PADLET

What is Padlet ?

Padlet is a website that provides users with a digital canvas. The user can post text, videos and images from a mobile device or a desktop.

How to use Padlet in language classes ?
As you can see from the picture above, there are eight options to make .I chose to make a timeline about Marie Curie .I can use it in the classroom when I become a teacher.You can create a lot of  materials like this easily. They are easy to make ,colourful and interesting.You can want the students to make one as homework too. They will not get bored easily while doing it . Also, you can create one as a whole classroom .You start it and students can edit , add something else.

You can also look at this link for more ideas.

  QUIZLET


Quizlet is a mobile and web-based study application that allows students to study information via learning tools and games. Quizlet trains students via flashcards and various games and tests.
You can also add pictures to the flashcards.I think it is really helpful for students who are  visual learners.

I have first started to use this app at the first year of university but I think  it can be used effectively in highschools ,too.

I have made a set about English numbers . .You can have look at it via this link.https://quizlet.com/_7r8pi2?x=1qqt&i=1y89b3

VOKI


Voki is an educational tool that allows users to create their very own talking character.
Voki characters can be customized to look like historical figures, cartoons, animals, and even yourself!

I have chose the character down below and made it  read the first 4  stanza of  The Tyger poem by William Blake.

        You can watch it here from this link

http://tinyurl.com/wsjmghg

                                                       
                       

               WORDLE

Wordle is a free website that you are able to create visual representations of text through "word clouds" to illustrate your message or concepts. Wordle is a free website that anyone can have access to.

It can be used as a material in the classroom. It depends on your imagination. For example , when I was at 11th grade out teacher made a word cloud including our names and put it down on the door. It wasn't educstional in this example but it made us feel that we were belong there. I think it was really nice.

                                           
                 
  HOT POTATOES -JCross


The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like.






When you first open it, you see this screen .You can choose whatever you want. I have chosen JCross.

Here, I  made a crossword on vegetables.I also put  hints for them.When students solve it ,they can use the hints.

SOCRATIVE 


 Socrative allows teachers to create simple quizzes that students can take quickly on laptops – or, more often, via classroom tablet computers or their own smartphones. I have used it to create a mini quiz on comparative and superlative adjectives.

You can reach my quiz from this link.

https://b.socrative.com/teacher/#import-quiz/43818189


It also allows creating pdfs.It means that you can print your quiz or your students can solve it  on their smartphones.

           
  PIXTON

Pixton is a cartoon creation tool that allows its users to create  comics. As English teachers , we can use Pixton to create materials. I have made this one below .You can make better ones if you give it a try.

  STORYBIRD - Simba Makes a Friend


Storybird is a language arts tool.It  uses illustrations to inspire members to write stories.Its most futures are free.There are five options you can make; picture book , longform story , comic , flash fiction and poetry .I chose to make a picture book . Firstly I have found related illustrations and write a story by using those illustrations . You can  either  read my picture book on the site with this link https://storybird.com/picture-book/simba-makes-a-friend

Or you can read it from here .

https://storybird.com/picture-book/simba-makes-a-friend

  DIRECT   METHOD

I and my friends prepeared a video as an example of direct method and shared it on YouTube .

Direct method  in language teaching was developed as a response to the Grammar-Translation method. It sought to immerse the learner in the same way as when a first language is learnt. All teaching is done in the target language, grammar is taught inductively, there is a focus on speaking and listening, and only useful ‘everyday' language is taught.

You can understand it better via our example .

AUTONOMOUS LEARNING - VODCAST


Hello everyone, I hope you are all well.
 I want to show you something today .I was asked to make a vodcast in an education related topic  as homework .So I chose autonomous learning and  I also mentioned self access centers in it.
If you don't know what vodcast is , let me explain.A vodcast is a podcast that contains video content.I made it by using Powtoon .It is a useful cloud-based software  for creating animated presentations and animated explainer videos.It is easy to use it  and to make  enjoyable to watch videos .I recommend it to you.


As for the Autonomous Learning ,you can watch the vodcast here to learn the details.

SECONDLIFE -  A Virtual World

Hello everyone,
Today I want to tell you about a  game I have been exploring recently, thanks to our teacher.Its name is Second Life.It's actually a 3D online virtual world where users create avatars ( visual representations of themselves) and are able to interact with places,objects and other avatars.It means you can do nearly everything you do in real life and more. You can walk,run,sit,swim,talk and you can also fly .You can join in several events .For example ;I went to an art gallery .It was a nice experience. You can give this game  a try .


I want to show you my avatar.It doesn't look like me at all because I haven't been able to customize it yet.I will share it here if I can do it later.













I was exploring the game   when I took this picture.













I was at an art gallery at this one.

That's all for now.Thanks for reading 😊