Quizlet

Quizlet is a mobile and web-based study application that allows students to study information via learning tools and games.

Missions:

To help students and their teachers practice and master whatever they are learning. Quizlet provides engaging, customizable activities with constributions from people everywhere.

How To Use It:

The best way to get started on Quizlet as a student or a teacher is to search for sets made by other Quzilet users. To find study sets, select the magnifying glass icon at the top of any page on Quizlet. Then, type in your subject or the name of the exam you're studying for and press. Enter to see a list of results.
If you're looking to study something very specific, or would like to share content you create with a group of classmates or student, you may want to create your own sets rather than study those made. ın order to create sets, you'll first need to sign up for an account. You can create sets with texts, add images or create a diagram set.
There are lots of great resources for teachers looking to use Quizlet with their students.
While you can do a lot with a free Quizlet account, tehy offer two subscription packages -Quizlet Plus for students and Quizlet Teacher for teachers- that enable you to create more engaging content, study ad-free on the Quizlet website and mobile apps and customize your study or teaching experience.
You can study with Quzilet anywhere using free iOS and Android apps.

♦I created a class, so if you want to check out how quizlet works, you can click and see my example. To log in the class, you can use the code "occupations".
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https://quizlet.com/join/dAR88WGMH

♦For the ones who don't want to join the class, they can simply click this link below and just review my activity.
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https://quizlet.com/_6j4int

VOKI

VOKI enables users to express themselves on the web using a talking character. You can customize your character to look or sound like you or take the identity of lots of other types of characters. 

HIGHLIGHTS

a) Hands on Technology: Voki is a fun way to introduce technology in the class. The user friendly interface allows students to gain experience with a variety of web based applications. 

b) Create and Imagine: Voki encourages students to use their imagination. There are infinite character combinations to create and a variety of ways they can give their Voki a voice. 

c) Memorable Learning: Vokis, by design, are a visual and audible point of reference for the lesson information. Students have a hand in the entire process of creation whick leads to a stronger retention of what they learned.

d) Motivate to Participate: Kids of all ages and personalities will embrace Voki. The lesson plan database covers topics for Kindergarteners up to High School and beyond. Even the shyest child in class will be able to make their voice heard with Voki. 

e) Language Tool: Voki voices are available in over 30 languages so students all over he world can participate. Voki is also a great tool in language classes for lessons and pronunciation. 

f) Fun: What's not to love about Voki? Expect passionate work from students with a side of smiles. 

How To Create and Publish Your Voki 

My Voki character ➽Teacher Aph ✨ http://tinyurl.com/y6qqgtzo 👈

Storybird - Artful Storytelling

     Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. It's a simple idea that has attracted millions of writers, readers, and artists to the platform. Families and friends, teachers and students, and amateurs and professionals can create stories. 

HOW IT WORKS :

 boost your writing skills

Storybird’s writing curriculum offers 300+ lessons, quizzes, and writing prompts created by experienced educators and expert authors.

Explore your creativity

Choose from multiple writing formats, from comics to picture books to poetry to longform. Start with a challenge for ready-made inspiration.

Get inspired

8 million writers in more than 100 countries around the world use Storybird to tell their stories. Read the best writers and get inspired.

Publish your work

Ready to share your words with the world? Submit your stories to get expert feedback from teachers, professional editors, and authors.

My Poem

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 https://storybird.com/longform-story/paradise--0

Before writing, I searched network and chose my theme lyrical miracle. The best thing about this application is that it gives you instructions and advices. 

Write a lyric poem about something in your life that you consider miraculous—it could be a special memory, unexpected event, or simply the love you feel for those close to you. Write about your feelings, but be sure to not include personal information like your last name, hometown, or the name of your school.

Lyric poems use a lot of descriptive language, including similes and metaphors, to express big ideas. To review these terms, check out this guide on Lyric Poetry.

If you can’t think of a miracle that really happened, write about something you wish would happen! Maybe your lyric poem is about winning the lottery, hitting that home run, or finding a puppy in the park. Whatever the story, use these tools and start writing!

1. Find an Image in the art library that inspires you. Click on the lightning bolt and select “Use this Art for a Longform Story” to launch the Storymaker.
2. Write a Lyric Poem in the Longform story editor. 
   1. Your poem must be at least 10 lines long. 
   2. A lyric poem does NOT need to rhyme, but it must include lots of figurative language, such as metaphors, similes, and sensory details.
   3. Don't include personal identifying information. Follow these guidelines to stay safe online. 
3. Once you’ve finished writing, give your Lyric Poem a title. Make sure it will grab your reader's attention.
4. Proofread your poem. Check your spelling and punctuation, and do a final line count. 
5. Now you’re ready to enter your Lyric Poem into the Challenge. Publish your single-page longform story and submit it!

Review: I really liked Storybird. It is because I enjoy writing so much but apart from that I also liked the idea that you can create visual supported writings is perfect. While reading the poems, stories, comics etc., you can also enjoy the pictures. This makes the storyline more imaginary. 

Make sure to check out this wonderful app!

FLIPGRID

  Flipgrid is not only about recording videos. It's about learning. Learning that is social, personal, can happen anywhere and anytime, about making connections and promotes that everyone is a teacher and everyone is a learner.

HOW TO CREATE A FLIPGRID

Stage 1- Create your account: go to flipgrid.com and select sign up. You have two options: you can either create your account with Google/Microsoft or with your email.

