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PADLET.COM : Padlet is a digital post-it or a digital pool for collecting multi-format files including audio, video, text and image in one place.

CREATIVE IDEAS FOR PADLET USE IN ELT

- After or before the reading lesson, students can find example sentences related to the newly learned words and paste them to "unit vocabulary wall". This can be done collaboratively or each student can create their own "unit vocabulary wall".

- Students can record their ideas and opinions on a given topic in the lesson.

- Teachers can use padlet as a communication platform like an LMS  and can post all their announcements, lecture notes, videos etc.

- Students can create a storyboard including dialogues and images by working in groups.

- Teachers can create a wall based on a theme (environment, food, sports, politics etc.) and students can create a wall including images, videos, sounds and texts on the given theme.

- A rigorous selection of videos (
from youtube.com, ted.com, and other video sharing sites) for grammar teaching can be arranged and presented in an organized way.

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VOXOPOP.COM : Voxopop is a voice-based Web 2.O tool to help your students develop their speaking skills.

CREATIVE IDEAS FOR VOXOPOP USE IN ELT
- Teachers and students can discuss a specific topic independent from the limitations of the physical classroom environment. Shy students and those WHO do not participate the classroom discussions can also have a chance to participate.

- It can be used for developing the oral communication skills of the students.

- Teachers can give their students diologues in the written form and ask them to dictate the dialogues.

-You could assign students a series of practice conversations within the site, ask them to dictate a text for reading fluency practice or have them ask and answer each others' questions in another tongue.

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Piclit is an e-learning website that uses photographs to write and express themselves and share with other people. It is free, fun, safe and global. It can be a caption, a sentence, a story, a paragraph, a poem, a rap, a quotation, lyrics from a song, and more.

CREATİVE IDEAS FOR PICLIT USE IN ELT

1.  Piclit is a simple way of learning vocabulary in terms of using picture.

2.  Jut by signing up, students can make their own libraries and this enables them to make permanent learning.

3. This can be used as a brainstorming tool for creative writing class.

4. Students combine words with story or meaning of the picture.

5. Piclit can also be used for making a lesson plan.

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GLOGSTER

Glogster is a website devoted to self-expression and presentation of knowledge. It allows users to create glogs, which are online posters that contain text, images, and multimedia elements.

CREATIVE IDEAS FOR USING GLOGSTER IN ELT:

-Teachers can use this as a tool to display knowledge: Have students present information they've learned, allowing them to create glogs for individual or group collaboration work.

-To makes your class a Flipped Classroom

-Use ıt as a Cooperative Learning Tool

-To give  students a digital version of a one-pager assessment

-To use as an Ice Breakers in an unfamiliar class

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Scratch is a web 2.0 tool that we can use to crate games through programming in a basic way. You can make your students to crate their very own games, it is so easy. Moreover you can crate a lesson material through it. You can use countless items on it or make your own background. We see a little cat in the picture and i used the command move 10 steps if press "a". Like this example you can use other actions like turn 180 degrees or go random square

Make your lessons more enjoyable and save your time.

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Schoology is an online school which means you can be with your students anytime and anywhere!
If you have any assignment that you want for your students you can do that on schooloGY.
This tool enables the users to share resources and content.
This tool is also known as Course Management System and this can help you to create a Virtual Learning Environment which we teachers love very much.
With schooloGY your students can keep up with the news that goes around in the classroom and they can also go back and check the lessons while studying for an exam.

Check this out: https://www.schoology.com/
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MindMup is a free mind mapping tool that canbe used by teachers and students online. With it, everyone can make visiual connections between important concepts and events. You can start by creating a central idea and add child and sibling notes all over a blank canvas. Mindmups nodes can also contain text, links, pictures. Also you can enter without the need to create an account.

Mindmup can be used by students and teachers easily. We can save our MindMups to Google Drive. It is also useful for classroom and group projects because it is possible to collobrate multiple users on the same Mindmup.

