DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

 Virtual Reality A three-dimensional virtual world (3DVW) is  a computer-simulated electronic 3D virtual environment that users can explore, inhabit, communicate, and interact with via avatars, which are graphical representations of the users . This is a new level of technology.  Second life is an example of these environments. After you have installed it on your computer, you can start using it by logging in. Firstly, you need to create your own avatar according to your features. You wander around with your avatar,  which is a different feature from the internet. Then it gives you some instructions to use Second Life. It sent you a guidebook to reach any information about it. If you want to go somewhere, you write where you want to go in the search bar. It teleports you to this area. I teleported from ısland to the IUC campus, but it was not like in real life because it expired. You can run by pressing Ctrl+r, can walk by pressing the forward button or you can do th...

  This is our telecollaboration project with Spanish college students. There are 3 universities in this project. The first one is Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa from Turkey. The others are Malaga and Complutense University from Spain. In this process, we chose our group with classmates and wrote our names on Google docs. Then, Spanish friends wrote their names, and groups of five and six formed. We sent some emails to each other to communicate and set the first meeting. We sent our phone numbers in order to create a group on Whatsapp. We thought that communication would be easier via Whatsapp. Because of my surgery situation, we made the first meeting a bit late. And this process continued like that. We followed the duties that were shared with us. Because of the planning mistakes, the Ramadan holiday, we discussed topics for the storybook on Google Docs. We introduced our famous storybooks in the third meeting. Finally, we created our storybook and sent it to them so that they gav...

 Hello everyone!!! You now see another tool in my blog. Canva  is an Australian graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents, and other visual content. The app includes thousands of templates and stock images for users to use. It is free to use the platform as a basic plan. But by choosing the premium plan, you can reach more templates and images. Also, this provides users to edit images, symbols, logos, posters, etc.  We, our team, use Canva platform for the Storybook activity that is a product of telecollaboration. Firstly, we started to write the story on a word page, and set which image would make it on which page. Then, we copied the paragraphs and pasted them Canva. We organized the cover and the last page, We edited the color of the background. We chose some images that related to our storybook. Also we took some images from google. According to storybook, we organized and redesigned images and zoomed them in and ...

 Here is our storybook which is the final product of the Valiant project that includes telecollaboration with Spanish students.  Adventures of Luka: First day at new school Adventure of Luka: First Day at New School

  Hi guys. I introduce  to you  another tool that can be lessons more effective and memorable. Flipgrid is a video tool that can be done discussion by recording a short videos. It helps educators see and hear from every student in class and foster a fun and supportive social learning environment.  Flipgrid allows teachers to post videos with some accompanying text about topics. It basically works for it.  These videos are shared with students, who can be prompted to respond. The response can be made with creating videos that are then posted to the original topic. I signed in with my email and answered some question about me. You can create an account or sign in as ı did. Then in account, by choosing create group option, you can create or by choosing join a group, and by entering code of class, you can enter the class. Begin to use the camera and record your videos like we did for "Which app do you like most and why?".  You can see trend topics, feature...

  Today ı came up with another tool called Pear Deck from the instructional technologies and material design lesson. Pear Deck is an app for interactive teaching and educational technology company offering web-based applications. It simply works for Google Slides. That's the point that you, as a teacher, transform presentations into classroom conversations fastly. Imagine if you could engage every student in your class, every day. What if you could instantly see who’s confused and who’s ready for more? It is not impossible. Pear Deck can do that. And now, with the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on, you can add the formative assessments and interactive questions to your presentations right from Google Slides. Open up the Google slide and Pear Deck sidebar. Then d esign a new presentation or open an existing one in your slides. After that, upload your PowerPoint lessons to Google Slides and start to use them. Templates are created by educators to support learning.  You can alwa...