Quizlet

I'm sure almost everyone who reads my blog knows something about this app. It is similar to Kahoot but it is way more functional. In this app, you can easily find terms and their elaborate definitions you are looking for and the sweetest part is that it prepares exercises such as flashcards, tests, spelling, writing, matching and gravity games all by itself!

If you are wondering what it's like, then I'm leaving a Quiz for you. (Actually prepared it for myself for the horrific forthcoming SLA final)

Podcast

Hello civilized primates. I'd like to share my first podcast which is about a stuff related to the history of English language. Hope you'll find it useful!

Thinglink

Hello dear mammals with superior-high intelligence. Today I learned about an in-image interaction tool named Thinglink. In this app you can create images, videos, 360° images. The best part is that it is very easy to use. Teachers can collect a lot of materials about a subject on a single image and students can easily benefit from that. I prepared a work about William Blake from the English Literature course.

Kahoot!

Hello people! First of all, I want to tell that I have always hated quiz tests for my entire education life until recently. This year, I learned about an app named Kahoot from my teachers at my college. It is a game-based learning platform. Even we, grown up people, enjoyed from it, I cannot imagine how elementary and high school students would react to this. Even though I'm not a fan of competitive-based learning, a short Kahoot quiz could be fun towards the end of a lesson.

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Before finishing, I would like to show you a basic Kahoot quiz that I prepared as an example.

Gaming and Education

As we all know, the fallacy that gaming interferes children's school lives and their achievements has been going around for years. However, as the educational sides of video games have been realized, this point of view has changed. In terms of ELT, Role Playing Games (RPG) such as Skyrim, Fallout NV, The Witcher 3 can be beneficial for the language education of the high school students. (as these games contain violence) In these games, they can assume the roles of their characters in a fictional setting. There is nearly no doubt that they will immediately be attracted to those charming virtual worlds and in order to communicate with the NPCs (Non-player characters) and to complete the quests, they have to know English. Back in my high school years, I always used to look up the words, phrases, sentences that I didn't know in the online dictionary when I was playing RPG. That helped me improve my English level so much. RPGs also make you creative, problem solver since there are puzzles, challenging creatures that you have to go through to progress. Plus, you can solve conflicts by diplomacy with your speech skills instead of resorting to the use of force and to provide your character's needs you need to improve your trading skills and learn how to manage your money. Before the end, in addition to RPGs, there are also another gaming genres that can be useful in education such as strategy games (EU4, Age of Empires), survival games (Minecraft, Don't Starve) etc. Ultimately, we can say that students can improve their English level and enjoy at the same time by playing RPGs and also can acquire some other skills present in the real life.

In Skyrim, you can create your character's physical features

In Fallout: New Vegas, you can draw your character's path

Udemy and My Certificate

Udemy is an online learning platform featuring 80,000+ video courses taught by expert instructors. Although most of the courses are need to be paid to be accessed, they are reasonably priced and there are free ones too. Here is my certificate from a free Udemy course:

Mindmeister

Creating mind maps helps us to learn better. But creating them by hand without visuals is primitive now in this tech era. Mindmeister is an app where teachers can prepare a map for teaching a subject and also students can use do the same for studying.

I prepared a simple one