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Screencast-o-matic is a free screen recording web app on Windows or Mac. It’s extremely easy to use and you don’t even need to sign up to use it. It’s a very interesting tool to create tutorials. When ready you can upload your recording directly to Youtube. Bu it also requires Java, this is one of its drawback.

HOW TO USE?
•Press the "Start Recording" button.
•A box with a dotted border will pop up.
• Select "Fullscreen"
•Press the record button to start recording.
•Press Alt + D to stop recording.
•Preview the screencast.

Here is a video recorded by me.

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https://piktochart.com : Piktochart is a  platform that makes it possible to create professional visuals even for beginners. It is all free and all you have to do is sign up and start experiencing it.There are huge range of templates and they are all very simple as it works with drag-and-drop, point-and-click style.
CREATIVE IDEAS FOR PIKTOCHART USE IN ELT
- It can be used for variety of purposes for example making presentations, creating posters, doing comparisons and much more.
- It can be a great material for teachers to visualize subjects, creating exercises and course materials.
-It can be used for teaching vocabulary.For example teachers can create a poster that shows the antonyms/synonyms of the words.
-Piktochart supports maps. So teachers can use piktochart to teach their students countries, nationalities or etc.
-By using Piktochart we can create an educative and at the same time entertaining story instead of ordinary reading passages.

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LessonWriter provides literacy and critical-thinking support for any text to help students read and understand more. LessonWriter is the only service that instantly creates personalized print, web, and mobile-ready literacy lessons any text.

You can create a new account or register with your social media accounts. After registering, you can start creating classes. While creating your classes all you have to do is paste in any text and it will  automatically generate vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, comprehension questions, word roots & stems support for your students.
Here's a quick lesson I've created on LessonWriter: http://www.lessonwriter.com/Teach/Share/148572

CREATIVE IDEAS FOR LESSONWRITER USE IN ELT:

LessonWriter is a tool for teachers. Teachers can create lessons and activities to generate vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, comprehension questions, word roots & stems for their students as i said earlier.

Teachers can manage classes curriculum differentiation groups, grading and student reports.

Teachers can share, collaborate, and communicate with colleagues to make better lessons.

There are 3 modes (Express, Standard, and Detailed). If you need a lesson in less than a minute, Express will deliver complete lesson and lesson plan quickly. With Standard mode, LessonWriter choosses the literacy support components (vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, roots and stems), and it is up to you to design and select the graphic organizers and comprehension questions. In Detailed mode, you will have the opportunity to make all the selections. Detailed mode allows the greatest control over differentiation, as you can even assign components and tasks by differentiation group.

Teachers can always edit any portion of the lesson to add, delete or change the content.

Teachers can make a class based on not only text but a video and make an activity with flash cards and question lists.

Teachers can communicate, share and get ideas from other teachers and their classes.

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Quizalize is a quiz game platform like Kahoot and Proprofs.
It faciliates assessment in class.
Quizalize lets you engage your class and deliver instant assessments for personalised learning on any computer, tablet or smartphone.
It helps you quickly identify the strengths, weaknesses and learning gaps via real-time focusing and give feedbacks one on one.
You don't need to spend money on handouts and so it's a cheap way of teaching and also learning.
You can create lots of different type of questions from gap filling to essay writing.

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http://www.spellingcity.com : SpellingCity (Or VocabularySpellingCity) is a site for creating, as the name implies, vocabulary and spelling games. The site has an external application for iPhone/iPad, but it is not required.

There are many type of activities that you can use with every word. Since the website itself is created for ELT, I feel like there is no need to go over creative ideas. I’ll go over the games briefly. The only drawback I can say about the site is that it limits your maximum students for free users. Best part is the site requires minimal effort from teacher to set up. Only thing you do is create a word list.

Phonics games can be summarized as the games that improve students pronounciation. This type of games usually require students to hear the word, and match a part of the pronounciation of that word with another word.

[PH] Sound It Out! is a game that allows students to practice phonemes, by clicking the sound blocks in the right order to spell out a word.

[PH] TeachMe More allows students to explore more on spelling, syllables, sounds, context in a sentence, definition and the part of speech.

