Learning English with Second Life

My friends and I met in the application called Second life and discussed how we can learn English using that application.

SOCIAL NETWORKING AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL

 Using social networking as an educational tool will take education a huge step forward.  What is meant here is not to leave students alone with technology in lessons.  It is also to benefit from technology while training.  Students contribute to their education both personally and socially by using Web 2.0 tools similar to that application, just as we did by using the "Blogger" application.  He improves himself personally and researches as he writes, adds new information to his knowledge.  In social terms, by sharing what they know with other people, it also leads the society to progress.

Whether or not using Web 2.0 tools works well in education is entirely up to the educator.  How the educator guides students to use the application and how the educator uses those tools affects the outcome of the training. Also, students keep in touch with each other, which supports them in terms of both motivation and learning.

“Cooperation is the watchword, not control. Web 2.0 applications work on the basis of participation not coercion.”(Mason and Rennie, 2008).

Here is the blog addresses belonging to my friends, you can take a look at these addresses and get the more and clear information about the issues I am missing.

Halil Üneş: http://halilunes.blogspot.com/

Ali Efe Duymuş: http://iucmaterials.blogspot.com/

Eslem Gülümseyen: https://englishnowandlater.blogspot.com/

Büşranur Kaya: https://bnurkaya21.blogspot.com/

Esra Acar: https://esraacars.blogspot.com/

Using Voki

 Voki is a free space where you can create a variety of videos. While dealing with the subject of occupations with my students, I created separate videos of each profession using Voki.  Then I recorded these videos and showed them to my students. Thus, both the videos belong to me, and my students are students of their occupations with my sentences. I put some of the occupation videos links I created using voki below.

Eliza- the Student

https://tinyurl.com/yj8alkm8 

Eva- the Doctor

https://tinyurl.com/yhe4z54e

Using Padlet

 In this lesson, we used the application called Padlet to brainstorm with my students. Padlet is a digital board application where you can fill an empty wall with the contents you want. I opened a board and shared its link with my students. Students also logged into the application with a link on google, and in the Friends unit, we brainstormed what features a good friend should have. Students also added their ideas and desired photos to the board.

Using Jamboard

 

In this activity, using Jamboard, I present an activity in the textbook to students by transferring it online and making it more interesting. When we teach on Zoom, I link them to the activity on Jamboard, and they log in via their drives and can mark up the activity. Thus, instead of a boring and plain education, we spend a lesson in which the student interacts.

Using Edpuzzle

Using edpuzzle, I reinforced the simple past tense I taught my students. Edpuzzle measures the learning level of students with questions hidden in videos, and students do a more fun activity instead of boring homework. There are 12 multiple choice questions in this video and 1 open-ended question at the end of the video, but the questions are not challenging for students. I took the draft video and removed a few questions and added open-ended questions.Students cannot progress through the video unless they answer the question.

You can also access my Edpuzzle assignment with link in the below.

 https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/608be660cec4a8415a2b7fc8/watch

Using Pear deck

 By using Pear deck, I make the presentations I make in the lessons interactive with the student. Thus, the lessons are no boring and not just narrated. It is placed between the slides where necessary or when I see the students get bored, with the interactive slides, the student answers the questions and participates in the lesson. In this presentation, I prepared slides for the friendship topic and created areas where they can answer and write.