Online Courses: My New Certificates!

  Hi everyone! Today I'd like to show you three new certificates of mine which i have achieved by joining online courses on Bilgeiş and İsmek!

  Bilgeiş is an online platform which is developped by ODTU for people, especially students to have access to various online courses for free! All you need to do is to register, sign in and choose your course. The one i chose to join is "Teaching with Techonology (E-Teach)". I really liked it and learned new technological materials that i can use in my own lessons in the future. The online lessons have many interactive activities and quizzes so it is enjoyable! If you successfully complete the quizzes and the final test, you achieve your official certificate!

  Enstitü İstanbul (İSMEK) is also an beneficial site for all people who would like to join courses in various fields, and you have options for face to face and online education for free. After registiring and signing up, you will have option to join courses in specific periods of time, so you can choose the lesson term which suits you the best. And i decided to have the "Educational Technologies" and "How to Write a Formal E-mail" online courses!

You can go to these sites by clicking on these:

Bilgeiş

Enstitü İstanbul (İSMEK)

Thanks so much for reading! See ya 👋🏼

Edmodo!

 

   Hi! In this post i’m going to introduce Edmodo, one of the most popular learning management systems. Edmodo is an online platform for managing your digital classroom and communicate with students, parents and collegues as Edmodo allows joining with whether a teacher account, student account or a parent account. So after signing up with a teacher account and creating your profile, you are now ready to create your first class! Then with the class code you have created, students can join the class. You can begin to share the various materials (videos, powerpoints, images, links, videos, PDFs etc.) with your students, you may organize the materials in different folders so it would be easier to find them when needed. 

   There are opportunities for making the student to teacher communication easier by sharing announcements, creating polls and asking for students’ opinions, you can send and receive private messages. Moreover, it becomes easier to assign homeworks, exams, quizzes for a specific of time and lock it as well, then you can make evaluations and give feedback. One of the best part of Edmodo is that it allows teachers to divide students into smaller groups and enable student to student communication with collaborations.

Here is a photo of my class that I created as a teacher:

Here you can see the Home page, where you can see your collegues’ and students’ and your own posts that are shared (kinda looks similar to Facebook, isn’t it :) :

Lastly, my advice is that you should keep the materials that you had uploaded even the class is finished. Don’t delete the classes so you can reach to the sources and the activities incase you need to check them out, make some adjustments and reuse!

You can access to Edmodo by clicking here, or you can download the app from Google Play Store and App Store.

If you are interested, here is a beneficial video about Edmodo: https://youtu.be/CSG5ha9DMIM

Thank you so much for reading, see you in my other posts!

Duolingo!

 

   Hi everyone! I’d like to introduce you a wonderful app that I’ve been using since last year, it is Duolingo! 

   Duolingo is an app which was created for learning various languages in a very fun and efficient way. It has many units, exercises and activities which develop your vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. First, you need to sign in with your account and edit your profile so you can check your progress. Then select the languages that you want to learn, there are many language options for English speaker learners including Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Dutch and even High Valerian :)  And now you are ready for your first lesson!

  Duolingo encourages you to learn the language with the exercises of intorducing you to some simple words first, writing down the word that you heard, making up short sentences, pronouncing the written word and as you progress and level up, the exercises become much more challenging and you can’t wait to study more! At first a 5 minute study is enough and for each day that you study you gain streaks, if you don’t study you lose your streaks unless you have a streak freezer.

   And here is my profile! I’ve been using it since February 2021, and I’ve been trying to learn German, Russian, French, Spanish and Japanese! I know it seems a lot but using Duolingo makes it a lot enjoyable even if I learn just a few words. Nowadays I can’t seem to find time so as soon as my summer holiday begins, I’ll go back to continue my language practises!

   The only thing that i would want for this app would be more language options for Turkish speakers, because there are only English, German and Russian options for them. I can switch to English speaker part so it is not a problem for me but it would be much better if they could add some more language options for Turkish and other language speakers! 

    So, you should denifitely check this app out if you are looking for different ways to learn a new language, I am sure you’ll like it! You can download it on Google Play Store and Apple Store!

Thank you for reading! See y’all :)

TPACK Model!

   Hello again! I am back with the mindmap that I’ve created for the TPACK Model, by using Miro!

  TPACK is another technological teaching framework which is an acronym for Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge and it was designed by Punya Mishra and Matthew Koehler. It was used to show the importance of what teachers know, how they teach and how technology is used for the lessons to be effective with the use of technology.

Technological Knowledge (TK): Teachers’ knowledge about the technology and tools, how to use them and combine it with the lesson through apps, websites and games.

Pedagogical Knowledge (PK): How the teacher uses the knowledge they have through practices and processes that are used in the lesson, including instructional strategies, teaching methods, assessments.

Content Knowledge (CK): Teacher’s own knowledge about the facts. concepts and theories for the subject matter.

Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK): How to choose technological and collaboration tools, depending on students’ age, level, background knowledge etc.

Technological Content Knowledge (TCK): How to teach the subject matter with the use of technology.

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK): How to effectively engage in teaching and learning with using methods, approaches for subject matter.

This is all about TPACK for now! If you would like to learn more, you can click on the link below and see how TPACK is put into practice by two skilled teachers in an elementary school: https://youtu.be/_a90EvWfoLU

Thank you so much for reading!

SAMR Model!

   Hello everyone! Today's post will be about the one of the technological teaching models, SAMR Model! And i will show you the mindmap i have prepared by using Miro, which is an online whiteboard tool that you can develop your ideas and projects very easily.

   SAMR is a technological teaching model that is created by Ruben Puentedura, for learners to enhance their current practice and improve their learning experience by evolving these difference types of practices with the use of technology through the levels of Substition, Augmentation, Modification and Redefinition.

Substitution: It is the level which the learner substitues the traditional material with a technological material. For example, writing notes on Ipad or a laptop, instead of a notebook.

Augmentation: The learner improves the task functionally by using technology. For instance, creating a mindmap online with the advantages of editing its colors and branches, zooming to view it much easier.

Modification: At this level, the task is redesigned by the technology used. For example, turning the mindmap into a collaborative material by working on it online at the same time, adding pictures, videos etc.

Redefinition: In this ultimate level, technology is the vital need for the tasks that the learners create. The task is completely different from its first version as it gives the learner the control of their own learning and ownership of their task. For instance, now the learners can make their task by vlogging, podcasting, telecollaboration, editing and also sharing these on their blogs. They can make unique works by combining them. 

This is all about SAMR Model i can share. Also I am dropping the link of Ruben Puentedura's video in which he talks about how he developed the SAMR Model, how it works and how it is used in learning and teaching. You can check it out if you're interested: https://youtu.be/ZQTx2UQQvbU

Learning Theories!

  Hello!! Today, I would like to share the mindmap that I have created about “The Learning Theories” by using Mindmeister .

 

If you would like to learn further about the learning theories, you can check out Learning Theories Timeline