[PH] Initial/Final Sound Speller (They are two different games) Students choose the missing initial/final sound that correctly spells each word.

[PH] WhichInitial/Final Sound Same game as above, but instead of sounds, students match pictures that fit the pronounciation.

[PH] SillyBulls requires students to list words in order according to the number of syllables in the word.

Tests can be summed up as, well, tests. There are two types of tests, one for spelling and one for vocabulary.

Teachsection is for teaching students new words. These activities give students words in context and creates fun activities for them.

There are 12 spelling activities. They range from games like Hangman to Who Wants to be a Millionaire type games. There are additional 5 games for vocabulary exercises.

All of these games do not require any set up, other than creating a word list. And you can easily assign assignments to students, and keep track of them.

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Kahoot is a free online platform for creating and running learning games. It can be used to create multiple-choice questions with embedded pictures and videos.
In English classes we can use Kahoot in many creative and fun ways.
-Creating true/false or yes/no questions.
-Asking grammar knowledge
-Creating quiz that tests students' synonym, antonym... knowledge.
-Creating textbook based quizes.
-Creating trivia any subject you want. (That may be even a brochure)

When assessing students, we as teachers can use Kahoot also.Rather than classical ways of assesment, this kind of it is much better.

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Backchannel Chat is a website in which teachers can create chat rooms to make online discussions among students.  Terachers simply create theirr own chat room and wait for students to attend. Once they attended, teacher can record the discussion, see the results and evaluate the answers at home. Also teaacher can control the discussion and delete the unwanted parts of the discussion or change them. Locking the chat room helps teachers to see the dicussion anytime they want.
It is an effective way to increase active discussion participation in class and adds to student's knowledge.

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Linoit: Linoit is an online platform on which so many people can write or share (photo, video, document) something.
Creative ideas to use Linoit in ELT:
First of all, in order to use linoit, students do not have to sign up. So it makes it easier to use. Also it can be regulates as 'everyone can post' or 'just see'.
It can be used for class discussions or brainstorming.
Maybe after classes we ask each student to write an example about the subject that was learned at that class on Linoit board.
Or it can be used as an exit ticket, studentswill write about what they learned.
They can use it to prepare their homeworks.
Ot the teacher use it to teach some subjects.

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InstaGrok is a visual search engine and interactive learning tool collects educational content and displays it in the form of a web of related words.                                                                                                                           InstaGrok in the classroom:                                                  1. Students can use the handy slider tool to self select the level of difficulty of the results displayed  which provides them with access usable information.

2. It offers a variety of multimedia features to meet the unique learning needs of students.                                                                                              3. It could be a great tool for project work.  Students type in any topic and the tool generates a 'GROK' which is a type of mind-map with all related topics.  You can then simplify and personalize your Grok by adding pins, eliminating unwanted info, creating personal notes, etc...

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classkick.com

ClassKick is an application that you can use at any class level, allowing you to prepare interactive course material for your students.

CREATIVE IDEAS FOR CLASSKICK USE IN ELT

- Worksheets or slides you created can be used by students freely, they can do whatever they want with the material, and you can observe their work simultaneously which helps you to give feedback right away.

- Students can record audios on the material you will design, so, to provide them word lists and want students to read them all in recording can make the students' pronunciation get better. The text you provide in the slide may also be a question to be answered by students in order for them to improve their speaking skills.

- For preclass usage, to prepare slides that contain entertaining video links, eye-catching pictures or a song that could be admired by students, may remove the fear of the upcoming boring class or topic, and help students come to the class with extra motivation.

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Jeopardylabs

Jeopardy Labs is a free service you can use to create your own online Jeopardy game. Jeopardy labs provides a blank template on which to build your game. You do not need to register in order to build your own game. However, if you want to be able to edit your game at a later point you will need to create a password before you create your game. When completed your game is given its one unique url. When you post that url on your blog, wiki, or website, anyone can play your game.

