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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

What is Duolingo?  While learning a new language and getting help from books or dictionaries in the past, these tools have been replaced by digital platforms as we entered the age of technology. It is one of the language teaching platforms that helps you discover a new language on Duolingo. So, what's the main reason we've been hearing about Duolingo a lot lately? Students who will receive undergraduate or graduate education abroad must submit a language certificate with international validity in order to receive final acceptance. In order for Covid-19 to enter our lives and to experience curfews in many countries or to avoid the risk of disease, it is necessary to stay away from closed areas. For these reasons, students who will receive higher education abroad could not easily reach the exams demanded by universities. For this reason, major universities abroad have introduced the Duolingo English exam to make it easier for their students. Learning languages with Duolingo is fu

What Is Jamboard? 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. Google Jamboard is an educational application owned by Google. It is very useful to collaborate with Jamboard, especially on the whiteboard. Jamboard is a very useful application for teachers who have difficulty in drawing shapes and writing symbols with the mouse in numerical lessons such as Mathematics and Science. After logging into Google Jamboard via your internet browser or mobile application, we log in with our Google account. If you do not have an account, you can register with your e-mail from the "Create Account" option. Then, when we log in, if we have created a Jam and worked before, our work appears directly. If you want to create a work, we can create a new area by pressing the + icon at the bottom right. Here we can take advantage of pencil, eraser, stickers, pictures, doc

 What is Canva? Canva is a platform that was founded in 2012 in Australia. Canva is a platform where members can prepare presentations, create visual content, and create designs for social media posts. Designers in Canva can add the photos they want to the templates, edit them and bring their designs to life quickly. It is very easy to design from Canva, which has many features such as Banner, Slider, Social media designs. Even people without any design knowledge can design easily and quickly using Canva. While designing Canva, you can click on the text to untie the text group in the template and create your design by moving it to separate areas. However, by deleting this section, you can also select the text groups you like from the text section of Canva and create a design by editing these texts. When you click on the text section in the design, sections such as font, font, font color will appear at the top of Canva. Through these sections, you can edit your texts as you wish.

 Networking is the exchange of information and ideas among people with a common profession or special interest, usually in an informal social setting. Networking often begins with a single point of common ground. Professionals use networking to expand their circles of acquaintances, find out about job opportunities in their fields, and increase their awareness of news and trends in their fields or the greater world. Here's 5 blog links that belong to my friends working on the same fields as me more or less: https://materialdesingingandsharmaine.blogspot.com/ https://materialdesignwithozge.blogspot.com/ https://speakforeignlang.blogspot.com/ https://eltprograms.blogspot.com/ https://aysublog99.blogspot.com/

  The world has become almost completely digital. Many people no longer carry tools such as paper, pens, notebooks. When this is the case, it is necessary to record the work to be done and the responsibilities in a digital environment. At this point, the Trello application becomes the biggest helper of the users. Trello is an ideal app not only for individual work, but also for teamwork. Thanks to Trello, it is possible to organize your weekly, monthly or even annual plans. Instead of meeting with your teammates one by one, you can open common boards and run your business together. Acting as a kind of digital agenda, Trello also facilitates remote working conditions. We've answered the questions of what Trello is, how to use it, and some tips you need to know for a more efficient user experience. What is Trello? Trello, which was first introduced to users in 2011, is a planning and business organization program. You can organize your projects and other responsibilities by creating

 What Is Edpuzzle And How Does It Work? Edpuzzle is one of the virtual classroom applications that can be used in flipped classroom applications. Edpuzzle application is a useful and free virtual classroom application where you can edit videos using any video on the internet, narrate with your own voice, add voice notes, add questions for your students and review the answers given by the students to the questions added to the videos, and check whether the student watches the video you have created. You can upload videos on your computer or mobile device into the system, or you can create your lectures by adding videos from sources such as "Youtube", "Ted", "Khan Academy", "Learn Zillion" provided to you in the system. Now let's see step by step how the application is used. Thanks to Edpuzzle, you can directly access video content such as Youtube, Khan Academy, National Geographic, TED Talks through the application and use them in your lessons

