Materials Blog by Furkan Doğan

 Voki is a website that allows you to create an avatar that says whatever you type. If you are teaching to really young children it will be a sure way to peak their interests. If one of my teachers during primary school used this tool they would instant become my favourite teacher for sure.    There are many options to choose as your avatar and they will say whatever you pick! You can save your videos and share them with your class. You can also click the microphone to use your own voice or click the file to upload voice file from your computer.

 In this entry I will show you how to use edpuzzle to share and edit videos with your students. Immediately after creating your account you will be met with this screen.  From here you will want to click the add content button and choose create a video.  After clicking create a video you can decide to search and pick a video from youtube or from edpuzzle's community which means videos other teachers using this website used. After picking your video, I have picked the video called "Solving Absolute Value Equations"  If, like me, you picked a video from edpuzzle's community you will notice that there are already questions and video part titles on the left of your video. These are done by other teachers and you can do the same with their video or videos you have found on youtube by clicking the edit button. If you want to cut only a specific part of the video you can also do so by moving the blue parts while in the editing tab.

  Pear Deck is an add on that you can download to enhance your presentations by making them interactable. It has many built-in templates that also makes teacher's life easier. It is as simple as opening your slides and clicking the add-on section. It will give you a code to share with your students. The main purpose of having an interactable presentations is of course asking your students questions, you will be able to see each individual result like shown in this really helpful picture below from another helpful blog you might wanna check out.

    Jamboard is an another tool teachers can use to raise interaction with students. It is in essence a virtual white board with simplistic design. When you first log in you will be greeted by an empty board like this:     You can use it on your own to make a more white-boardy looking presentation but where it really shines is putting your students into groups and having them make a collaborative homework. I would say that it is so simple that  it is more aimed at younger students. You can have open discussions while getting input from every single student too, like shown on the image below.                           

   Edmodo is a platform like google classroom which is solely dedicated to enhance teacher-student experience. It is really easy to use even as a teacher. You just need a university based e-mail and you can create an account.     In the home screen you can assign your students new assignments and leave individual comments on each student's assignments. It is a really helpful tool, especially in online learning since it will give notifications to each student as you can see below. Do not worry though, I did complete those assignments.    You can even pop quiz and evaluate them through edmodo.    After clicking the classes tab you can view all the classes you have. Which is a really easy way to individually follow them. And that's all you really need to know about edmodo. It's a simple to use tool.     

    Educational experience framework consists of four presence types that should occur during a classroom  procedure. All four of them if implemented correctly improve the learning experience of the students partaking in the lesson.     The first one is social presence. It mostly concerns about student's feeling of togetherness and individuality. Students need to feel like their presence in the classroom is acknowledged. Teachers should implement ways to achieve this feeling in the classroom like discussions of recent topics where teachers make sure that everyone is listened.    The second one is transactional presence. It is about feeling connected to others. This can be achieved in a classroom by having a student present something in front of the class. This way the student doing the presentation feels the acknowledgement of their classmates.    The third one is cognitive presence. It is similar to the second one in the sense that it i...