Creative Ideas to use JeopardyLabs in ELT
Jeopardy Labs provides a good way for teachers to create a review game that students can play independently or in the classroom.
Using this tool, we can create a competition atmosphere that students can reinforce what they learnt and also have fun.
After teaching a topic we can create a quiz on jeopardy lab and understand if they have any troubles with the subject.
We could also have students create games that they share with each other.

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Classbadges is a site where you can give your students badges. It is a great way of motivating your students during the classes. Because if you give them badges like ''hardworking student'' this will encourage them to get involved in the activities during the lessons.

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ProProfs.com
ProProfs.com provides online and smart tools that are including quiz, survey, knowledge base, flashcards, brain games and training tools.

CREATİVE IDEAS FOR PROPROFS USE IN ELT

To make formative and periodic assessments, we can use the feature of free online quiz maker.
In advanced english language teaching classes, after teaching idioms or collocations, we can prepare an online quiz to assess students.
In junior class, teacher may create a crossword for students about colours or animal at the end of lesson.
Teacher can create a scramble play for high school students before the lesson.
Also, you could create flashcards for kids to start as warm-up activities.
For group-working and brain-storming works, it can be used for pre-task to ease learning.

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By using Puzzlemaker, you can create different types of puzzles that are enjoyable for students.

You can use the puzzles as quizzes or evaluation for your lectures. It is also possible for teachers to give the puzzle as an entertaining homework which will make learning easier. Students can also create their own puzzles to retain the new-learnt vocabulary items.

BURAK AY

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WORDPRESS
Wordpress is a web 2.0 tool that is online and open source website creation. It allows you to create your website -blog- and publish your writings.

CREATIVE IDEAS FOR WORDPRESS USE IN ELT
- As a teacher you can ask students to create their website and write - as a blog- the topics, activities that they learned from the lecture weekly.

- Wordpress helps students in terms of developing their writing skills. Also creating a blog and writing on it are much more fun than handing out the essays or summaries to the teacher as a traditional way.

- Students can continue to write their blog apart from the lesson and it gives students a chance to express their opinions.

- Read by other people motivates students, even with a bit effort, students can achieve lots of people via their websites.

- Wordpress also gives students chance to read and follow other people's articles and it gives students broader perspective.

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Thinglink
Thinkglink is a web 2.0 tool that helps you create visual materials by turning images into multimedias. You can add links,videos even voice records.

Creative Ideas
- Use Thinglink before the lesson and give brief information about the subject, let students make advanced preparation.

- Use Thinglink in order to highlight the subject and important words.

-  Make students create materials on Thinglink, give feedback about their work.

- Give students homework on Thinglink and ask them create some Thinglinks about each other or a subject,make them add voice records,ask them to present their work.

- Create a quiz with images, create interactive word lists, add pronunciations and related links.

-Both you and the students can create an interactive report about the subject by adding voice records to underline specific information or give a link to a Google Docs in order to create discussion or for feedback. Information links and videos can also be added.

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Aurasma is HP Autonomy’s augmented reality platform. Aurasma has an image recognition technology and with your devices’ camera you can realize images as 3D living pictures.
With this tool, especially on lower ages and levels, we can establish an environment that combines learning with living images. For example, if we want to teach a verb we can find an Aurasma image that does the verb we want to teach, we can just embed that living picture to the platform for students to see and understand it.

KEREM ESE

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Game Salad is a game creation application. There are some pictures or little images you can add and also some background drawings available. Useful for teaching vocabulary. Students can simply hop on to the application page and develop a game for themselves or their classmates to play. It is better if teacher helps students to create engaging and motivating games which focus on teaching specific topic or topics.

KEREM ESE

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What is augmented reality?
Augmented reality is the integration of digital information with the user's environment in real time. Unlike virtual reality, which creates a totally artificial environment, augmented reality uses the existing environment and overlays new information on top of it.

How does it work?
Using a mobile application, a mobile phone's camera identifies and interprets a marker, often a black and white barcode image. The software analyses the marker and creates a virtual image overlay on the mobile phone's screen, tied to the position of the camera. This means the app works with the camera to interpret the angles and distance the mobile phone is away from the marker.

