished application which has multi-purpose area of usages. It is called "Canva"     It is an online designing platform where you can create membership with just a quick click and create designs with the same ease.         Moreover, nearly all the features are for free! In addition, various advantages such as free templates that change from product to product, features such as drag and drop, adding logos, and using free icons on the site make it an invaluable platform.    One of the most crucial features of Canva is that it has a completely Turkish interface. In this way, anyone can easily start designing by following the instructions given on the application.       To start using Canva, the first thing you need to do is creating a subscription by the site of Canva.com. Yo...

          Hello, my all precious readers! Hope y'all doing great.       Today I'm here to introduce you a platform which is called "Pear Deck".   We can basically define it as the  web platform where you can conduct productive lessons with your students during the online education period by preparing online lessons. Through preparing interactive slides with Pear Deck, lessons can be more enjoyable both for teacher and students. Besides, it allows students to mark on the slide while teacher presenting the course which takes place of course under the control of the instructor. In this way, virtual teaching can turn from a boring lesson in which only the teacher controls to a more vivid and effective way. You have the chance of signing up with both your Google and Microsoft account. I chose to log in with my Google account. Then to set up my accounti, I was supposed to select my account type which included the options of te...

      Hello, there! Hope everything is going fine with you. Today, I'm going to mention about an video maker application to you.     It is called Biteable.  This is an application that makes it easy to create stylish and professional videos using Templates and a library of images as well as animations.      Besides, it is a video-making solution designed to help marketers, agencies, and entrepreneurs create animated videos basically for advertisements, cartoons, commercials, presentations, and more using customizable templates.      With Biteable, you can create professional videos and animations online just in a few minutes.     After clicking Bitable.com, log in to the site with Google or Facebook account for free use. Choose a style from numerous edited styles.     Make edits by adding photos, text, audio to create your own content. A few minutes after creating your content, your animation video will...

        Hello, all! I hope all is as it should be for all of you. I'm as pleased as punch to be here with you. Today, I'll be introducing an application to you. Hope y'all enjoy it (';       As you may guess from the logo, it is called Busuu. It is a platform for fundamentally learning as well as developing a foreign language. In comparison with other applications, rather than focusing only on English, it does include various languages such as Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and so on.. In that sense, you have a great opportunity to make use of it. When you first start using the application, it asks for your target langauge and your level which follows the purpose of your choice for this language. Among them, there are options such as for education, work, travel, entertainment or culture. Afterwads, the app questions what level you would like to reach, on which days of the week you will take the courses, ...

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  Edmodo is a virtual classroom application where teachers and students come together in an online environment, share materials, and do online exercises. With the Edmodo application, students and teachers, as well as parents, can closely follow their classroom work. Teachers can add their students in this online platform, lecture, design activities, share materials, give assignments and put a due date on them, make announcements, hold online exams and so many other things. It offers educators opportunities to collaborate with teachers, students, and parents in education. To be able to create an account on Edmodo, you should firstly choose the account type which includes the options of "Teacher, Student, and Family". Then, you receive a verification code to activate your account. Since I wanted to create an online class, I did sign up as a teacher. I was required to fill the blanks to complete my process. These were about my class name, the ingredients ...

       StoryBird is an application where students of all ages can create digital stories and develop their skills such as writing, creative thinking, imagination, problem understanding and problem solving. As an initial step, you are supposed to choose your account type either individually or as an educator. After signing up, you get a verification code to activate your account. Then, after logging in, you encounter with the main page which includes headings of ' You, Challenge, Read, and Write' . Each of them has various subtitles. The "Write" category constitutes of Picture book , Longform story, Comics, Flash fictions, and Poetry. I decided to create my own picture book that appealled to my sense. I didn't have difficulty in creating a storybook since everything was clear with the instructions. To be honest, I didn't expect to enjoy that much, it did really meet my expectations from all sides. Without further ado, you can reach my pic...

  Hello, everybody! Today I would like to share my certificate on ' Virtual reality for SMEs' with you. I'm really interested in virtual reality and I did even attend a virtual reality exhibition last week at the Gazhane Museum in Istanbul. It was one of the most fascinating activities that I have ever experienced. Therefore, since I also did wonder how VR is applied in business life, I decided to take an online course and got this certificate (': You can verify it with the QR code given! Here is also the link of my certificate ; f ile:///C:/Users/gulsu/Downloads/KOB%C4%B0%E2%80%99ler_%C4%B0%C3%A7in_Sanal_Ger%C3%A7eklik-Sertifika_244908.pdf