Vidcast

Vidcast is the video version of the Podcast. Just like podcasts, it is constant and on a subject. You can broadcast the vidcast on any platform, including youtube. Like podcasts, vidcasts can be on any topic and can last any time. Some are ongoing film students or independent filmmakers' projects. They can be dramatic, funny, fact-based, or news-related. Some offer video walkthroughs of how to use certain products or how to do something. Using Vidcast, you can learn languages in a very fun way, just like podcasts, for more information read my article about the podcast. 

Using Pixton

 Pixton is a website that allows teachers and students to create their own comics. There are various comic layouts, countless character and background options, and a host of creative options. It is a tool that allows students to build their own knowledge and demonstrate it in a way that is meaningful to them by allowing it. By using Pixton, you can explain the subject you want to teach to your students in a fun way and make the lesson more efficient.

Using Storybird

 Storybird is a website where you can write your own books. You can use your own creativity and write a book however you want. It is a very useful application from an educational point of view. If you sign up as a teacher, you create your first class by specifying your class name and class level. As a teacher, you can create books or follow the progress of your students. Your students sign up with their own accounts and log into the class with their class code.

Mindmeister

 Mindmeister is a mind map making application with unlimited content, where you can easily make any mind map you want. Making a mind map is very helpful in explaining and understanding a subject, and thanks to Mindmeister, you can turn any subject into a mind map with your style. Below I am posting some mind map photos I made using Mindmeister.

Language Teaching with Podcast

 Podcast is very popular nowadays. Because people are so busy, they can listen to podcasts in the background while they do their work, so it's pretty common and useful. The use of podcasts in language teaching can be done very easily. Today, me and my friend Eslem made a podcast broadcast and talked about how language teaching is carried out using podcasts, what advantages it has. You can reach our podcast from the link below.

https://soundcloud.com/hilal-yi-it-35815873/teaching-language-with-podcast

Using ThinkLink

 By using ThingLink, you can make training more interesting. You can turn an image, video or 360-degree VR capture into a learning experience. It allows adding icons or 'tags' to the media. For example, using it, you take a 360-degree view of a kitchen and write the names of each item there. In the lesson, you teach those items and teach an interactive lesson with your students. Watch the video below to learn more about ThinkLink and how to use it. 

WHAT IS VR AND AR?

 Virtual Reality (VR) refers to computer technologies that use reality headsets, such as realistic sounds, images, that replicate a real environment or create an imaginary world. VR is a way to immerse users in a completely virtual world. Today, the field of use of VR is quite wide, for example, it is used in simulations for pilots, in computer games or in entertainment centers. While learning English, the use of VR will be very productive. For example, even though students are in the classroom, they can go to a virtual airport using VR glasses and discuss any topic about "travel" there. It will be a fun and productive lesson for the student. By clicking the link below, you can visit and examine a website created Virtual Reality environment.

https://www.shindiristudio.com/vr-apps/vr-virtual-airport-tour/

Augmented Reality (AR) is a live, direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are complemented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics. AR uses your current reality and adds to it using some kind of device. It is placing digital content in the environment through the camera. Using AR in language teaching is also very beneficial. For example, you are going to teach a word, but students may not know what that word means. Instead of showing a photo of it, you can act and teach interactively with students as if that object were in the classroom.

Using Duolingo

 There are hundreds of apps on the internet for learning languages right now. The most well-known among them are; Mondly, Busuu, Memrise and Duolingo. As someone who has used duolingo for a long time, I will give information about it in this article. I've been using Duolingo since 2017. When I first started using it, I was using it for English, but after I developed English, it started to turn to different languages. I'm currently trying to learn Spanish and French on Duolingo. A very successful app to teach the basics of any language. After all, after I learned the basics from there, I put them into practice in my life. Now let me give you some information about how the application works. When you enter the application, you choose the language you want to learn. If your language is Turkish and you want to use the application in Turkish, you can only learn English, German or Italian, but if you want to use the language of the application in English, you can access almost all languages. If you want, you can start learning from the beginning, if you want and if you have knowledge about the language you will learn, you can take a small quiz and measure your level and continue learning from where you know. There are also duels in the App, and you can enter into duels with your own friends or with other people online if you want, and you can enter into duels about who will learn more languages ​​that week. In addition, as you learn the language, you earn points, and you climb to the top in the race with the people who learn that language. It's a pretty fun app. If you want an application where you can learn a foreign language from your phone, you can use Duolingo.

Using Kahoot

 Using Kahoot, I have an interactive lesson with my students in class. It is very easy to use Kahoot when all students use devices such as computers and tablets, especially during online education. I give a pin code to my students and they use that pin to switch to the area where the questions are. Then they are given a few seconds and questions that I have prepared in turn. They're also fun and competitively solving.

Using Canva

 Using Canva, you can create photos, videos or a variety of materials not only in education but also in many fields. But the field I used was education and I prepared personal certificates for my students who are still in primary school. Thus, when they come to the blackboard and make a presentation or present something, they will get a result that will appreciate them and keep them motivated at the end of the presentation.

Here is the template part of Canva. From this option, you can select the category you want and see the templates.

Here is an example of a certificate I prepared for my students.

Using Quizlet

 

By using the application called Quizlet, I can reinforce with my students after the lesson. I upload the words of the subject we have learned to the quizlet and then I share the link with my students. Thus, they repeat the words they have learned. Below is a link to a quizlet exercise I used.

https://quizlet.com/_9wwfrc?x=1qqt&i=3qu7hf

Using Seesaw

 Seesaw is a platform such as edmodo or google classroom where you can create classes with your students and give them content and assignments. You can see what's going on from the start date of the lesson, check the progress of your students, and assign various activities to them. Here I sent a project to my students and the content of the project is to prepare a poster. While I was posting this project, I also sent examples from the "add template" section in the activity section, so that students can visualize the framework in their minds before preparing their posters.

Using Animaker

 Animaker is a unique app to teach my students the lesson in a fun way. Compared to other animation apps, Animaker is also very easy to use. You create an animation on any subject you want. While creating, customize everything from the color of the characters' hair to the tone of their voices. I am sharing with you the video I made while teaching the prefer pattern to my students.

Using Nearpod

Nearpod is the most useful of the apps I've ever used. After you open an account as a teacher, you can prepare a lot of content for your students. For example, you can do lessons or make videos for lessons (similar to edpuzzle). But the part that I like the most is the activity preparation part for your students. I prepared a small matching activity for my students. English words are matched with their Turkish equivalents. You can access and review the images and link of my activity below.

https://share.nearpod.com/4DaZvvvKMgb