How can I use the AR in classroom?
I can use augmented reality in the classroom in order to  create interactive assignments that includes moving through the campus as well as nearby place.

Homework: While scanning the student homework page; they can see the video of their teachers assisting them in solving a problem.

Photo Wall: Display the photographs of the faculty or teacher at the display board. Students can scan the image and get all the information related to their teacher. It helps them to know about their teachers well.

Book Review: By scanning the cover image of a particular book, students can get the overview of that particular book.

Deaf Students: Using AR technology flashcard of vocabulary, students can see the video of that demonstrates how to sign a phrase or word.

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Storybird is a tool which enables students to create poems, short picture stories or visual books.

-The advantage that Storybird provide is the image prompt can be chosen by the teacher or learners to begin brainstorming right on the page since it can be edited as many times as necessary.
-Colorful visual support will boost the learning motivation and students will be more engaging with the tasks.
-Students will be able to work freely on the tasks.
-They can use new-learnt phrases, words or grammar structures in authentic texts and sentences that they compose.
-Storytelling has a huge significance on teaching and students in ELT. That's why, with this tool teachers and students can create their own stories and students can learn from them.
-Creating stories or poems will engage students to use their creativity and imagination. So, each student can work individually or collaboratively, making brainstorming and having discussion on the work. It will enable them to create something belong to them.
-This tool is based on art. Although there may be some students who doesn't like art, most students will appreciate the colorfulness and vivid structure of the tool because visual items provided by the tool will make the learning more permanent.
-While writing poems, scattered words are dragged and combined together, making a meaningful verse. Students can work on their vocabulary and grammar competence while being accompanied by the lovely emotions of art.

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LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
edmodo.com : Edmodo is a social network for classrooms. It gives teacher and student a chance to use a simple and easy to understand platform.

Ideas for classroom usage and pros
1-It makes homeworks and projects quite easy there is no saying I haven't heard the homework anymore.
2-Late notices are not that crucial anymore (read this research article for tomorrow).

3-Teachers can store the teaching materials online.
4-It also has a education app store called Edmodo Store for more interested individuals.
5-You can reach the students way easier than any mail group.
6-Tests and assignments can be issued right on the webpage to be solved or done in designated time periods.
7-It gives the student a way to resubmit their assignment before the deadline if something doesn't sit well with them after doing it.
8-One can use a really effective online syllabus technique on it.

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Popplet is a tool that allows students or others to visualize and organize their ideas. Teachers and students can create graphics, timelines or other forms of  visual organization by using it. Popplet helps students think and learn visually and students can engage other thoughts. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships between them.

How can teachers or students use popplet in their teaching/learning ?
- First of all, teachers can use it when they're teaching vocabulary. They can prepare vocabulary schemes. It lets us add some picture so it makes schemes more enjoyable.
- They can prepare  grammar schemes, too. With the help of schemes, they can organize tenses and they can show students the link between the grammar structures.
- Theachers  or students can prepare timelines for reading passages, too. For example, students are supposed to read a passage about industrial revolution, but it is complicated because of historical background. However, by using Popplet, they can easily organize a timeline, which shows the historical background, for the passage and understand it.

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Socrative is a free online platform that can be used for assessing students. With Socrative the teachers can easily engage students, motivate them and receive feedback. Teachers can create quizzes with;
-multiple-choice
-true/false
-short answer
Also, they can use this platform;
-as a warm-up activity before the lesson.
-as an activity to reinforce what have been taught during the lesson.
-as an assessment after the lesson.
-as a survey.

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Synap is an easy tool where you can create your online multiple choice question quizzes.

-Theachers can create private classrooms to share their quizzes with their students.
-This tool knows what you are studying and reccomends you other quizzes to try.
-Both students and teachers can use this tool the create their own quizzes.
-With Synap, you can practice as many as you want.
-You can publish and share your quiz whenever you want.
-Synap has a mobile app for ios, so you can learn anytime and anywhere with Synap.