What Is Pear Deck and What is it used for? Pear Deck is a Google Slides add-on designed to help teachers create engaging slide show-style content for the classroom and for remote learning. Since this is Google-integrated, it allows teachers to create or edit presentations right there from within their own Google account. The best place to start would be to use the Pear Deck add-on to convert existing PowerPoint or Google Slides presentations to Pear Deck lessons. It's some work up front, but the payoff in student engagement is worth it. Add in a Pear Deck question slide or template to review a concept from a previous lesson, gather student questions or feedback about last night's homework, or introduce today's lesson with a question or problem. During a lesson, pepper in multiple-choice, true/false, and thumbs-up/-down questions, and quickly gauge whether or not you need to reteach a concept. These check-ins can also be used as discussion starters when talking about daily r

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Learning is defined as a process that brings together personal and environmental experiences and influences for acquiring, enriching or modifying one’s knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, behaviour and world views. Learning theories develop hypotheses that describe how this process takes place. The scientific study of learning started in earnest at the dawn of the 20th century. The major concepts and theories of learning include behaviourist theories, cognitive psychology, constructivism, social constructivism, experiential learning, multiple intelligence, and situated learning theory and community of practice. Here is the mindmap about learning theories that I've made: PDF link: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AnE_c0qzDtxwjGaroGqs0bL0O1Rl?e=dUoWIz  

  What is a podcast? Podcast has been very popular abroad, perhaps for the last 15-20 years, and both the program and the number of listeners are increasing. Contrary to popular belief, Turkey has not met with podcasts. It is even possible to see the first examples in the early 2000s. However, it has become popular in the last few years. We can actually define the most basic definition of podcast as "Audio blogging". Because each podcast episode is actually an audio content that deals with a different topic. Podcast, on the other hand, is a combination of the words "live broadcast" (broadcast) and pod. In fact, it is a name that comes from broadcasting live recorded broadcasts whenever and wherever they want. However, if we look at the release period, we can see that it is also fully connected with the iPod. Even though it was originally designed to be listened to from iPods, the technology has now been reached to be listened to from any device. What is Anchor? Anch

  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. With Edmodo, you can create online classes and maintain student control remotely. Below you can find detailed questions about using Edmodo, such as what Edmodo is and how to use it. It is a web 2.0 tool used to create a virtual classroom. It is an alternative platform that you can use to increase teacher, student and parent interaction. You can use it to do studies to increase learning outside of the classroom. Thanks to Edmodo, it will be very easy to communicate with your students outside of the classroom and send them work. Also, let me briefly talk about what you can do with this tool; -Creating classes and subgroups. -Don't do polls. -File and folder sharing. -Being able to do quizzes. -Submitting homework and assi

WHAT IS SEESAW? Seesaw is a digital portfolio creation tool. This tool, which can run on Windows, IOS and Android platforms, has an interface that is very easy for students to use. Thus, students can enrich their electronic portfolios by adding photos, videos, drawings, texts and links. Electronic portfolios that support students' learning can be accessed by both students, teachers and parents thanks to the seesaw tool. This is one of the strongest aspects of the seesaw tool because teachers give immediate feedback on student work, while parents get the chance to follow students' work done at school. It has three platform types: Student platform Students log in to the classroom by using the QR code given to them or by their e-mail account opened by their teacher. For this, first "I am a student" is selected and then the class is entered. Students entering the class can take photos and videos for their portfolios, save their drawings, as well as add their work and writ

LET'S TALK ABOUT PADLET ! Padlet can be a great classroom tool for small groups of students participating in collaborative research. To help organize the board, students can post driving questions about their topic, and as they find answers during the research process, they can post them under each driving question. Padlet works as an app on phones or can be accessed on the Padlet website. It is easy to set up an account and there is a function that integrates google classroom accounts with Padlet, eliminating the need for even more login details. To add students to the boards, teachers can send out a unique QR code or a link to the board. Adding elements to the Padlet board is also super simple with a drag and drop function, "+" icon in the lower right corner, the option to paste from your clipboard, and more. Padlet takes the idea of the notice board and makes it digital, so it's enhanced. This creates a space for teachers and students in education to share but in a