MOODLE

Moodle can be invaluable in structuring and sharing your course materials with learners, and also in monitoring and assessing progress.

There’s an assumption from learners (and their parents) that learning will be available online - your Moodle site can be accessed via PC, tablet or other mobile device via a web-browser or there’s a free mobile app for your phone which can give you structured access to the learning that you need at any time.

      Benefits for the educators;

• With Moodle’s rich resource toolkit, files and links to websites can be shared with learners easily. Pages of learning content – combining text, images and embedded video - can also be quickly created within a course.
• Group students into year or class groups to automatically provide access to the appropriate learning materials. You can even control when specific course content becomes available to learners.
• Edit 24/7 via a browser to update and add to course content for learners to access immediately.
• Use a variety of engaging question types in a Quiz to assess the learning. Moodle can mark these and give immediate detailed feedback to the learners
• Learners can submit work and receive feedback and grades from the teacher. Teachers can also mark offline and can also incorporate their mark scheme to promote a consistent approach to marking. Teachers can also construct a comment bank to help supplement personalized feedback with pre-defined statements.
• Moodle’s messaging system allows learners and teachers to communicate easily. Teachers can also communicate with groups of learners via course forums either to provide answers to learners’ questions or to just get involved in discussions.
• Moodle’s stores each learner’s scores from any graded activities. Snapshot reports can be viewed at any time to see how each learner is progressing through the course materials. There is also a full audit trail to monitor when and how regularly your learners are accessing resources.

      Benefits for the learners

• it’s a great place for your learners, whatever their age, to become confident in using the web within a school-controlled environment.
• with a variety of resource and activity types, learning on Moodle can be fun! Moodle supports a range of media to present or link to learning materials, support the learners and to assess their learning.
• Using the course forums, learners can discuss topics, share ideas and even feedback on each other’s work. The chat module in Moodle allows a scheduled online messaging interaction – ideal for guest speakers or “live” discussion accessed from different locations at the same time.
• Learners can customise their own homepage within the site to tailor information and links to their individual needs.
• the Quiz activity can give immediate feedback to the learners related to their answers so learners can regularly test themselves building their knowledge and confidence throughout their learning journey.
• Learning resources are available to the learners whenever they want them. There’s even a Mobile App to make access even easier via smartphone or mobile device!
• Moodle courses provide a personal space for learners to reflect on their learning journey which could include recording feedback and/or setting targets for the future. Moodle’s Badges allow learners to be digitally rewarded for their achievements throughout their learning journey. Learners can stretch and challenge themselves to earn all the badges available to them in a course.

SOCRATIVE

Meet Socrative by mastery connect. Your tool for fun and effective formative assessment. Socrative enables you to engage and assess students on any device and operating system during class. All the activities visualize student answers in real-time and provide detailed reports for afterward. Directly from your teacher dashboard, you can launch all types of assessments: start a quiz, do a quick question or polling activity, play a fun space race game or doing out of the door exit ticket.

 Quick questions are perfect for no-prep activities. As students respond, the teacher can see in real-time what the students are thinking, have a discussion of the result or ask more quick questions. It is your choice. You can create your own assessments or share assessments with your colleagues and other Socrative users around the world. If you like you can tag it with a common core or state standard. As students take the quiz you'll see their graded responses populate your live results table. Each column shows how the whole class is performing on that question. You can see which questions you need to go over with the class or decide how to group students for review based on their results. Run your quiz is an exciting space race to create a fun assessment game that students can play in groups or individually. Students love friendly competition and you'll still receive the graded report at the end. With Socrative Pro you can set a countdown timer or upload your own race icon. You can manage multiple live activities simultaneously in ten different rooms create a room for each period divide the class into smaller groups or even have a homework loop. In addition, you can add rosters and have up to 150 students in each room. With Socrative visualizing students, understanding has never been easier.

