Life Long Process Of Education

Hi everyone! As you can see from the title, we are going to examine St orybird!  Storybirds  are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. It is a fun, collaborative, storytelling website. In the website, they are not giving you a blank white paper to write. They create their own concepts. That's why it's so easy to start with Storybird. If you want to improve your writing skills but you don't know how to do this, Storybird is a good start for you and for your education. Inside the website they have tutors and they speak about how to write your own versions. It is really helpful to see some teacher about this subject.  Storybird  was designed to allow children to work with parents and friends in creating art-inspired stories to share and save. I want to say that even though it looks like it was created for children, it has many features. Improves your writing skills Explores your creativity It makes you inspired with a lot of conc...

Welcome back! Today, we started the day by downloading hot potatoes to our computer. Hot Potatoes  is a freeware for creating quizzes. In this application, you can create multiple-choice and short-answer questions (JQuiz), matching exercices (JMatch), ordering exercices (JMix), crossword (JCross) and gap-fill exercices (JCloze). Quizzes created with HotPot can be imported into the iCorsi3 platfor m .  Learners are allowed to work with the exercises on line, in groups or by themselves in such a way that they get engaged in a new, interesting and funny learning experience.  Feedback can be provided for right and wrong answers, as well as a hint in the form of single letters, which appear one at the time, according to student´s request. The JQuiz also gives a score which is lowered if several hints letters were requested.  Although it does not have an aesthetic graphics like other applications, we can say that it is a very useful application . The ...

Hi everyone! We have another tool, Padlet!  Padlet  is an application to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic.   The user can post text, videos and images from a mobile device or a desktop. One of the great appeals of Padlet for classroom use is the fact that many people can post to the same board at the same time, making it very suitable for collaborative work and the creation of projects.  Use a Padlet to collaborate in collecting ideas and brainstorming. For example, the picture below shows a board where students were asked to post images that they associated with consumerism. Homework and assignments from different students can be put together if you ask learners to use the same Padlet board to post text, images, videos and audio when they get home.  After numerous works, your board becomes an 'idea bin' that is full of your students and yours ideas. You can use it outside the classroom as well. At wee...

As you know by now, tools are great ways for tea cher's to express themselves. It is very important in learning and we are back with our Tools Series! Today we will examine Pixton!  Pixton  is a cartoon creation tool that allows its users to create awesome comics.   A nyone 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. You can create comics that looks just like you and other creatures. It is very comprehensive. There are  dinosaurs,dragons,aliens etc. It is a free application but if you are saying that you will be using this application very often, you can upgrade your membership. Pixton offers a service designed specifically for schools called Pixton for Schools  which is not free. This service enables teachers to create private rooms for their students in which th...

I'm here again to show you helpful tools. This one is one of my favorite and its really fun. It is Voki !   Voki  is an educational tool that allows users to create their very own talking character.  Voki  characters can be customized to look like historical figures, cartoons, animals, and even yourself! In free version, you don't have a lot of characters and visuals but that's okay because I think they are already amazing. The only bad thing I can say about Voki is that your t ext should be limited with 600 characters. If that's a big problem for you, you can record videos one by one and edit those videos a fter.It  is a free Web 2.0 tool .  The site features educational resources, including teacher-submitted lesson plans. Users can customize characters to resemble living people, animals and cartoons. You can record voices with your computer or your phone and if you don't want to use your own voice, they have their own sounds. They are really various. They...

I'm here again to introduce you one of my favorite educational tool: PawToon.  PowToon  is Web-based animation software that allows you to quickly and easily create animated presentations with your students by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, adding music and user created voice-overs. It is  a great learning space where entertainment and education combine together. It is a free application but if you want to have more effects and visuals, you can upgrade your membership with money. I think free one is enough to create fun and colorful animations but if you are going to use it often, I recommend that you should upgrade your membership. I think PawToon is a tool that should be used especially in the education of young children. We can create animations with them and they can see the progress. It will make them really excited for class. Because the areas of attention that they have are very limited, this method easily captures their attention...

We have a new addition to our tools family: Socrative! Socrative  is a cloud-based student response system developed in 2010 by Boston-based graduate school students. It allows teachers to create simple quizzes that students can take quickly on any device that they have (laptops,computers,smartphones,tablets)  You have 3 options to create a quiz:multiple choice, true/false, short answer. This platform helps students to learn anywhere and how they want. Every student is different and they can take the tests however they want. To some students, true or false is a good way to learn but according to some students, it makes the learning process harder and they become confused. You can keep track of your students and take notes of their progress. It makes the feedback process easier and you get to know the every individual student. I created a quiz with using the true/false technic and I enjoyed it very much.