Storybird: The Wolf and The Shepherds

Hi guys! Today's tool is Storybird. Storybird allows you to experience reading and creative writing for free. You can create your own flash fiction, poetry, picture book or share them with other users via Facebook, Twitter or E-mail. As a teachers, we can suggest books to our students for reading or ask them to create their own stories. 

I made a picture book for kids, if you want to look at, the link is below. 

https://storybird.com/picture-book/-the-wolf-and-the-shepherds

Augmented Reality: Animals

Augmented reality is the result of using technology to superimpose information such as sounds, images and text on the real world. Augmented reality brings virtual reality to mind, however; they are quite different from each other. Virtual reality means computer-generated environments for you to interact with, and be immersed in. Augmented reality (also known as AR), adds to the reality you would ordinarily see rather than replacing. There are many application that you can apply augmented reality but in my video, I used HP Reveal and for educational purpose. When using this application, firstly you have to focus the thing that you want whatever it is, then you add a picture, a text or something on it and save. Finally, you can see the last version of material automatically. It is very entertaining and helpful,especially for young learners. 

I and my friend also prepared a material for kindergarden or 1st grade students by adding some gifs and photos to animal pictures on the book. You can watch it if you like. 

Powtoon: Feelings&Emotions

Hello everyone! Today I want to share brief information about Powtoon. Powtoon is a tool that help you form your own animation by using speech baloons, figures, texts, characters, gifs and pictures and so on. You can also add music or your voice to your presentation. You can use this application as a free or premium account. In free version, there is a limitation about time, characters and other stuff, but it is still very useful for creating an impressive presentation for education. 

In the link below, I share my powtoon about feelings and emotions by using present continuous tense for 3rd grade students. I hope you enjoy. 

https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/cW8sp4kh7ED/feelingsemotions/?mode=movie#/

Seesaw: Designing Activities

Hi everyone! This post includes simple information about what is Seesaw. Seesaw is an online tool for designing many kind of activities which can be very creative. Teachers can support their written activities with audio-visual materials by means of Seesaw. Apart from designing part, this tool is very effective and useful in term of reviewing of the homework. 

Here is my example for Seesaw, you can follow the link below if you wonder. 

https://app.seesaw.me/#/activities/class/class.b8bb88ba-5cf1-41d2-8c95-2638c2a63c62

Padlet: Sociolinguistic Origins of Communicative Competence

Hello everybody! As you can see, this post is going to be about a Padlet, which is a digital board containing some pictures. videos, texts and calendar that you want to add. This is my first experience in this application, but I should say, it is easy to use and create a material. In Padlet, you can share your board with the people you choose or public, with everyone. Besides, it allows different types of document and other people also make editing the material you share, That's the why it is very useful, especially for teachers, I think.

My first padlet link is below if you want to look at. 

https://tr.padlet.com/rabiakorkaman/commcompetence

Vidcast: Humanoid Robots for Language Learning

Hello everybody! In this semester, I applied on the project carried on my university, Using Humanoid Robots for English Language Learning and I was accepted to participate in this process. Because this project is my experience and important for me, I want to upload this short vidcast. In time, when we proceed our project, I will share our progression. Thanks for watching.

Podcast: About A Podcast

Podcast: About A Podcast
Hi everyone! Welcome to my first podcast which is about itself. As you know, we live in world that new advancements in technology occur by means of technology, so we have to keep up with these. The new generation is keen on technologies and they want to see them in their every life. That’s why we have to update our educational material, and podcast is one of the technologies that can help for us.https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-evgi8-acc66b#.XKPLINH9vP4.blogger