AUGMENTED REALİTY

Many of us know how augmented reality (AR) works thanks to mobile games like Pokémon Go and social media apps like Snapchat. But the magic of AR doesn’t end there. Augmented reality is successfully used in other fields, including education.







Augmented reality in education will soon affect the conventional learning process. AR has the potential to change the location and timing of studying, to introduce new and additional ways and methods. Capabilities of Augmented Reality technology may make classes more engaging and information more apprehendable.

Educators know that the learning process should be all about creativity and interaction. While teachers do not necessarily need to recruit all students into science, their goal is to get them interested in a subject. That's where AR could come in handy.

Using augmented reality in the classroom can turn an ordinary class into an engaging experience. AR technology provides virtual examples and adds gaming elements to support textbook materials. As a result, classes become more interactive. AR helps students better remember the information they’ve just learned.

Augmented reality animated content in classroom lessons could catch students' attention in our dynamic day and age, as well as motivate them to study. Adding extra data, e.g. a short bio of a person, fun facts, historical data about sites or events, visual 3D models, would give students a wider understanding of topics.

While doing homework, students may scan certain elements of a book and receive text, audio or video tips from teachers. Or they may find useful information about the course, a teacher or other students which could lead to better communication. 

PIXTON

Pixton is a website that allows teachers and students to construct their own comic strips. There are a variety of comic strip layouts, numerous character and background choices, and a ton of creative options  This is a great learner-centered tool that allows students to construct their own knowledge and display it in a way that is meaningful to them by allowing them to create comics representing their concepts and ideas.

Pixton is accessible through any web browser and can be accessed on phones, tablets, and computers. Pixton offers a free app for smartphone or tablet use. The website does not specify if there is a preferred browser to use.

For teachers, there are a ton of resources. You are able to create your own assignments or borrow from pre-existing ones. There are a variety of layouts to suit your instructional needs including timelines, mind maps, and storyboards. Pixton also allows for a lot of creativity. You can upload your own images for the background, you also have direct access to creative commons images.

Students can make comic strips digitally rather than by hand. Teachers can create a standard comic with blank text and have the students come up with the narration and comments to summarize a particular event. Students can create their own comics with specified characters or events to demonstrate their understanding of a certain event. Students can create their own comics with their own characters, settings, and text to construct their own knowledge about a concept, event, character, or anything else you can think of.  Students can customize backgrounds with their own images and change the color of skin, hair, and eyes of their characters.  The digital aspect of this tool makes it easier for less artistically inclined students to be encouraged and inspired.

VIRTUAL REALITY

Introducing a whole new concept in educational technology: a 'standalone' Virtual Reality headset complete with a unique student-friendly interface, gesture controls, embedded educational resources, and simple-to-use teacher controls. ClassVR is a groundbreaking new technology designed to help raise engagement and increase knowledge retention for students of all ages.

Speaking skills – and in turn writing skills – show a marked improvement in students who have had the opportunity to explore a virtual environment. The immersive, sensory nature of VR improves the quality of students’ language; the immediacy of the experience is particularly beneficial for those students who struggle to think of what to write.

Creating a context for learning is crucial for deepening understanding. Learning about the phases of the moon from a textbook works just fine for some students – but the added contextual information they can access when they are placed on the surface of the moon, looking back at Earth, is invaluable.

Engaging and immersive personal experience simply cannot be matched in terms of information retention. The ability to re-imagine the VR experience in which you learned a new concept is incredibly powerful and is of particular benefit to students who struggle to remain focussed in a traditional classroom environment.

VR and AR open up exciting learning opportunities for students with specific educational needs. Many children with autism find the sensory immersion of a 360 video (complete with audio through headphones) a comforting and safe way to learn new concepts – all while knowing they can easily remove themselves from the situation if necessary. Schools are excited to use a simple portal to quickly send their own content to student headsets. Imagine the power of recording a quick immersive video of your field trip destination ahead of time, giving students with autism or sensory integration challenges the chance to get accustomed to an unfamiliar environment?


