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            Social networks make the education better, cheaper, more available and responsive, so they  have become very popular. The more users add new content, the more people reach the content and the link. So, with the help of this collective activity, web grows rapidly. Web 2.0 has brought some new such characteristics  Profile, Traversable, Publicly Articulated Social Network and Semi persistent Public comments as well.                                                         User generated content in education comes with both benefits and limitations. In terms of it’s benefits, we can say that users can gain experience of the content, contents can be refreshed without any help, tools support collaborative work and they also excite learners. The arch benefit of web 2.0 is that users add value to the content. When it comes to its limitatitons, we can talk about its trust, reliability and believability issues. There is a lot of information on internet and it is not easy to sort the

Trello is a great way to keep everything organized. It's a collaboration board that organizes your ideas. When you look at the board you create, you can easily see what is being worked on and who is working on what. On this board, you can add photos, notes and attachments!     You can invite people to work with you in this interactive board you created. It's a great tool to use in interactive lessons. You can create projects with your students and assign them new tasks.   You can plan your lessons in detail, each students can create their own cart and work on the same board collaboratively. Teachers can see in which step their students are on their assignments. Teachers can also create group assignments for students to work in groups!   Here is an example of lesson plan made in Trello. We can even add more cart to this board if we want to! This is the second week's cart. We can add some photos, links, attachments and descriptions on each cart! 

Nearpod is a tool that can help teachers make the class interactive. Teachers can create interactive presentations that include contents like videos, pdfs and audios or activities like polls, tests, open ended questions, matching pairs and quizzes. Students can gain access to these presentations through links and codes that teachers share with them. Teachers can share these materials either as live participation or student-paced.     Here's an example of Nearpod presentation. This is a powepoint slide I created a while ago but I added some contents on it with the help of Nearpod. We can add time limit and state a point for each question. Before saving this interactive presentation, we can also preview it.  Teachers can assign homeworks to their students. Students can engage on their own time as well! Teachers can provide a student paced code and they can access the Nearpod lesson at home, or anywhere with internet connection. Teachers can also create some mini games for students. T

Flipgrid is a tool that allows you to create grids to facilitate video discussions. In each grid, teachers can post questions or some assignments for their students, and these are called Topics. Then, students can post video responses. These grids can be shared with students or even with some other teachers' grids for collaborative learning.  After signing up, teachers can create new Topics for students. They can arrange the amount of time that the videos should be(2-3 minutes or more).  Teachers can keep this grid special by allowing only the users with school's e-mail address.  It's a great tool to use in online education. Online education seems boring for students mos of the time. Ensuring an interactive lesson is teachers' hands. Users can upload and edit video, add more clips, cut and segment as well as enhance with emojis and texts. So, essentially, a simple video editing tool can produce a powerful result, depending on how creative you want to be!     Flipgrid ca

Edmodo is an online classroom platform. Teachers can interact with student and parents, and also, students can interact among themselves. It helps to keep track of the classroom online. By creating a classroom on Edmodo, teachers can create a welcoming post to greet students. Teachers can create new assignments for students and attach some documents to them. Teacher can upload some weekly materials. Teachers can also create polls on Edmodo. 

 Edpuzzle is a tool that teachers can assign students to watch videos. In Edpuzzle, teachers can add their own voices on the videos, ask both open ended and multiple choice questions or could want students to add further comments. The prominent feature of this tool is that teachers can see if students watch the videos that are assigned to them. Teachers can create their own videos or can upload videos from YouTube, Khan Academy, Ted or even, National Geographic.        In this example, there are some questions related to the topic. These questions are asked on the relevant parts to prevent confusion. Teacher also could have added some further comments.  Also, the video can be editted and can be cut to disclude irrelevant parts to the topic.

 Padlet is an online tool that can be described as online notice board. Padlet can be used both by students and teachers for interactive lesssons. In padlet, we can post notes on a common page and these posts can include links, videos, images, and document files.   Padlet can be used to introduce students with each other, gather some ideas from students about the topic, or for brainstorming. Here, in this example, padlet is used to practice the lesson that is learned. Apparently, the topic is Expressing Likes and Dislikes and students are wanted to write their own likes and likes and dislikes to practice the topic.   

If there's a need for a white board in a lesson, Jamboard  is what use should look for! Jamboard allows users to have a interactional board that students and teachers can work on collaboratively. Also, if students and teachers are not together, they can work online and whatever they do, it can be saved on Google Drive. They can create posters and different projects.  Here, in this example, there are two pictures and students are wanted to describe them. On this board, students can add some comments. As Jamboard can be used asynchronously and synchoronously, different other projects can be done. Also, there may be done more interactive tasks.   

 It's crucial to be able to keep students focused in the classses. If teachers look for ways to keep students focused, they could count on Voki to ensure that. Voki is an application in which you can create some characters of speech. You can customize Voki characters however you like, You can make them look like historical figures, cartoons, animals or even, you.  You can add your own voice or use the voice that Voki provides. There are different accents, men and women voices available and you can customize the voice on the left side of this image. You can type whatever you like and Voki will vocalize them for you! There are lots for different language options in Voki and you can easily use Voki for foreign language teaching. Students are usually shy while speaking in target language and Voki can encourage them to talk in the lessons. Also, they can hear the correct pronunciations of the words. So, boring lessons will be funnier and language teaching lessons will be more interactio

 Peardeck allows active lessons to take the place of the traditional lectures. In remote learning, using slides in classes may be boring for students. However, Peardeck allows these lessons to be more interactive. Teachers can add audio to their slides, ask students if they have any questions. Also, as Peardeck is used on Google Slides, teachers and students can work on the slides at the same time. In this example, on this slide, teacher wants students to choose the write option for this situation. Although students and teachers are not together, with the help of Peardeck, teachers can ask these kinds of multiple choice questions or ask students if it's okay to move on the lesson or whether or not they understand the class. Teachers can want students to draw mind maps or figures related to the lesson.  In this example, teacher wants students to compare and contrast two people. Students can write what they have in their mind on the slides and teachers can see them at the same time.