Educational Blog

            -Kahoot is a learning platform based on games and entertainment.It has a grading system, which puts students into a friendly competition.We can arrange four types of activities: quiz, discussion, survey and jumble, all of which can be customized with a title, description, image and even video.Creators of an activity form questions and 4 answer choices for every each question in a quiz.They also impose a time limitation.It is really a simple platform to use.After completing preparing your activity, you can share game pin that Kahoot will give you with your students. Conveniences 1-It's a free application and there is no limitation for devices.It's up to you to decide which device to connect with (tablet, mobile phone, computer). 2-Its range of use is large.You don't have to be a teacher to make use of Kahoot.You can organize discussions or surveys for your business or daily lifes.For instance, you may want to know what people think about a c...

           -It's a learning application through which you can prepare study sets with flashcards and do practices while studying on words, terminologies or any thing that requires memorisation.It adds to your vocabulary with regular studies to a great extent especially if you are trying to learn a foreign language.We can use our own study sets that we prepare or ones prepared by other users.It enables you to be fast and practical with some arrangements such as bringing words that you have difficulty with into the front lines.If you are a teacher, you can create your own class and invite your students so that they can make use of study sets that are prepared by their own teachers. -It presents different options such as flashcards, learn, spell, test, match, gravity to you.To explain in detail, students can learn a word, idiom, phrase etc. with visual pictures through flashcards, which increases memorability."Spell" makes them write what they hear, which help...

       -Canva is a platform that is used for mostly graphic design and that lets you produce/alter designs.It's preferred more by designers, students and content producers on social media.For instance, students make use of Canva to produce qualified presentations or for their assignments and content producers prefer Canva in order to customize their cover pages or posts on social media platforms such as Facebook or Instagram.Even if you don't have a computer, you can still use it through your mobile phones.On homepage, Canva demonstrates a lot of templates such as logo, infographic, poster, wall paper, presentation and allows us to create entirely new templates or alter ones that already exist.For example, if you want to prepare a cover page for your youtube channel, Canva will provide you with templates that have appropriate extents.You can choose any one you like and design according to your delight.There are both free and pro version of Canva and you can also do a...

      -Thinglink is a web 2.0 tool that enables us to add diverse interactions such as images, writing, videos, to a picture or an entire video that we create or upload to the website.For example, you can upload a video to Thinglink and add a few icons that can serve to give information or add our own voice.It helps us make learning more fun by presenting interactions in an entertaining way to our students.As a teacher, we may want to use it during our presentations and lessons. How to use? -Thinglink allows us to create various interactions from canvas, images, infographic to virtual tours that can be rotated 360 degrees.If you don't want to create a new content, you can upload a prepared one.Since it has a simple, noncomplex interface, I don't think you will have a difficulty at this stage.Later, you can make some adjustments on your content.For instance, you can change privacy settings, name your content, look at the statistics to learn how many people visit your conte...

      -ChatGPT is a chatbot developed by OpenAl which can answer your questions with explanatory sentences in any language you use.It has some other functions such as writing new codes or correcting mistakes in your codes, writing essays and solving your math problems.Even though it is an artifical intelligence, it answers your questions in a qualified manner as if you were asking someone who is expert in his field.So, how does ChatGPT do this? -Well, ChatGPT scans information found on internet and then compiles it to answer your questions and it does this in a really quick manner.There is a question to ask at this point.Since you can find nearly everything that you want to learn on Google, why would you prefer ChatGPT? The thing is that Google provides you with every option with different references, which would take some time to examine every each of them to find the most useful one among them.However, you don't have to do research if you are user of ChatGPT, because it...

        -H5P is a tool that enables you to produce interactive and rich contents without any necessity to use programs that require payment or to know how to use software.The first developed version of H5P was published on wordpress in 2014.Later, it was developed on Drupal in the same year and then developed on Moodle in 2017.These websites are among compatible ones with H5P, which means you can share your contents on these websites, which is already among goals of H5P.One of the reasons why it was developed is to remove some technical hardships or copyright-related problems that people encounter while producing interactive contents and thus H5P aims at making the process of creating interactive contents easier.Its use is appropriate for all stages in education and since it is community-focused, many foundations are using H5P in a widespread manner now. -H5P project aims at making HTML-based contents easy to create and publish on other platforms.In this way, establi...

      -In today's world, it is seen as a necessity to use technology for an effective teaching.In this context, TPACK is a model developed to provide teachers with necessary knowledge about how to utilize technology to make teaching effective.TPACK gives us a frame in which technology can be integrated into education in order to provide students with a qualified, better education service.It consists of three fields and gives us information about technology, pedagogy and content knowledge.These fields are represented with separate circles and they are interconnected to each other as you can see below. 1-Technological Knowledge (TK) -It includes knowledge about how to use technological devices and applications on internet and knowledge about the information and communication technologies.I can give such examples as laptops, smart boards or some web 2.0 tools like blogs, google classroom, edmodo. 2-Pedagogical Knowledge (PK) -This one includes knowledge of students' learning...

     -Before writing this blog, I used padlet to answer some questions about learning, so I had a chance to get familiar with padlet and I am going to share my experiences and knowledge about it with you. -Padlet is a website that allows students and teachers to interact effectively in an online platform.Users can write or add a video or image on a board on which many activities are realized.If you want to use it, too as a teacher or learner or someone interested, create an account on this link: https://tr.padlet.com and then create your own board.After that, share link to your board on padlet with others so that they can see and attend to the board.You can use padlet for a lot of reasons such as learning what your students think about a lesson topic or exchanging opinions with your co-workers about an issue that is important to your busin-ess.This also lets you save time.One aspect of padlet that I like is enhancing your creativity, because padl-et lets you see what oth...

     -Hello my readers.In this blog, I am going to give brief information about Journi that has allowed us to turn every moment of our lifes into photos easily.Journi is a company that uses artifical intelligence to enable people to integrate their lifes with qualified photos.Their application "Journi Print" was developed owing to people's desire to collect their memories in an easy way and having fun.Purpose of this software company is to make print products fun and fast for their customers so that they can shape their lifes with momentary photos. -People always remember the best moments of their lifes with qualified photos that Journi provides. Good times become unforgettable with Journi.  Great memories should take forever.                                                       The best ideas at Journi always win. 3 things that make...

     -Seesaw is a digital platform that strengthens the bond among students, teachers and parents in education.Students create their portfolios with diverse rich options such as drawing, adding photograph, video or links in classes that teachers create.In this way, students make a collection of their works and teachers can observe their works and guess in which level students are or how well they make a progress, which improves quality of education.Besides, seesaw allows teachers to give instant feedbacks to students and allows parents to monitor what works students do and thus enables parents to be closer to their children's education process.So, it can be said that seesaw is a useful education channel for teachers, students and parents. Detailed Information      -Seesaw lets teachers create a class and share a link or code with students.All students registered can be viewed.Teachers are provided with some options such as journal, activities, inbox and ski...

  How does Technology enhance language learning?   -When you look back and make a comparison between today and the past, it can be easily seen that language learning has evolved thanks to technology.Today , learners have more many opportunities to develop their target languages and gain access to diverse materials, resources that were once hard to reach.In the rest of the paper, some ways in which technology enhances language learning will be talked about.   1-Technology-Enhanced Language Learning: Making learning student-centered   - It is a teaching approach that features technology in language learning.It gives learners a lot of opportunities to improve their language skills.For instance, Computer Mediated Communication allows them to get in touch with other people from different places in the world through network and thus helps them be more fluent in speaking or writing.Learners can also make use of dig...