Engagement is the key to excellent teaching and truly deep learning. The creativity of teachers is unmatched – just think of all those hours spent preparing launch events, role play areas, and interactive displays – so just think of what can be achieved with VR and AR at your fingertips! Let ClassVR breathe new life into key topics, with technology that inspires and motivates.

POWTOON

Powtoon is a world-leading visual communication platform that enables anyone — from novice to pro — to create professional-looking, engaging videos and presentations in 20 minutes or less. Powtoon Connect makes it even easier to make videos by letting you add mobile media directly to the Powtoon Studio, and view and share your completed videos with your audience — straight from your phone.
More than 20 million people, including 96% of Fortune 500 companies, use Powtoon to increase employee engagement, customer delight, and business results with explainer videos, promotional videos, social ads, internal communications, training materials, and more.

PowToon has the potential to be a powerful animated presentation tool. Whether teacher- or student-created presentations are the plan, the slide-based format allows presenters some control over how they present their information. Turn writing instruction on its head by teaching students to create expository or persuasive videos.Liven up your own instruction and grab students' attention by creating animations on an unlimited number of topics -- perhaps including some fun stickers, backgrounds, and borders to keep viewers engaged.
There are real opportunities to create problem-based learning assignments and passion projects, and to teach design thinking concepts by having students research issues

With Powtoon you can;

* Upload images and videos directly from your phone to the Powtoon Studio

* Record a voiceover on your phone and upload it to the Powtoon Studio

* Play your Powtoon and share it with other users.

                                    

SEESAW

Seesaw empowers students of any age to create, reflect, collaborate and share. It allows for family members to use the Seesaw app to keep up to date with their child’s learning, and easily communicate between school and home.

Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that inspires your students to do their best work and saves you time. Seesaw used in 200,000 classrooms. Seesaw's creative tools encourage student engagement. Students express themselves, reflect on their and create a portfolio they are proud to show others.

With Seesaw rather than using worksheets for activities like science labeling, you can create real-life examples and students can label their very own photos! It’s far more engaging and connects real-life situations to their learning experiences.

Seesaw helps you see and hear what each student knows so you can better understand their progress. You can give more differentiated support through comments and feedback.

VOKI

Voki is a great website that allows you to create speaking avatars. Voki has also expanded their brand to make the learning experience, even more, engaging with Voki Classroom, Voki Presenter, and Voki Teach. While these options are amazing in their own right, the free version of Voki can be utilized in many fun ways to help engage your students.

With Voki you can make each character your own! You can customize the body, background, clothing, and accessories of your Voki. The possibilities are endless!
Give your Voki a voice! Once you’ve created your Voki, you can make it speak with your own spoken voice!
To create a talking Voki:
1. Select a character from the Voki Library
2. Select the record option and speak into your microphone
3. Export, share and/or present your talking character!


Educational Benefits:
- Increased student retention, engagement, and comprehension
- Great for developing student speaking skills & abilities
- A great way for students to develop confidence in public speaking and presenting
- Powerful student and teacher tool for students with disabilities
- An incredible tool for foreign language learning (over 25 languages supported)
- Great for teacher lessons, presentations, assessments and more
- A creative way to foster student introductions and bios
- Convenient tool for stay at home educators and homeschool parents

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I created this talking character on Voki. If you want to watch my Voki character, click here!

PINTEREST

There are a lot of great technology tools out there for teachers that can make it easier to connect with other educators, get ideas for classroom activities, and find inspiration.

Pinterest is a social media platform which people use to search, save and learn different things through visual images. It can be anything from designs in fashions, wedding decor, events, architecture and furniture, recipes, tips to good health, or education.

                        

Check out some of these great ideas on how teachers can use Pinterest.

