Build Your Own Flascard Sets: Quizlet

                          Learn With Flashcards, Games&Study Tools

Quizlet is a free website providing learning tools for students, including flashcard, study and game modes.It was created by high school sophomore Andrew Sutherland in 2005 and now contains over 40 million study sets.All of the meterial is user generated.
Teachers can search premade learning sets by subject or create their own.They can set up classes and monitor student progressthrough assigned learning sets.Students can log into their teacher's assigned learning sets, search for sets on a prescribed subject,or they can create their own studey aids! Briefly:

• Enables you to study key vocabulary
• Create flashcards to preview the learning unit
• Study the cards regularly to learn the terms 
• Play a game or take a practice quiz to check your progress

         Here is the link of cards that i prepared about common vocabulary.

Colloborate in Blackboard

• Blackboard is a virtual learning environment that you can access on and off a campus.
• It is online platform that provides a space for each course taught each semester. Student enrollments, grades, courses, and faculty assignments are administered automatically by the system.
• A teaching and learning system that is used to deliver online resources and learning activities. 
• A shared repository of problems, partial solutions, suggestions, and contributed information. The blackboard can be seen as a dynamic “library” of contributions to the current problem that have been recently “published” by other knowledge sources 
• Virtual online platform that supports learner engagement, interaction, and learning through technology and educational services.
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• An e-learning platform and online course management system used extensively in colleges, universities, and other educational institutions. Blackboard supports online tools such as discussion forums, email, live chat, and whiteboarding, as well as content in various formats

Web 2.0 and Emerging Learning Technologies: Hot Potatoes

 

                              Creating Interactive Web-Based Exercises

Hot Potatoes software allows you to make interactive assessments for students. One of the advantages of using this software is that it is free to use and can be accessed anywhere once it has been downloaded, so the teacher can start creating activities. Furthermore, it gives the teacher a variety, making the students more motivated as the lessons are neither repetitive nor are they solely based on the traditional pen and paper. Moreover, by using activities such as those that can be created by Hot Potatoes, students are becoming more independent in their learning and also more computer literate.The quizzes are made on your local computer and then can be imported into Moodle or shared on websites.

-JQuiz - multiple choice and short answer
-JCloze - gap-fill exercieses
-JMatch - Matching and Ordering Questions
-JMix - jumbled sentence or jumbled word exercises
-JCross - crossword questions

All Your Classes In One Place: Edmodo

Manage your classroom. Engage your students.

Edmodo is a free social learning platform for teachers, parents, and students.The use of Edmodo in the classroom offers many possible advantages to both students and teachers. Edmodo’s platform is based around groups with a common interest or purpose, such as a classroom learning community. Edmodo provides a secure and private environment. The administrator, or teacher, invites the members of the group. This controls who can interact with the members of the group.

Edmodo can be incorporated into classrooms for a variety of uses. Current uses include posting assignments, taking quizzes, creating polls for student responses, and providing links for useful information. Edmodo allows students to upload assignments for their teachers to view and grade. Students also have the ability to post questions or comments to the entire group, or to post directly and privately to the instruction or page administrator.

• Safe, closed network
• Students can participate in online discussions
• Environmentally friendly, no paper needed
• The calendar keeps all homework organized for teachers and students
• Allows students to collaborate with peers in other classes, schools, or countries
• Teachers can differentiate instruction by creating subgroups of students
• After posting their work, students can receive feedback and suggestions
• There are text alerts to remind students of big assignments
• Teachers can give students positive reinforcement privately
• Ability to share digital media such as blogs, links, videos, documents, notes, presentations etc.
• Parents can stay connected by viewing their child's work and grades
• Parents and teachers can message one another
• Students can upload homework assignments
• Teachers can give feedback and post grades

      Here's the link of edmodo that you can log in https://new.edmodo.com/

Have Fun While Learning: Kahoot!

                                                        Make Learning Awesome

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes.

This is a game-based platform where students are encouraged to be leaders by researching, creating and presenting quizzes. They conduct research themselves on a given topic and also encourage their classmates to learn.

Kahoot saves the result of every quiz played over the platform.  When learners start quizzing they need to enter their nickname and their recorded scores are saved in their profile. This unique feature makes Kahoot an engaging platform.After a game, encourage players to create and share their own kahoots! With one of our premium plans for schools or business, you can co-create games with your colleagues and save time on finding relevant kahoots for your class or training session.Yo are able to do these via Kahoot:

-Create and Share Questions
-Powerful Classroom Engagement Tool
-Educators challenge learners to ask their own questions
-Learners become leaders by asking their questions back
-Answer questions through a powerful classroom engagement tool

           Let's review the quiz that I made up about Methods of Language Teaching on Kahoot:https://create.kahoot.it/share/methods-of-language-learning/5cb02162-0569-4359-bab3-66c047af6522

Virtual Reality in Education

Transforming Education Through Technology 

A virtual learning environment is an online-based platform that offers students and professors digital solutions that enhance the learning experience. Unlike a virtual classroom, which is meant to replicate and replace the physical classroom environment for distance learners, a virtual learning environment (or VLE) harnesses technology to supplement an in-class experience, with, for example, digital communication, interaction and quizzes or polls run through the VLE.