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Create, practice and share Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) online for free with Synap. Over 20,000 quizzes available, and content from Oxford University Press

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BLENDSPACE.COM: is a platform where you can create digital lessons.

CREATIVE IDEAS FOR BLENDSPACE USE IN ELT

You can use presentations, videos and pictures for your lesson for any kind of subject,

You can create quizes about the topic you taught and analyze your student's understanding,

You can open discussions to monitor students while having them share ideas and learn from each other,

By using a digital lesson platform, you can attact student's interest making a course more fun and interactive

You can save time and have the chance to engage with students one-on-one

Also you can see ready-to-go lessons that were created by others about the topic you wish to teach and get inspired, or you could have your students check them out and create their own lesson plans and see how they like their lessons taught.

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Proprofs is a free knowledge management application which enables you to create online quizzes, polls, surveys, flashcards etc. As educaters, we know how important are quizzes in classes. Proprofs is a website that can meet all your needs about quizzes. For example, you can choose the type of questions that you want to  prepare. You can create multiple choice, true/false, essay, checkbox, fill in the blank and matching questions. You can upload videos and add images for your questions and for the answers. Proprofs is very easy to use. It does not require installation. It give you to opportunity to share your quizzes on social media networks. It is available on mobile phones, tablets and desktops. Test results and feedback are immediately available.

How to use Proprofs in classroom ?

Use Proprofs to create online interactive quizzes. Add visuals to your questions. You can also let your students ask the questions to their classmates.  Proprofs gives you the opportunity to get the results of tests and feedback immediately. Analyse the results of tests and measure your students’ scores. Analysing the scores give you the opportunity to detect of which topic your students are uncapable. So you can decide your teaching approach acccording to the results. If you are a teacher who prefer using classical teaching approaches in your classes  to use technology-based methods, Proprofs enables you to print your quizzes out.  As I mentioned above Proprofs has a feature of creating flashcards. Using flashcards is a highly reliable method in education, especially in language teaching. Choose one of the ready to use flashcard templates or create your own for your vocabulary classes. Also, you can these flashcards in your speaking classes. Write some situations on the cards and add some images. Then, ask your student to give 2-3 minutes speech.

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Wevideo is a platform that allows you to create and  online videos .You can easily share your video on Youtube, Facebook, Google Drive etc. First, upload some images about your topic. Then, adjust the order of the images. Adjust the theme and transitions. If you want,  add effects and music.Wevideo also has screencasting feature. You can record the process of preparing your video.

How to use Wevideo in classroom ?

Remember the image principle. The tenet of the image principle is that people learn better and easily by using words and images than by using only words. Thus, use Wevideo when you want to prepare eye-catching videos to teach the target topic to your students and  ask students to prepare a video that explains a topic and let them  present the video in the classroom or share the video  with their friends. For example, they can choose a grammar topic and present it in the class. In English classes Wevideo also can be used as a storytelling tool. As you know, online storytelling is one of the most  appliable and effective language teaching method.

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Quizlalize is a student response system, similar to Kahoot , that really engages students. It is a great formative assessment tool that gives the teacher instant feedback.

-Teachers can create  quizzes with multiple- or two-choice question sets or single-word responses presented as word scrambles. Students then access the quiz from the Web using a class code and see the full quiz on their screen. Teachers see how each student is progressing to the score goal, and they can choose to display this progress to the class.

-. After the quiz, students see their score, how long it took them to answer each question, and a list of all questions, their answers, and correct answers. Teachers see a quick list of which students were strong and which need help

- Teachers can see who needs help while students are still taking the quiz and they can see details on how students answered each questions. When creating the quiz, teachers can add categories to make data analysis more efficient and meaningful and answer explanations to provide students with context.

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http://www.voki.com/ It is an educational tool that allows users to create their very own talking character.
How to use it ?
-Before the lesson teachers can create a voki character by recording their own voice or uploading an audio file and send to students like a preliminary preparation.
-It can be an alternative tool for teachers who use flip classrooms cause there are hundreds of characters that can be customized to look like historical figures, cartoons and animals that can easily attract students' attention.
-Teachers can teach any subject with voki to elemantary children,they can prepare a voki character by giving lecture and show them before start to lesson and ask them questions to create brainstorming atmosphere.
-Not only teacher but also students can create lots of characters and record their voices that can be helpful for the shy students who are hesitating to talk in front of the class.Lastly this can help them develop their speaking skills.