Stage 2- Create a grid: Select + New Grid to get started.
Give your grid a name.
The grid link is automatically created but you can change it,too.

Stage 3- Add topics to your grid: You need to add a title and description/question to your topic. These are required. The decription or question is the propmpt students will read to know what to respond to.
Response time is set to 1:30 but tou can change it, from 15 seconds to 5 minutes.

Stage 4- Responding to topics: You have two options when adding a response to a topic. Record a response using your device's camera or upload a previously saved video from a file.

Stage 5- Ideas: It's a hub for the students to share about what they are thinking, reading, watching, doing, or creating with their learning community. It gives students the freedom to share their voice anytime.

FLIPGRID COMMUNITY

Flipgrid Explorer Series: It's a way for students to connect and engage with people doing interesting things around the world. These events give students the opportunity to learn from experts all over the globe and allow them to experience what is like to be in a career they may otherwise have never even thought of.

Topic Discovery Library: It's an educator's one step shop to share and find topic templates. And it's for free. You can find the topic dşscovery library by selecting the discovery tab at the top of your educator dashboard.

CoPilots: With a CoPilots feature a flipgrid classroom educator can invite others to co-manage a grid.

Going Global: Using Flipgrif allows you to connect yur classroom with students from all over the globe. To do this check out the Connections tab at the top of your educator dashboard.

To find out more about Flipgrid ⇉ https://static.flipgrid.com/docs/Flipgrid_eBook_2nd_edition.pdf
To check out my Flipgrid ⇉ https://flipgrid.com/web03
Or you can join with the code: web03

POWTOON

PowToon is a drag-and-drop video creation solution that’s easy and even fun to use, thanks to some eye-catching and entertaining designs:

Not creatively inclined? No problem! PowToon has created a number of ready-made PowToons that you can make your own with simple customizations. From marketing videos to internal meeting videos and even resumes, you’ll find almost everything you need:

How To Create a Video on PowToon

Step 1: Select Your Video’s Design Template

Step 2: The Video Creation Screen

Step 3: Upload Your Images

Step 4: Add Text

Step 5: Add Other Elements

Step 6: Determine the Length of Each Scene

Step 7: Set Up the Timeline for Each Scene

Step 8: Complete All the Scenes

Step 9: Add Sound

Step 10: Test the Video

Step 11: Publish the Video

Step 12: Share and Download the Video

(credit : https://smallbiztrends.com/2015/10/what-is-powtoon-for-business.html )

Reviews: PowToon has the potential to be a powerful animated presentation tool. Whether teacher- or student-created presentations are the plan, the slide-based format allows presenters some control over how they present their information. Turn writing instruction on its head by teaching students to create expository or persuasive videos. PowToon and its many features, and it will help if teachers know something about the tool in order to guide students. Students can share presentations with their peers and collaborate on ideas in class, but real-time collaborative editing capability would be a nice addition. More education-related examples and blogs for inspiration would make this tool an even more valuable classroom resource.

I also made a presentation using Powtoon. You can check it by clicking the link. 

➤ https://www.powtoon.com/c/g6RIcIXl75p/1/m 

Augmented Reality (AR)

   Augmented reality is the technology that expands our physical world, adding layers of digital information onto it. Unlike Virtual Reality (VR), AR does not create the whole artificial environments to replace real with a virtual one. AR appears in direct view of an existing environment and adds sounds, videos, graphics to it. A view of the physical real-world environment with superimposed computer-generated images, thus changing the perception of reality, is the AR.

   AR can be displayed on various devices: screens, glasses, handheld devices, mobile phones, head-mounted displays. It involves technologies like S.L.A.M. (simultaneous localization and mapping), depth tracking (briefly, a sensor data calculating the distance to the objects), and the following components:

• Cameras and sensors. Collecting data about user’s interactions and sending it for processing. Cameras on devices are scanning the surroundings and with this info, a device locates physical objects and generates 3D models. It may be special duty cameras, like in Microsoft Hololens, or common smartphone cameras to take pictures/videos.
• Processing. AR devices eventually should act like little computers, something modern smartphones already do. In the same manner, they require a CPU, a GPU, flash memory, RAM, Bluetooth/WiFi, a GPS, etc. to be able to measure speed, angle, direction, orientation in space, and so on.
• Projection. This refers to a miniature projector on AR headsets, which takes data from sensors and projects digital content (result of processing) onto a surface to view. In fact, the use of projections in AR has not been fully invented yet to use it in commercial products or services.
• Reflection. Some AR devices have mirrors to assist human eyes to view virtual images. Some have an “array of small curved mirrors” and some have a double-sided mirror to reflect light to a camera and to a user’s eye. The goal of such reflection paths is to perform a proper image alignment.

 Credit: (https://thinkmobiles.com/blog/what-is-augmented-reality/)

In our instructional technologies and material design class, we also created an AR. At the beginning of the class, we downloaded the app HP Reveal, which helped us to see our created ARs. Then, our instructor gave as a paper consisting of animal pictures and wanted us to create an AR in the app. 

We started with taking a photo of an animal in the paper, then we searched the thing that we wanted to appear when we scan that picture. After these stages, we shared it in our private or public auras. Whenever we zoom in the picture, we can see it moving. 

In order to understand it better, you can watch my videos below.