• Get inspiration for decorating your classroom.
• Organize your ideas.
• Get ideas for an inspired bulletin board.
• Follow interesting boards.
• Get fun ideas for new projects.
• Learn how to get crafty.
• Swap lesson plans.
• Locate amazing images for your lessons. 
• Use pinning as part of a lesson.
• Make group work visual. 
• Have students photo journal on Pinterest. 
• Get ideas on how to make learning more hands-on. 
• Find great books to use in the classroom.
• Collaborate with other teachers and educators. 
• Share what you’re doing in the classroom.
• Look for new and innovative teaching methods.
• Find amazing teaching blogs to read.
• Stay on top of trends. 

EDMODO

Edmodo is an application that focuses on communicating with students, parents and other teachers. You can create a class community, assign homework to your students and stay in touch with them, and inform their parents. The assignments you give to the students are stored regularly. You can give direct feedback to students. The application is easily accessible from the phone, tablet, and computer. You can also explore other lessons outside the school. We used this application last year for our Writing class and Introduction to Education class. It was a very useful app. I recommend this app.

Way to use Edmodo;

• Utilize the Edmodo quiz builder or poll feature to assess students’ learning during or after a unit of study.
• Place students in small groups and have them post their work to their group for peer review and feedback.
• Enable students to tap into individualism and build self-esteem by sharing their writing projects with each other in Edmodo.
• Encourage students to practice their language skills, as well as spelling and grammar, through conversations in Edmodo. 
• Use Edmodo to communicate with your students when you’re out of the classroom, or provide updates to students who are absent from class.
• Inspire real-time discussions and extend learning beyond the classroom walls by hosting a backchannel in Edmodo.
• Integrate the Edmodo mobile app into the classroom curriculum to make learning interactive anytime, anywhere.
• Use Edmodo Badges to help motivate students to push their learning and increase their practice time on new topics. Badges let Students show off their accomplishments. 
• Facilitate project-based learning in your classroom by leveraging Edmodo’s small-group feature.
• Deliver differentiated content in your classroom through the use of small groups and shared folders.
• Join an Edmodo Community to connect with other educators around the globe and share resources, exchange ideas or get advice.
• If you’re part of a school club or sports team, create an Edmodo group to coordinate meets, practices, and games, as well as post results.

KAHOOT!

Hello everyone. I am here with a new application for you. Kahoot! is a game-based learning and trivia platform. Instead of using a worksheet at the end of a lesson for assessment, consider using Kahoot! It’s a fun and effective way to measure which concepts your students understand fully — and which might need reinforcement.  With this app, you can create quizzes for your students. This app makes learning both easy and fun. You can prepare a quiz at any time. You can find a quiz on any topic. You can give your students homework through this application. Students may be more willing to do homework and work with this application. I recommend you to try the application. I recorded a short video of Kahoot.

QUIZLET

Hello everyone. I will introduce an application for you. The application name is Quizlet. Quizlet is a free course study application. You can use this app from your phone or computer. It is the easiest way to study what you have learned. You can create your own cards and work sets, or you can work on another set. It helps you memorize new words, learn pronunciations and improve yourself. With the Learn mode, you can prepare for your exams. You can work with write, pair, and test modes. Last year we used the Quizlet app for our Reading class. It helped me to memorize new words. 

I recorded a video of Quizlet. I recommend you try the Quizlet app. I hope you enjoy the application.

VODCAST

Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog. I have a video about language teaching methods for you. I hope it will help you. 

PODCAST

Hi everyone! If you can not speak English fluently you should listen to this podcast. We give you some suggestions. We hope it will work :)

SECOND LIFE

Second life is a 3D virtual world where users can create connect and chat with others. Last week our teacher showed us Second Life and how he used it for education. So we create an avatar. I used to play sims so I thought it would be easier for me. I found some aspects of the game complicated and difficult. I had difficulties with teleporting and controlling the camera. I hope in the following days I can be better at controlling and I learn how to teleport through destinations. So this is my avatar. For the further, keep on following!