PIXTON

Pixton is one of the best ways to create comics. You can create a comic book with different screen designs. You can also join different comic groups and meet new people, and the photos are reviewed.

                               

With Pixton

-Prepare book report or school projects in comics style

-Describe a statement or thoughts in a concise way

-Tell a story with SofaScore and pictures

-Describes subtle emotions with customizable characters

-Think comics or cartoons with humor

-Draw a film script

Key Features

-Feature library with more than 2,000 objects

-Background pre-set and grouped by themes

-Designable text, captions and speech bubbles

-Variable panel flexibility and flexible layouts

Who Can Use Pixton?

-Students and teachers for school projects

-Communication experts for visual projects

-Young people and adults looking for a new way to express themselves

-Promising web humor writers

I made my avatar in Pixton ; 

This is me :) 

ANIMATRON

Animatron is a video and animation software development company that enables businesses and individuals to create high-quality visual content with its online video making tools.

PREZI

Prezi is a new generation of web-based presentation preparation site that is animated and visually enriched cloud. The easy-to-use interface allows you to quickly create impressive slideshows that make a difference to your personal or professional needs. With Prezi, you can create and share more remarkable and fun presentations. You can access and use your presentations from anywhere on the internet by storing your presentations on their website.

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CANVA

Canva is a simplified graphic-design tool website, founded in 2012. It uses a drag-and-drop format and provides access to photographs, vector images, graphics, and fonts. It is used by non-designers as well as professionals. The tools can be used for both web and print media design and graphics.

Canva has a myriad of uses for the classroom, and here are some ways that Canva can enhance the visual aspect of your curriculum:

Posters

Newsletters

Labels

Certificates

Covers

Charts & Graphs

Infographics

Magazines & Portfolios

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THE DIRECT METHOD

The direct method of teaching, which is sometimes called the natural method, and is often (but not exclusively) used in teaching foreign languages, refrains from using the learners' native language and uses only the target language. The direct method in teaching a language is directly establishing an immediate and audiovisual association between experience and expression, words and phrases, idioms and meanings, rules and performances through the teachers' body and mental skills, without any help of the learners' mother tongue.

The direct method of teaching languages aims to build a direct way into the world of the target language making a relation between experience and language, word and idea, thought and expression rule and performance.

This method intends for students to learn how to communicate in the target language

This method is based on the assumption that the learner should experience the new language in the same way as he/she experienced his/her mother tongue without considering the existence of his/her mother tongue.

My friends and I recorded a video about the direct method, you can watch it here ;

VOKI

Voki is a very convenient app, especially for foreign language lessons. Voki is an application that allows you to create characters online and allow them to speak the text you type. Yes, The characters you create with Voki have the ability to speak texts written in many languages. In addition to the difference between men and women in every language, it is also possible to voice with different accents of the language.  With these features, Voki is a very entertaining tool for our classes.

Click here to see my example

STORYBIRD

Storybird is a free book creation site. Although the interface is in English, it is very easy to use and is a useful educational tool especially for language teachers such as Turkish, English and German. Students can read the created books; write their own books, stories, and poems. It can be enjoyful for students. If there is a projection or smartboard in the classroom, you can easily find a book from the site and read it in class. However, an account is required to create a book. One of the good things is that the teacher can open an account, create a class and invite students with a class code. Parents can even be included in the work if they wish. 

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WORDLE

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from the text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to your own desktop to use as you wish.

 

GLOGSTER

In this platform, you can create concept cartoons and digital posters by using multimedia elements such as text, graphics, audio, and video together. In addition, it can be developed by different users to access shared Glogs and original work to get ideas to uncover. Glogster is an application that will contribute to the development.

SOCRATIVE

Socrative is a tool that can give instant feedback to students by creating tests on the internet and solving them with their smartphones or tablets. Socrative is a very useful app to provide both a tutorial and a fun activity right after telling the subject. After entering the system by typing their names or even their nicknames, students can start to solve the questions by including the test opened by the teacher. At the same time, a character or icon belonging to each student progresses on the smartboard as students do it correctly. As their students see this, they get into excitement and compete. Socrative is a very nice app to include students in this respect. If you want, you can print out the tests you have prepared through Socrative and offer your students the opportunity to solve them in class. The tests you prepare with Socrative will definitely make your lessons more enjoyable. In here you can find an example https://b.socrative.com/teacher/#edit-quiz/43722336

BLACKBOARD

Blackboard is an instructional management system that allows educators to submit course materials electronically, communicate with students, and create course activities in an electronic environment. The system can support all the activities of the courses given in distance education as well as the enrichment of the courses given in the traditional campus environment with electronic content and activities. Blackboard allows users to access their course content from any computer where they have internet access and a web browser, with a unique username and password. Since it is an encrypted system, it allows users to see only the contents of the courses they have registered.

MOODLE

Moodle is an acronym for “Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment” in English. Moodle; It is a free, open-source, object-oriented, dynamic distance education system. You can reach Moodle in everywhere with your smartphones.  Moodle is an online Learning Management system that enables teachers to create a special web site for educators who want to teach anywhere, anytime. There are various benefits of Moodle. Whether you are a teacher, student or manager, Moodle can meet all your needs.

PINTEREST

Pinterest is a social platform where all kinds of visuals are shared and working with a panel system. I use Pinterest for a long time and It is very useful. You can find many different pins about education. Especially for vocabulary, it is very beneficial. Also, everyone can use easily, it is not complicated.

EDMODO

Edmodo is a "social learning platform" site for teachers, students, and parents. With Edmodo, teachers invite students by creating online classes. The group code is given, all students register and their parents can also follow the students. The teacher examines the students who send their grades to the group. Students can become part of a vibrant classroom community. Last year we used this platform, I think it is useful for homework.

QUIZLET

In Quizlet, you can create your own vocabulary sets and share them with other people. It's very useful for both students and teachers. We use Quizlet in some of our lessons and I learn from Quizlet a lot. My vocabulary improves thanks to Quizlet. Also, you can put pictures on cards and listen to pronunciation of a word. Today's children like using technology. Because of that,  Quzilet is very important and useful for teachers, especially language teachers.

In here you can look aat my Quizlet example; https://quizlet.com/tr/459741860/vocabulary-flash-cards/?new

KAHOOT

For teachers who want to capture their students, technology has become an inevitable tool. Towards the end of a course with classical methods of processing, students begin to get bored. At these times, KAHOOT may be the most suitable activity to attract students' attention, entertain them and spend more productive time. 
In our class, sometimes we use Kahoot. It is really useful and enjoyable. When we play Kahoot after the lesson, the information becomes more permanent for me. Also, I enjoy playing the Kahoot. In Kahoot you can choose your name. You don't have to use your real name, you can choose a nickname. After the game is over, some teachers award the first 3 people. This increases the motivation of the students. To conclude, Kahoot is a very useful tool for ELT. 

In here you can look at my example; https://create.kahoot.it/details/quiz/af2dae31-bda7-4c22-a373-704425759179