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AR Augmented Reality (AR) is a very popular technology nowadays. It’s been getting more popular with the developing technology. As for the definition of AR, it brings some visual elements into our real world on the screen in simple terms. So that means, you can open your camera in your room and see a full-size gorilla right next to you. Thanks to Augmented Reality technology, it is now possible to experience these kinds of things. For instance, if you want to see a color or style change on your hair fits you or not, then you can use AR supported applications to see! This technology is incredible for education too. Sometimes providing some materials is very difficult due to various reasons. For instance, a teacher might teach the class dinosaurs. Since it is impossible to bring a dinosaur in the classroom, an app supports AR technology can be used to demonstrate the dinosaur. You may ask, but how a language teacher can use this for their class? Besides the grammar, it can be used fo...

As for the Cambridge Dictionary ,  a  video   stored  in a  digital   form   (= in a  form  that uses  signals  in the  form  of  numbers )  that you can  download  from the  internet  and  play  on a  computer  or on an  MP3   player  is Vidcast. So I wanted to try and share my own Vidcast for you about an extension. Hope you enjoy!   https://youtu.be/-YKQsj1OJMA

   Hello, my dear readers. Today I want to inform you about an incredible tool; Flipgrid. This tool is basically a video sharing platform. Teacher posts a video and students records their response to the teacher. The topic of the video depends on teacher’s preferences. For instance, teacher can ask something or something to do related to lesson, from their students and the students send their answer to teacher. In this way, they can interact with each other with video. Also, this supports the one-to-one interaction. The teacher can comment on the videos and give feedback to students. Every video is called ‘grid’. So, the grids may be used to grade the students.   A teacher should be creative and innovator at the same time. This kind of tools help teachers to have more active lessons. Also, as a language teacher, we can use this tool to examine our students’ pronunciation of the words and their knowledge of grammar. In this way, we can find out the problems about their c...

  LMS (learning management system) is a part of online education which provides classroom learning such as, activities, etc. Mostly in these days, because of the pandemic, these kinds of systems help us to keep up with education without going to school. There are two tools that I want to introduce you today. -Blackboard   We can say that Blackboard is actually an online classroom. It is a part of LMS. So that, teacher can assign the students, control their improvements, upload some documents about the lessons, test the students, make announcements about any kind of changing or about some news, contact with the students, and students can collaborate, discuss with each other online.   This is a great way to continue the education in some exclusive situations such as this pandemic. Besides the website, there is an app for mobile phones and tablets. So, you can access to your lesson even if you are not home or in a specific place. -Moodle   Moodle almost has t...

    Do you want to make an online presentation? But are there some internet connection problems? And do you want to see a presentation uninterrupted? This is the right place. Voicethread comes to help! You may ask, what is Voicethread? How to use?   Voicethread is basically a virtual presentation tool. Firstly, you need to register to website and then, you see the homepage. In the homepage, you can create a new presentation. There is an option to upload your pre-prepared files. After uploading the files there is an option to record your voice or video. If you uploaded a slide, then you need to record voice/video for each page. If you did not like the recorded voice/video, you can delete and record it again! I used the website for my two presentation assignments and I highly recommend it. The website is very easy to understand. After finishing your task, you can share the link with your teacher, students or whoever you want. And of course, there is privacy! Only the pe...

  According to the  Oxford English Dictionary , an infographic (or information graphic) is “a visual representation of information or data”. It includes texts, images, charts, etc. on it. The given information is simple and brief. So that, people can easily understand what the infographic is about. Here is my overview in infographic of Pinterest;