A virtual learning environment refers to a system that offers educators digitally-based solutions aimed at creating interactive, active learning environments. VLEs can help professors create, store and disseminate content, plan courses and lessons and foster communication between student and professor (in the form of e-mails and discussions), even in real-time. Virtual learning environments are often part of a higher education institution’s wider learning management system (LMS).

And i used Avakin Life in order to give you an example for better understanding:

Technically speaking, virtual learning environments are designed spaces that resemble architecturally sophisticated buildings. Think of an ideal place of teaching and learning, one where the messy desk covered in coffee-stained assessments and the equally large pile of lesson plans all moves to your laptop. Teachers effortlessly move between assessment, feedback, sharing and monitoring without knocking over their coffee in the process. Students have their assessments returned swiftly -- unstained. A virtual learning environment offers not only an elegantly designed space for teaching and learning, but a place where learners, teachers and students feel at ease. A good VLE allows users to co-construct their learning environments together over time. 

There are several advantages of visual aids. Let’s learn what they are to help you better understand the power of visuals in eLearning: 

 -Help Store Information Longer

 -Make Communication Quicker And Simpler
 -Aid Better Comprehension
 -Act As Stimulators For Emotions
 -Drive Motivation
 -Unsuitable Visuals Equals Unhappy Learners

Moodle: E-Learning Course

                               Empowering educators to improve our world

Technology has always been at the forefront of human education. From the days of carving figures on rock walls to today, when most students are equipped with several portable technological devices at any given time, technology continues to push educational capabilities to new levels. In looking at where educational methods and tools have come from to where they are going in the future, technology’s importance in the classroom is evident now more than ever.

Moodle is an excellent content management system that allows the teaching of subjects through the internet no matter where the location.Moodle its fundamentally used for organizing the teaching of virtual courses online.The use of Moodle has been used in many different types of places like small academies, and large universities.This virtual learning allows the teacher to offer remote assessments like tests and various exercises.The teacher can place documents on the web so the students can complete their homework, and also maintain communication using many tools like e mail or posting on a bulletin board.

-Moodle promotes a social constructionist pedagogy (which includes collaboration, activity-based learning, critical reflection, etc).
-Moodle is suitable for 100% online classes as well as supplementing face-to-face learning.
-Moodle has a simple, lightweight, efficient, compatible, low-tech browser interface.
-Course listings show descriptions for every course on the server, including accessibility to guests
-Courses can be categorized and searched - one Moodle site can support thousands of courses.

      I haven't used this education system yet.When i start i will be sharing my  experiences here.                

Learn Via Pixton

The World's Best Way To Make Comics

Pixton is a cartoon creation tool that allows its users to create awesome comics. Pixton has also a growing community that anyone can access to contribute with their own comics. This tool is very easy to use and does not require any artistic skills to work on it. You can introduce it to your students and let them create their own comics and share them with each other.
Here is a list of the main features that Pixton provides for its users:
-It is free for individual accounts
-It lets users create their own comics
-It lets you give text and speech bubbles to characters
-It lets you edit the shape and position of each comic panel
-It offers unlimited range of expressions
-It lets you upload your own photos and personalize them the way you want
-It provides presets, templates, and shapes

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Also,this is my first cartoon creation on Pixton as well:

In order to go to my dashboard on Pixton ,you can just click here

:https://app.pixton.com/#/edu

Kids love comics, and computers. Tap this interest to get them writing!

Explore Fascinating Pins: Pinterest

             Pins Of The World

          This is a social network that's actually worth paying attention to

Pinterest is a social media platform which people use to search, save and learn different things through visual images. It can be anything from designs in fashions, wedding decor, events, architecture and furniture, recipes, tips to good health, or education.Ideas on Pinterest are presented through images and videos attached with URL links. Pinterest is an original site where anything the user shares or downloads is in the form of images. Pinterest is a visual treat to its users and has recently become very popular all around the world because of its diversified content.

