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 What Is Plickers? Plickers is a fun question/test solving tool. You can use Plickers at any educational level. Although Plickers is one of the Web 2.0 tools, it is a great tool that does not require a separate technological tool for each student. One phone/tablet and projector/smartboard are sufficient to use Plickers in your classroom. For students, one answer sheet with QR codes is sufficient. For What Purpose Can We Use Plickers? To check students' prior knowledge, For end-of-course assessment, For subject evaluation, For unit or end-of-theme evaluation, For survey studies, To vote, Apart from these, you can use it for any purpose up to your creativity. For example; I have seen somewhere that it is used to take attendance of bussed students in the bus. How to Use Plickers The order of using Plickers is briefly as follows: Sign up for Plickers. Create your class. Prepare the questions. Print out the QR codes. Apply in class.  

What is Storybird? Storybird is a free book creation site. Although its interface is in English, it is very easy to use and is a useful educational tool especially for language teachers such as Turkish, English and German. Students can read created books; They can write their own books, stories and poems. How to use? To read any book published on the Storybird site, it is sufficient to click on the "READ" category at the top when you first enter the site and choose one of the books that appear. If there is a projector or smart board in the classroom, you can easily find a book on the site and read it as a class. However, an account is required to create a book. One of the nice things about it is that the teacher can open an account, create a class, and invite students with the class code. Even parents can be included if desired. And here you can see the storybook slides we prepared through Storybird site as part of the Valiant Project.    

What is Second Life? Second Life is a social platform created not to be a game, but to create a 3D virtual world. Users create and transfer everything in that world to the platform. You can think of it like a 3D version of the internet. Just like there are websites on the internet, there are islands in second life, you can pay and buy an island or you can visit thousands of different categories of islands, if you pay and set up your own island, users somehow get informed about you and write the address (url) of the island. open and sell real items, sell in-game clothes etc. This is where the money issue comes into play. Trade is done with money called Linden dollars, and you can convert it to real dollars or bitcoins, so you can work with someone in overtime, just like in real life, in return you earn Linden and turn it into real money because the owner of the workplace you work for also earns Linden from the visitors. Here's my avatar that I made on Second Life app:

 What is Kahoot? What is Kahoot is a website that makes the repetition of the topics covered in the lessons more enjoyable thanks to the joint use of components such as mobile phones, computers, tablets and smart boards. The aim here is to learn in a fun way and to reinforce the course content. You can find content on many courses and topics on the site, or you can also prepare and use a re-exam (quiz) if you want. To summarize, it is an application for interactive online quizzes. Another alternative to Kahoot is Quizizz. In order to use the Kahoot application, we need to create an account. To create a new membership , let's click on the sign up link on the homepage of the Kahoot website . Since we need an account to create Kahoots, let's choose the link as a teacher. After completing your quizzes, your students just need to open any internet browser on their device, connect to kahoot.it and enter the quiz code and names. Now let's see how to create a quiz using Kahoot. Ste

 What is Classdojo? How to use? Clasdojo is a classroom interaction application. It is an application that allows families to follow the activities their children do at school and the subjects they learn. During the day, students' photos, videos, activities, etc. It is a very useful application that allows teachers to share everything with their families. It also allows families and teachers to communicate. Thanks to Classdojo, teachers, students and parents can work as a team so that every minute at school is more productive. Manage your classroom with ClassDojo! Manage Your Tutors with Classdojo! With classdojo, a classroom management and classroom interaction application, you can follow the students you give private lessons and stay in touch with their families. You can check all the work you do with your students, follow the development of the child and ensure that the family is informed about the whole process. It is an extremely simple to use and highly interactive applicatio

What is Flipgrid? Flipgrid app is an app that makes giving homework, measuring readiness level and getting feedback more efficient and enjoyable. With this application, you can ask your students to shoot a video explaining what they know about the subject before they study a subject, or as an evaluation after they have studied a subject, and you can help the whole class learn from each other through the videos they shoot. How to use? First of all, you should download the application to your smart device from the App Store if you are an IOS user, and from Google Play if you are an Android user. When you log in to the application, you will see the "Enter a Flipcode" and "Educator Dashboard" options on the screen that will appear. At this stage, you should select the Educator Dashboard option. You can use your Google or Microsoft account when logging in. After connecting to the application, you will see the "Add New Grid" tab on the screen. Click this tab to