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 Hello everyone, I will introduce you Second Life. Second Life is an online environment created by Linden Lab, a company based in  San Francisco . Second Life is an online world in which residents create virtual representations of themselves, called   avatars , and interact with other avatars, places or objects. Second Life isn't just a fancy chat room, residents can do much more than communicate with one another. For one thing, they can contribute to the world around them, creating buildings, objects or even   animations . Resident additions to the virtual world are called   user-generated content , and this content is one of the factors that makes Second Life such a unique online environment.  In Second Life, residents can go to social gatherings, live concerts, press conferences and even college classes. They can do a lot of things you can do in real life  buy land, shop for clothes and gadgets or just visit with friends. They can also do things tha...

Hello everybody, I have participated in  ''Write Professional E-mails in English'' course on Coursera which is a Moocs platform. Moocs accounts for '' Massive Open Online Courses''. You can see my participation certificate below.

 Hello everybody, today I will introduce you Nearpod. What is Nearpod? Nearpod is an online student engagement tool which is a great resource for teachers'  use in class to help students learn because it allows the teacher to give students questions like open-ended ones where you type the response, or the answers can be published in drawings where the students can actually draw on Nearpod to show their work in writing or drawings if they need to. Nearpod lets students to gather in one classroom, and each one is in their own personal space where their teacher can give them feedback on their answers. It also allows students to see others’ responses on these online boards where each student writes a response and can review their peers’ responses on that online board, as well. Why to use Nearpod? By using Nearpod, you can give quick feedbacks to your students. You can work on Nearpod whenever/wherever you want as long as you have Internet connection. It can be used to include your...

 Hello everyone! Let's see one of the helpful noticeboard tools: Padlet! What is Padlet? Padlet is a digital tool that can help teachers and students in class by offering a single place for a notice board. It  is a place where you can create a single or multiple walls that contain all the posts you want to share. From videos and images to documents and audio, it is literally a blank slate. It's collaborative, too, allowing you to involve your students, as well. Via Padlet, you can announce assignments, exams, start a discussion and many else activities. Why to use Padlet? It gives teachers the chance to create announcements, assignments and discussions. It is free up to 1 months but if you do not want to pay, you can sign up with different accounts and get your 30 days trial. It allows students and teachers to keep in touch even out of classroom. Teachers can receive and arrange assignment submissions on a single platform as students can submit their homeworks to the post. It ...

 Hello everyone! We will look at a useful organizer tool: Trello! What is Trello? Trello  is a collaboration tool letting you organize your projects into boards. On a layout,  Trello  shows you what's in process, who's working on what, and where something is in a process. Think of a white board which is full of lists of cards, with each note as a task, announcement, text or image for you and your team.  Why to use Trello? Trello is free for everyone seeking for an organizer tool. Who is working on what can be seen by everyone. It is very easy to use. You can reach your boards from everywhere and everytime if you have Internet connection on your devices. You can change the appearance of your board. Here , you can see my Trello board: Here is the link for the Trello board that I've created. You can gain deeper information about educational tools by visiting my board. You should login to your own Trello account to see my public board. https://trello.com/...

 Hi everyone, today, I would like to introduce you Flipgrid. What is Flipgrid? Flipgrid  is a website that allows teachers to create grids to make video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can ask questions or start discussions, called topics and their students can create and send video responses that appear in the grid display.   Why to use Flipgrid? It offers students experience online discussions. It can help students improve their speaking and listening skills. Teachers can watch their students' recordings many times. It proves that online education can be carried out everywhere. You can see some pictures of my Flipgrid account below. Here is the link directing you to the topic I created. If you want to gain more information about Flipgrid, you can watch the video below.

  The educational technologies have developed with the advent of Web 2.0 tools. These tools let students and teachers create, change and share their content for their learning adventure. Web 2.0 also creates a cycle of information sharing, thus people can learn and teach through their social networks. These social networks mainly form as a result of the interaction between learners and mentors via channels like Wikipedia, blogs, podcasts and Youtube, etc. People can comment on their peers' contents and link to each other. These Web 2.0 tools have made learners work in groups more. Regarding users of Internet are mostly young people, these young learners can collaborate on works and it is more engaging and attractive to them. However, some experts are in the opinion that Internet can have much information which is not filtered and which may not be trustworthy. Scholars criticizing the intensive use of technology in education think that students may not be able to decide whether the ...