Second Life Experince

Hello Everyone !!

Seeing the headline I bet you also sighed and said I wish .Yes none of us have chance to have second life oppurtinity but you can both have fun and give some education to learners with this platform that I will describe .

The name of the platform is Second Life

Getting into the platform wasnt easy at first as I was getting failure for the request all the time .
However after it , the platfor m was easy to use .

Though using it for a while I couldnt find enough possible ways to use it for language learners .
Maybe after some more researchements about it we can find some possible ways for it .

TPACK and SAMR Models:

Hello there !

Until now I have described many platforms for you to teach languages to your students or for students to have more chance using them . Today however I will describe how to use those platforms
effectively . There are two models that we use while using those platforms .

First one is TPACK Model 

" TPACK stands for Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. It is a theory that was developed to explain the set of knowledge that teachers need to teach their students a subject, teach effectively, and use technology. We’ll get into more details in just a minute, but let’s look at where this started. " (Mcgraw 2020) . 

Framework of TPACK,  can integrate technology into the content and pedagogy to classrooms. The integration will help  students learn more effectively (Mcgraw 2020)

As can be seen Tpack model aims to integrate technology ,content knowledge and pedagogy togather to have more effective plan. We can therefore  structure our classrooms to provide the best educational experience for students while incorporating technology.

The second one is SAMR Model

SAMR Model consists of four level of integration . 

 As students are becoming more technology savvy, it is requiring educators to keep up with technological advancements and to have the skillset to integrate them into the classroom. According to Tapscott (2009) .

Through SAMR model educators to evaluate their level of integration into the classroom  

The SAMR model was created to help in planning and assessing the levels of technologies used in the classroom (Jacobs-Israel, & Moorefield-Lang, 2013) .The model is encouraging that curriculum be created in a way that allows students to also learn the technological skills needed in the 21st century (Hilton, 2016).

My Pixton.com Experience

Hello everyone !!

It seems like the situation of  Covid-19 here getting better and better day by day .I hope we will be
able to turn our normal and routine life .

We should still stay at home and help all the officers who are helping to solve this crisis .
Therefore I'm gonna show you guys another platform for you and your language learners.

The name of the platform is PIXTON .It is a platform that lets you to write comic books . As comic
books are quite popular among learners this would be great idea to give them motivation .

Once you sign in to Pixton it gives you a tutorial about how to make comics which was useful for
someone like me as I've never tried making comic book .

I tried to do a comic book in the platform too

 but it was annoying as the site lagging everytime I 

choose a section . However this might be a problem coused by my own pc .

Still it is great platform ,  for example if you want some drills and dialogues from your students .

VOKI and FLIPGRID:

Oi Oiiii !!


Welcome to anothher episode of me giving you examples of platforms for your future educational 
life . Names of today's starts are Voki and Flipgrid . 


These two platform are similar to eachother . 

Flipgrid is another platform that let you be creative in your lessons by making videos . 

Flipgrid is a great way to quickly assess how your students are connecting and applying new information. Flipgrid allows for an entire class (of any size) to present a 90 second video response to teacher or student generated questions. The learning community can then interact with various postings by sending short messages or 'hearts' to show support of an idea.(Victoria R. )

Here is an example of my own flipgrid . 

THINGLINK

Heyyoooo !!!

Another day in Paradise lockdown isn't it ? Yes , as long as we find some hobbies and times to improve ourselves  we can make our little safe and sound paradise .

Today I'm gonna intruduce you another platform for teaching language or for students learning by themselves .

The name of the platform is THINGLINK

Thinglink is an interactive image tool that help users to turn any image into a multimedia luncher .ThingLink provides an easy-to-use platform for creating engaging, interactive images. It gives kids the potential to create meaningful content for any subject. ThingLink is an interactive image-creation tool designed to help kids present information in a different way (Educational App Store ) 

When you add your interactive image and add content you can also add descriptions  which are embedded in the image through "tags,"

 It is possible to add other users to your stream and to follow their work. 

There is also feature of sharing in thinglink so you can share what have been done via Facebook and many more . 

For example in picture above' idea is summarizing  a list of new words in a chapter or article you have read. Draw/doodle an illustration of each word. Use ThingLink to record the pronunciation for each word.There were voices next to each vocabulary . 

In this one aim is to  creating an all-about-me poster use  phone or tablet to take a photo of it and explain it using text, video, or voice notes.

Augmented Reality

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I'm so excited today .Reason is thanks to my lecturer as he invited someone who explained us about augmented reality . I didn't know until then that we could use such technology that easyly  in education . It was to me something that can be done in at least 10 years . However as the guest explained us it seemed so easy both for teachers and students . 

Then lets talk about this famous augmented reality . 

To be honestly first I heard from the guest about Augmented Reality POKEMON Go came to my mind 

Therefore I got prejudiced thinking how can we use this in education at all . 

However after the lesson it was obvious for me that I was gonna use this technology with 
my students eventually . We all know how abstract lessons for vocabulary teaching passing .Something attractive and different important to use it to draw attention of students and keep their motivation . It is true that language teachers bring some concrete objects while teaching 
vocabulary especially to young learners .However with this technology teaching and also learning can be more effective and easier . 

For a platform like Mondly for example has started to use this technology combining Virtual Reality and Augmented reality together . 

As the time passes students and their learning attention also changes therefore we should follow the trend as they do . 

Virtual Reality

Hello there !

We all at least I want to see many places and adventures

 in the world which is still not possible for a student like me :). 

Yet as we know there is technological advice that help us at

 least feel how it would be like if we were there .I think you can guess it 

.It is VR ,Virtual Reality . 

As the reason for me to open this blog to describe usages

 of  technological platform in education .I will talk about how 

to entegrate the virtual reality to education . 

Though it may looks like something that can be happen in 50 years ıt may be quite useful to use
virtual reality in especially language education from young learners to adult learners .

As for young learners early education is all about learning through experience .Using VR therefore
will let them to learn by seeing and living it .

For others it is important to keep students engaged and motivated and challenged throughout their
school career . It is ultimate aim of teachers . Therefore VR can unlock potential and give students
new ways to experience learning in different way compared to classic blackboard education .