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Visuwords is a tool in which teachers can create diagrams word maps quickly in order to teach words, it is an online graphic dictionary. Using this tool new vocabulary can be coded strongly into the learners minds by employing association. Just like the neural pathways in the brain which develop and become stronger when they are connected and intertwined together new words are connected with other previously known words or unknown new words. By using this connection technique quick diagrams or word maps are created in an instant. Not only this it is an interactive map too when you hover the cursor over the words it shows their definitions. Learners can learn new words easily and strongly with this tool and it is extremely easy to use, all one needs to do is to type in a word in the search box and press enter or click on random and discover uncharted lands of the vocabulary! I truly believe this tool would be very useful when teaching vocabulary.

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It is a research tool that allows users to build a concept map to which they can pin notes, websites, videos and facts. Users can also open a journal that cites all of the resources with active hyperlinks, creating a fully interactive journal that can be saved and shared.
*Students can use it for brainstorming, writing topics, and refining topics. It is a very easy app to use while preparing the layouts.
*Teacher can create a class code that students can input as they login. So teachers can track students and see how they are doing.
*ELL students who are taking core subjects can put in concepts and vocabulary. They can use the glossary and videos to assist them with their learning.
*After doing the map, students can share their works easily via Edmodo.
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PosterMy Wall provides custom professional graphics, flyers, and posters by supplying templates, online tools and print services. Make and download simple posters for free and without registration.
How can we use it in ELT?
- It allows teachers to organize projects.
- Students can use PosterMyWall to prepare posters
- After an assigned reading,it  have them create a poster to explain the text.
- Create a quick presentation of the best posters to share with the class

- Have students email their finished product to you as an informal assessment.

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This is a kid-friendly social network and book discovery tool that ignites a love of reading in elementary and middle school students. It’s like Goodreads made just for young people with built-in edtech tools for teachers. Joining the Bookopolis online community builds excitement for reading as students connect with classmates to share book reviews, discover new books through peer, personalized, and curated book recommendations, and earn points and for all their reading activity.

How could this be used in ELT?
Teachers can:
- build a community of engaged readers in their classroom,
- use Bookopolis to assign and monitor written work like book reviews, book reports and online reading logs and easily track key reading metrics like number of books read, pages read, minutes read, and most popular books with students.
- assign the students work in pairs and work on a specific beneficial book .

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Boom Writer is a digital multi writing website which allows to write with other students.

HOW DO WE USE IT İN ELT

- Students can use it when they have shared work to do, for example: writing an essay together.
- Both students and teachers can sign up with their school. if theit school is not in their list, they can creat it easily.
- There are three options to use as format; Story writer, Word writer and Project writer.
- The students can use Story writer to increase their creativity, imagination and of course their vocablary.
- As they contunie to write they will improve themselves continously.
- Students can help each other to write their essay even though if it's not a multi homework. just need to share the code/link they got from the site.
- Teachers can check what their students are doing, how well they are going and may help them along the way.

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Selin ÖZDEMİR
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It is an online site about making slide and share it or not. It is like powepoint but it is online and everybody in tjhe world can use and share their slides.
-- We can use this
// When we search for a summary about a.lesson (Of course if there is a any slide about it.)I like its slide because they are more aesy to understand.
// While we are presenting we can use this site and upload it so the other students which is not in class at the mean moment.

// While the students look at a slide there are various themed slide at their right like Youtube. So they can get used to it easily and get curious and look at the other slides.

// As i say their subject content is various. The students or the others can find detailed or superficial information. It is totoly depens on them.

// We can gave students slide homework about an unit and they will present it and share with his other friends so they can make comparisons.