Teachers and students are vastly benefiting from this site. Teachers can make their lesson plans interesting with the help of Pinterest. This social platform differentiates lesson plans by using images and videos for visual understanding.Science experiments and projects can be made more in depth, which in turn makes learning easy and fun.Since Pinterest has become one of the newest and best online tools, the site is popular amongst teachers. They are able to save pictures and even blogs, using online pin boards in an easily accessible and usable way. Some different ways teachers can use Pinterest to inspire themselves follow:

Decorate classrooms: Pinterest provides a number of photos of classroom setups. These classrooms would be lively for the students too.

Referencing studies: These ideas can be organized on Pinterest and can be easily found when needed.

Showcasing student accomplishments: Pinterest provides creative ideas to make such bulletin displays.

Educational pins: Give teachers ideas regarding the student’s projects and lesson plans.

 Google searches can contain inappropriate content, which is useless and gives a negative impact on users. Pinterest restricts and controls these searches for the students. The website also tries to keep its content clean and user-friendly.

Pinterest’s increasing popularity proves that it is one of the most useful sites, highlighting on the importance of educating. It has made teaching and learning techniques easy and interesting. Connecting through Pinterest has made the teacher-student relationship stronger. It’s also an inspiring and motivating site for anyone.

        If you're ready to get started with Pinterest, you can visit my profile by clicking here

Voki For Education

Get Your Own Speaking Avatar

The significiant role of technical training is in the application of knowledge.There are special exercise equipment, new computer programs aimed at developing skills:Voki

Voki is an online,virtual classroom tool.Through this program, as an instructor ,you can create an avatar to represent yourself or someone else to present the topic you are trying to teach .You can then addd speech to this avatar to make the experience easier on your students.Voki gives you as a teacher the opportunity to engage students in any topic area through a simple to use and free resource available anytime and anywhere for almost any purpose.Voki is used for:

-Getting students to share their learning 

-Getting feedback from students

-Getting students to add a more human feel to their bog or wiki

-Foreign language speakers to express views and opinions easier 

-Engaging and hooking students into a subject or topic

-Interacting with students on a global level 

-Practising and listening to their presentation

-Much,much more... 

 Welcome to the 21.century where technology presents us with a multitude of ways to do things and when it comes to using technologhy ,the kids simply love it!

Lesson outlines,which include teacher ratings ,offer a wealth of ideas and list the trageted grade level,bjectives,duration,and required meterials.One of Voki's best uses is as an instant playback tool;if kids type a sentence into the site that's grammatically incorrect or contains spelling errors,having it spoken back to them will let them hear and fix mistakes.

Using Voki to enhance learning requires some out of the box thinking on the teacher's part, and the site does offer a lot of ideas,ranging from public speaking to point of view .

                  You can also check it out my first Voki character:    https://www.voki.com/site/pickup?scid=15976416&chsm=ee122da88c7d94cd81011fb505c54416                      

Meet Socrative By Mastery Connect

Your tool for fun and effective formative assessment

Socrative enables you to engage and assess students on any device and operating system during class.All the activities visualize student answers in real time and provides detailed reports for afterwards.Directly from your teacher dashboard ,you can launch all types of assessments:
-Start a quiz
-Do a quick question or polling activity
- Play a fun space race game
-Doing out of the door exit ticket

Socrative is simple and flexible ,and best of all,it works on almost any web or app enabled device.Properly implemented, this assessment tool allows teachers to create rich quiz type content and engage all students through quick formative assessment questions or healthy team competitions.It is a great tool to assess learning in the moment or spark conversations because there's so much flexibility in how teachers structure questions ,answers and explanations. Teachers can adjust settings so that students can see percentages on the screen instead of individual responses ;students who are reluctant to raise their hands in class will appreciate the chance to respond digitally and anonymously.

Using Socrative as a starting place,teachers can foster effective communication skills by encouraging students to think critically  and debate answers in a respectful and meaningful way.Also ,the tools hs the capability to align each questions to a Common Core standard.You can measure student learning with printable reports ,but to see long term data of students over time,you will need to put in the time to aggregate separate reports into one.Now i will share how to form a quiz in Socrative below :

          Also, you can glance at my quiz that I formed via this       platform:https://b.socrative.com/teacher/#import-quiz/43817553

First Podcast

Hello everyone, I am here with my first podcast that may help you to be informed about Direct Method. I hope you like it. 

Experience of Second Life

Hi everyone, Today i met with virtual world called Second Life that made me fascinated. I heard this virtual game from my lecturer then i tried. The possibilities in second life are endless and the world really does try it’s best to let you do whatever you want. It can be simple like going to a café and taking a stroll in the park to riding a dragon ,meeting with new people , wearing whatever you want.. You are able to shape the world around you. Building and creating is one of the many factors that affect the world of Second Life. However one thing I disliked about these tools were that it may be too complex for beginners but Second Life is definitely you should experience :)