Educational Blog

      -VR creates a simulated environment and provides you with its virtual environment through a headset and thus you feel like you exist in an environment which you are actually not in.It offers you its own reality by replacing the real environment and enables you to experience an entirely different reality.It has head-tracking technology, which means that you should turn your head to directon that you will look at.It can also be done through a controller.It takes its name from Jaron Lanier in 1987.The first VR called Sensorama was invented by Morton Heiling. -On the other side, AR doesn't put you into another reality, but carries another reality into yours and combines virtual and real environment.It enriches real scene with graphic, sound and visual through computer technology.It can be used through compatible smart devices such as mobile phone, tablet, laptop etc.For instance, do you want to go to Jurassic Park? Choose VR, but if you prefer to see a dinosaur in your house, the

  -Today, I am going to introduce something completely different from the web 2.0 tools which were introduced before in this blog.It's Second Life.I heard about it many years ago but didn't have an opportunity to look.Now, I realize that I missed a lot.Aside from the entertainment that I found there, it was also a process to discover for me.As soon as I created my own character, I tried to make interactions with other people all around the world.I felt like I was in a community that consists of people like me.It was a bit introductory to the real life and could have worked on me well if I had been still a kid but there are still a lot of kids to whom we can introduce Second Life, right?Activities on Second Life was another thing that I found impressive, because it was possible to take place in activities that I can't participate in real life.Now, I know that whenever I want to get away from the oppression of real life, I have another world to go.When I think that we can int

      -Flip is a tool based on making short videos.It can be used to make explanations over videos or make students deliver their homeworks through videos.Since students can share videos with each other and make comments on each other's videos, it lets them give each other feedback and increases the interaction among them.The tool can be highly useful in distance learning.It can be used through both computers and mobile devices.One of the most positive aspects of Flip is that students express and develop themselves in social aspect.It also lets users produce sound recording. -Teachers can create different virtual classes/groups for each class.It's going to be enough to share access code with students to take them into the classes.It's another alternative to create a group that is available to all users.Contents in a group can be duplicated to share the same content in another group.They can also be exported into the computer. -Students and teachers can add frame, filter, te

      -Voki is a web 2.0 tool which allows you to create your own avatar/character with different characteristic features from hair color to apparel and vocalize these.In other saying, you create yourself on virtual world.You can prefer to write a small text that Voki will vocalize or to add your own voice in a video.Voices are allowed to be up to 60 seconds in free version.If you are a paid subscriber, it allows you to share your video on other platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.If you are using the free version, you can use a link to share it.It can be used on internet and doesn't require to be downloaded.It doesn't require to create an account in order to produce a video, either.However, you can't save it without an account. -When it comes to education, Voki makes learning more engaging in terms of students.It can be used to present a course subject in which students may have difficulty in an entertaining way.In this way, it encourages students to learn.It can also b

     Soundcloud      -Soundcloud is a digital music platform on which people share diverse songs and create their own albums.It has a wide range of users from musicians to podcasters about diverse topics.It lets users to be interactive via sharings.After you create and personalize your own profile, you can start producing your own content or using what others share from popular music genres such as pop, rap to other types which have different themes like study, work-out, therapy.Along with sharing music, it's also a good platform for producing podcast. Podcast -Podcast, as a combination of the words "ipod" and "broadcast", are audio recordings that users produce according to different topics and interests.It is a means whose area of use is wide from entertainment to education and business.It lets people who have the same interests create their own communities and provide each other with flow of information.It is for not only obtaining information but also keepin

      -Animaker is a web 2.0 tool on which we can produce animated videos, which can be highly beneficial in education, because we can make what's going to be taught charming through animations.It helps us develop our designing skill and creativity.Learning can be made much more fun through these animations. Conveniences/Main Features -It allows us to make a video horizontal or vertical according to the platform that we will upload it on. -The biggest benefit is that it provides users with a lot of templates that can be used in animations without a necessity to design them from the very beginning.If you don't prefer to use a template, you can work on a blank page that you can customize. -Where animations are prepared is called "scene", which can take from 1 seconds to 10 seconds.You can add different characters and give each of them different expressions such as smiling or thoughtful. -You can add different shapes such as triangle or square on which you can write or a