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Google Docs is a free Web-based application in which documents and spreadsheets can be created, edited and stored online. Files can be reached from any computer with an Internet connection. Google Docs is a part of a comprehensive package of online applications offered by and associated with Google. It has managed to replicate Excel, Word and powerpoint with Google spreadsheets. You can upload, create and store all these files online and then download them to other Office applications and share your work with other online. How to use Google Docs;
Step 1: Create a document
To create a new document;
*        Open the docs home screen.
*   In the top left, under "Start a new document," click New . This will create and open your new document.
Step 2: Edit and format
You can add and edit text and paragraph in a document
Step 3: Share and work with others
You can share your files created before with your friends and work with them.
ADVANTAGE OF GOOGLE DOCS
Google Docs has enormous advantages instead of Microsoft Office. These are;
·        Anywhere/Anytime/Any device
You can reach your documents from everywhere because there is no need specific computer or phone. As long as internet is available, you can reach your documents everytime from everywhere.
·        Perpetual Backup
Unfourtunately, our documents or Works in Microsoft Office can be deleted sometimes. But, you do not have any risk in Google Docs because Documents are perpetually and redundantly backed up, so there’s no need to worry about losing documents due to disasters or machine malfunctions.
·        Simultaneous Collaboration
If you have a need to collaborate with others on a particular document, that can be done simultaneously. This very powerful feature in Google  Apps allows more than one user to edit a document at the same time

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The free language learning app Duolingo offers 11 completed language courses for English speakers, 2 beta languages, and 8 languages still “hatching” in their incubator form. For example, as an English speaker, you can learn Spanish, with over 40 million other learners, Italian, with 10 million learners, or even Irish, with just over 1 million learners.

Duolingo also includes language courses for speakers of languages other than English. These include French for Portuguese speakers, English for Czech speakers, and so on.

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Duolingo is widely known by language learners.It is closely related to ELT in terms of its wide usage by language learners. We can use it with our tech-lover students.It will encourage them to learn the new language and the most important side of Duolingo is that (to me) it gives students the comfort of making mistakes.Yes, this is very important.Because we learn anything by doing mistakes.But that doesn't mean to leave the mistakes as they are.Duolingo corrects all the mistakes which are made by the user.And remind the true samples in regular intervals.
It also provides opportunity to enhance listening skills in additon to vocabulary and grammar.
When you start using it,you have to set a goal to reach.It is (setting a goal) one of the significant fundamentals of language learning technics.You know any kind of wind cannot help to the ship which doesn't know its destination. :)
We may extend our use of Duolingo by making further researchs or practices.
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Here are six ways you can get the most out of Duolingo.

1. Try to win the game.

2. Take the placement test.

3. Click “Discuss Sentence” if you don’t understand something.

4. Review old lessons often.

5. Try timed lessons.

6. Don’t rely on Duolingo alone :)

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ŞAFAK TİRYAKİ 15093047

Prezi is a great new way to make impressive and professional looking presentations. It is easy to use but it takes some time to really master it. It is way better and eye-catching than the good ‘ol power point. With prezi you can make a presentation and give the control to wievers , they can zoom in and out and drag it around. With prezi you can start with a small key detail and move all the way up to the bigger picture while describing , analysing and asking questions about the details and the topic. It is great for speaking activities and also for presenting an assignment.

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http://www.clpgh.org/storymaker/embed.cfm
Story Maker is an easy to master tool we can use in order to create stories that can attract students' attention. Story Maker may be an inventive way of teaching students vocabulary,grammar, reading and even speaking.

Creative ideas:
-We can create some cartoon characters performing various activities and teach the students about those activities.
For instance: Taking a shower, having breakfast etc. With the help of visuals, it will be easier for them to remember the right use of phrases.
-We can embed audio to the stories. This way they can learn the correct way of pronouncing the words.
-We can ask students to create their own short stories and have them present it. This way students will be able to have fun and learn new words from each other.
-We can create an interactive story which asks students various questions. Since this method of teaching is for the younger learners, they will be more engaged inthe activity if they see cartoon characters communicating with them.
-We can also use this tool to create fun exams.