Ali Vehbi Yalınç Akademik Materyalleri

      I know that first-aid in schools is necessary and the reason I chose to have a certificate on this topic is the need of first-aid knowledge that you can use in class environment. Here is a QR code of my certificate to make the process easier.

  Social Networking as a Tool for Education    Social networking stands for the use of internet-based social media sites in order to be in contact with other people such as colleagues, families, friends, customers, etc. With the rise of social softwares, social networking became a dominant topic. Social softwares is a part of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 technologies are used and created by various internet users to enlarge and spread the existing online content pool worldwide. Worldwide social softwares include wikipedias, blogs, podcasts, etc. which are used by educators to provide online materials to students. The contents generated by users open doors to new possibilites. Group or individual works can be done using the contents, this way, teamwork spirit is also injected to content users.       There are some problems with the system though, for example, the unauthenticated and unfiltered data that will be a drag for students who are not commanded or guided by an expert, they will struggle

          These words might not be familiar for dinosaurs but not us, Augmented Reality (A.R.) and Virtual Reality (V.R.) are two of the novel technologies in the industry. VR is basically a screen that makes your vision 100% changed and lets you see different types of environments. AR is an augmentation tool with glasses that basically advances your vision by creating flying panels around your eyes just like in a science fiction film.    VR use in education is really beneficial in these lockdown days as it helps students and teachers to be assembled again in a digital class. Students can analyse worlds that they have never seen, for example, a mining Engineer trainee can see Mponeng Gold Mine, Garzweiler Surface Mine or even Hpakant Jade Mine without leaving their houses. VR is an efficient tool in economic factor, students do not always have wealthy parents, so they cannot always go abroad and visit special places, VR helps breaking the boundaries stemming from financial issues this

I want to add my fellow teacher's blogs here, they worked hard to create and maintain these blogs, feel free to take a look at them :) Ahmet Doğan's Blog https://hightechmats.blogspot.com/?m=1 Halil Üneş's Blog https://halilunes.blogspot.com/?m=1 Ünal Parlak's Blog https://chaseyourfuture.blogspot.com/ Muhammed Aydoğdu's Blog https://muhammedaydogdu.blogspot.com/?m=1 Kristina Nikolaeva's Blog https://kristinanklva.blogspot.com/

   Nearpod is best described as an online class application just like zoom. Teachers can create lessons and generate codes for their lessons, send the codes to their students and can accept students to their classes. Student do not have to create an individual account for themselves, so Nearpod also protects privacy of the students in a class.  

    Voki is a simple application in which you can create a speaking avatar to your liking. You can use your avatars in lessons, blogs, wiki entries, etc. This application is really useful for the shy students who wants to talk but wants to hide their faces at the same time, Voki lets us see and hear them even if they do not open their cameras. Just open your cameras kids, we will not eat you, we are not monsters!

   Flipgrid is a convenient application, teachers can form questionnaires to assess their students. Teachers can post videos and texts to create discussions about the topics included in the videos. Students can answer the questions using videos made by them.  

  Just like the Padlet, Trello is also a collaboration tool functioning like a bulletin board. You can manage projects from Trello, you can look at your students's projects, what are the doing, what they did up to now, etc. It is a really simple application, people use it frequently and is a popular app among students and teachers because of its simplicity.   Link to my Trello Board: https://trello.com/b/hdBuDXqS/web-20-tools  

      Padlet is an application which looks exactly like a digital bulettin board, teachers and students can post notice notes to the board that they created. The notices can include links, videos, texts about subjects. Teachers can inform their students by using those boards, students can inform fellow students and their teachers by posting notices. It certainly is a convenient tool.   

    Jamboard is a google oriented application in which lets users use their computer screens like a blackboard. You can take pictures from google and can record them to a cloud browser. You can write in handwriting style using Jamboard because it has a handwriting assistant.   

  With edpuzzle, teachers can make video-based quizzes, edpuzzle lets you put question in wherever you want in videos. I first saw and used this application in educational technologies class given by Asst. Prof. Ahmet Ağır and I was fascinated by the interface of the app and I want to incorporate it in my lessons as much as possible in the future.   

    Edmodo is one of the few tools that got me really interested, it is a class organizing application in which you can inform your class about the upcoming exams, assign students with assignments and accept their submissions, give specific lesson or exam infos, etc. It really is a convenient tool which is used by most of our lecturers.

    Peardeck is an application which is used in tandem with Google Slides and PowerPoint to help solve the inquiry problem between students and teachers. With the help of Peardeck, teachers can ask simultaneous questions to their students and students can answer them in the student side of Peardeck. This faciltates a Q&A environment which is hard without using an application such as Peardeck. You can choose and change the question outlines to your liking, drag&drop, multiple choice and many more types you can choose from. 

   It is a theory about aiming at offering teachers and students ideal learning and teaching outcomes. The theory is based around four factors to create meaningful and effective educational environment. The first factor is cognitive presence , it is about students sharing and discussing about inputs of the topics, creating new ideas from them and sharing them between the other students. Another factor is social presence , it is about the social status of the student, what they see themselves as in the class, what do they feel in class time, feel of belonging to the class. The third factor is teaching presence , it is about the roles of a teacher, monitoring, assessing, maintaining suitable conditions for their students. The fourth and the last factor is transactional presence , as the name suggests, it is about transactions between students, their affairs, relationships and interactions. 

 What Is This Theory All About?    This theory aims at the use of three different channels of learning in lessons, which are visual, auditory and verbal inputs because of them being varied helps the students get input from different channels. Including both visual and auditory contents in a lesson will activate two channels of a student at the same time and appealing to two or more channels has been proven beneficial to learning process. These dual channel stimulating contents must be given stably, they should not be a burden to students, which will contradict with the main goal of this theory.    The proccess goes as: Finding words and pictures for the presented topic, adding sounds and more images, finding a way to explain the topic verbally by analysing the other inputs that will be given, adding the prior knowledge into the presentation and then finishing it with last adjustments.