Instructional Technologies

We started our lesson by recalling what we did in previous weeks; technologies to use while practicing reading (e.g. Storyweaver, CommonLit ), writing (e.g. Padlet, OneNote ), vocabulary (e.g. Kahoot, Quizziz ), etc. Then went on with this week's topic: Oral Communication Skills and How to Develop them with Technology During our lesson, we observed many websites. Some of which are below; - Google Podcasts: The website where you can try Google's feature with thousands of podcasts - Castos: A website to produce your own podcast or listen to one - Voki: A website where the narrator can form a character and make it talk - Powtoon: Website to generate animations - Vyond: Website to make animation videos - EdPuzzle: Website to prepare interactive videos - YouGlish: Website that shows the word used in context (in videos) - VoScreen: Website to study language by doing activities from movie/series scenes. Example of an exercise is down below [Picture 5] - Elllo: Website that give...

We started our lesson by joining Mr. Karacan's padlet  presentation. Like we do every week, we started by reviewing our previous lessons' topics; Web 1.0 - 2.0 - 3.0, the statistics we discussed in week 2, etc. While reviewing our former lessons we also analyzed padlet  and learned about what does it do + how to use it. We examined the site and a presentation made for 4th graders. After that, we went on with Google Docs and checked the interactivity by writing a story 😀. The other sites/applications we checked during the lesson are listed below: - Dropbox Paper :  A website/application that can be shared with others and work as a group by writing simultaneously. - Slack: An interactive software - Evernote/OneNote/Notion: Applications students & teachers can use to take notes. After these, we checked websites that help with  Automated Writing .  We tried Grammarly and checked  ProWritingAid, LangaugeToo . Apparently, these websites/extensions/appl...

 At the beginning of the lesson, we briefly talked about our previous lessons and summarised the topics. Then, we went on with this week's topic; how to teach reading with online platforms? During the lesson, we observed many internet sites which will help with online reading. Some of which are; - Rapid Translator: A chrome extension that immediately translates the target word. - digitallibrary.io: Can be used as an e-library - storyweaver: An e-library that has books in different levels - Scholastic: A publishing house which has its books as an e-book on it site - raz-kids: A kids' book library with interactive books - common.lit: A website with articles and e-books - readworks.org: An e-library that also has games and activities in it. This week's lesson was quite informative and beneficial. I've checked the sites myself and will definitely use them in my daily life!