QUIZLET / 08

HELLO EVERYONE, I hope you are fine and healthy!!
 Another application which enhances the learning process is QUIZLET.
This application can be seen as basically digital flashcards but it serves more activities than the paper flashcards :)

In terms of language learning, this application especially helps you memorize new words and practice these new words' pronunciation.
In my personal experience, i used this app for my linguistics lecture to practice the terms related the morphology and language. And it really works actually :) While on road or waiting another class, you can easily practice and make your knowledge permanent.

With the photo of my account, you can see that users can create folders and sets that you add titles and keep your studies organized.

In addition to your own sets and folders, you can access the other users' sets and folders that you are interested in their topics.

Also you're able to join classes and access all the sets of that class.

You can see the class that i joined via my UDEMY Swedish Lessons. After joining a class, in addition to the class's user, you can share related sets with your classmates.

If we look the inside of the sets, the app enables to practice the sets in several ways which is valuable especially for the language learning.

As you see in this picture, when you choose a set to study, there are several modes.

You can :

• read all the flashcards ,
• learn them by choosing the right translation of the sentence,
• write the sentences in target language.
• spell what you hear (this mode help improving the correct pronunciation and listening skill)
• and finally take a test which is included written, matching, multiple choice and T/F questions.

If you want to check a sample, here is on of my linguistics sets :

linguistics 1 : what is the language

See you next Application Review !! :)

SEESAW / 07

Hello again after a break of mid-term. I come back with different useful applications. One of them is SEESAW.
After using Edmodo as a student for 2 years, Seesaw is more interactive application for language learning. It can be used with both the students and parents. 

To learn the features of the application , i have signed in as a teacher. Here are the features :
one of the features is that as a teacher you can collect all your class  and control all the assignments in this application.

As a teacher, you can post a students work, assign a activity or you can send announcement for both students and parents.

In terms of assigning an activity, this application provides many opportunities for enhancing your activity.

According to titles, you can easily create your activity.

And you can enhance your activity with these (photo,drawing,video,note or link) choices.

After creating your activity, you can share it with your students but also can share with the other users of the application. Moreover you can access the other users' activities which can be inspiration for you.

You can see the sections : "my library" and "community".

As the rest of the process, after you assign an activity, you can easily follow the actions which mean that you can check who did and who did not accomplish the activity.

As an example, i created a really easy activity and here is the activity :

PADLET / 06

HELLO EVERYONE FROM THE QUARANTINE !! 

Today's writing is about another application that enhances the learning : PADLET.

WHAT IS "PADLET" ?

It is kind of a post-it page which means that you can share a post on the page. You can create a padlet and add inside of it posts. These posts can be related to one topic. In this padlet, you can add pictures, audios, or related links. 

It is an application to be used by both students and teachers. As a teacher, you can create a page and want your students to fill this page in terms of your topic. and as a student, you can easily make a contribution and can learn the related topic interactively.

my padlet is here and i tried to create a kind of exercise which can be useful for pre-lesson. In that sense, learners will make preparation for lesson. Also, after lesson they can correct their contributions or can add more things.

My padlet is about rooms and furnitures. I created a home page and added posts which refer to rooms.

EDMODO / 05

HELLO EVERYONE!!
Today's topic is EDMODO which is a very useful educational tool for both teacher and learner. Especially nowadays we are fighting with COVID-19,EDMODO is one of the significant websites in terms of education.
Let's begin to know more about it :

EDMODO is a website and also an application that connects students and teacher and creates a place for communication between them.
Teachers can create their class and share the code of the lesson with their students.In that way, students join and follow almost everything about that lesson.

• Teacher can share assignmets in there and also can evaluate them via EDMODO.In that way, students do not have print out their assignment (Save the Trees!! :)
  
• Teacher can share all the related lesson materials in EDMODO,which is a really helpful for students to access them easily.(For example,some of my teachers use EDMODO and share the materials every week and before or after reading them,ı can do my revisions easily)
  
• While doing these assignment and reading these materails,asking questions to your teacher is also available.You can leave a comment on the posts or you can send messages to your teacher directly.

Except the connection of class, EDMODO provides using it as an agenda.It means that you can add other upcoming assignments or projects so you can get notifications.In that sense, you can save all the important deadlines of your lessons in EDMODO and get notification for them. In short, EDMODO makes your school life organized :)

                           

ANIMATION / 04

HEI EVERYONE !!!
I hope that you all are fine and at home! 
Today's writing is about creating animation about language teaching/learning.
Creating materials that students are interested in is substantially important for the teacher. In that sense, teacher can choose one of the educational tools : Animation.
Using animation increase the quality of the class presentation and helps learners make meaning about a topic. And also teacher can  draws attention to the lesson easily because new generation loves watching videos :)
There are some websites that you can create animation :

• powtoon
• animaker
•  toontastic
• animatron

I tried to make animation on the powtoon but unfortunately i could not open the page although it has really cool templates.

I also viewed toontastic. I think that this app is useful to give learners an assignment because it literally allows users to create their own cartoon which is perfect for learners at young ages.

Then i tried animaker and finally produced an animation :)

However, the page you create animation is just a little complicated.

After a few fails, i succeeded to make a very simple animation about shapes.

here is the link of it :

https://app.animaker.com/animo/IbXxGrmnDBZrc3ZA/

VIDCAST / 03

HELLO AGAIN !!!
Today's World, children love watching videos about gaming , cartoons and so on.In that sense, adding interactive and educational videos to the classroom procedure we can make the learning process more effective and less boring. 

WHAT IS THE VIDCAST ?
It is a video clip designed to be viewed in a portable device. It is also called "vcast", "vodcast" and "videocast".

Speaking of videos that can be used in the classroom, VOKI is a great Web 2.0 tool that teacher can use.
WHAT IS THE VOKI ?
VOKI is an educational tool that users can create their own talking character. 
Because of wide range of characters, you can even select Shakespeare ,Obama or a cartoon character.

By using Voki, teachers can produce really good classroom materials about their content and also can give students an assignment to create their own voki.

To give an example, i created a Voki about Korea. This is the link of that :

https://www.voki.com/site/pickup?scid=16236585&chsm=b61fd556b7e5cdbd7dddbd0e9830ff3c

While i was doing it, i thought ıt could be a good material for the subject of the "nations and nationalities". By presenting these kinds of vidcasts in the classroom, students can learn the subject effectively.

PODCAST / 02

HELLO EVERYONE !!!

Today we can learn anything we want to know instantly.Moreover, we can learn in any way we want.
So today i am going to talk about one way of learning something :
PODCAST 

What is the PODCAST ?
The name of the podcast comes from the combination of the "iPOD" and "broadcast".
Podcast is basically a series of digital audio files that can be downloaded to personal device for easy listening. They are like radio programs but podcasts can be listened anytime and anywhere.

PODCAST AND EDUCATION:
Podcast is an useful web 2.0 tool for education. Teacher can record a podcast to provide extra materials about the lessons and in this way,students can reach these materials and listen them anytime and anywhere.Also students can make their own podcast to record what they learn at school. By making their own podcast, they can develop their ability to speak effectively and clearly,and improve their vocabulary.

MY PODCAST : 
After meeting the concept of "podcast", i tried one. It is about "first language acquisition" which ELT students are familiar with.

My Podcast Link :
https://anchor.fm/zsumer/episodes/the-stages-of-the-first-language-acquisition-ecbonu/a-a1pvrp