Materials Blog by Furkan Doğan

   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...

     This cognitive theory claims that presenting information by using only one component (most of the time verbal) is much less effective than doing so with both verbal and visual components. So it suggest that teachers should supplement their teachings by both verbal and visual components. By doing so the verbal information the learners receive is able to interact with the visual information in their working memory and add onto to the knowledge they had prior. This information is made much easier to remember by the graph below, just like how the theory suggests.