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5 Incredible Ways To Make Foreign Friends Would you like to be able to  make foreign friends , but you just don’t know how? There is no reason to fret – Finding people related to you from other corners of the globe is easier than you might think, you just have to learn a few useful tips, such as frequenting foreign environments, having lunch in exotic restaurants, learning new languages in foreign countries, enrolling in summer courses or even spending your holidays in countries as fascinating as Spain. Come and join us as we expand on these tips for helping you  make foreign friends . Friendship is a trait capable of uniting people from all environments, conditions and cultures; According to a well known study conducted by the University of Virginia (United States), friendship increases our empathy – A characteristic which can be a permanent effect lasting to and elderly age. Do You Want To Make Foreign Friends? 5 Helpful Tips For Success Eat At Foreign Restaurants and

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                                                  PIXTON Pixton is a comic creation site (as well as Android and iOS app) where creators can both make and share their comic strips. It's simple to navigate. After teachers establish a classroom site, they receive codes to distribute to students. Students can join by entering the code or teachers can manually add students to their class page. After students create an avatar (in comic form, of course!), they follow the step-by-step comic creator to begin their graphic stories. Teachers can make a specific assignment, or let students create freely. Options include the number of panels and the layout of a page. Visual icons help students add artwork, backgrounds, and text bubbles to comics (students don't draw their own stuff here but pick from a bank of fun images). A handy link to video tutorials is located right in the workspace, and the videos open up above a comic-in-progress, allowing students to toggle between how-tos

                     Socrative What is it? It is an easy to use test / quiz /  collaboration site. In their own words:   “Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.” Use is for: quick fact-based quizzes Exit quizzes Longer answer, open ended question Pre-testing How do you use it? You need to  sign up  first. After that you will see the main screen. Scroll down to “Manage Quizzes” and create your first quiz.  It can be multiple choice or you can let students can enter answers themselves.  Socrative is great for instant feedback and works really well for quick knowledge checks at the end of class. It is easy to set up and never fails to impress the students. I like Socrative, because I can do many things while teaching, for example, students can enter answers and the whole classroom can visualize it, the

Edmodo, also known as “Facebook for school,” is the premier social media and learning platform for teachers and students alike. Founded in 2008, the site has since gained over 20 million users. The K-12 social media network continues to grow and is now available in six languages, including Spanish, German and Greek. The platform’s app equivalent brings portability into the equation, which means educators, students and even parents can always access Edmodo when they need it. How Teachers Can Use It With Edmodo, teachers can truly bring the classroom online. With the ability to give assignments, quizzes and polls to students, Edmodo users can manage their classes and consolidate all of their activities in one place. Users also have unlimited options in terms of sharing digital content. Teachers can embed instructional videos, create learning groups for students, and manage calendar events. Communities allow teachers to browse subjects in order to find and share information

Pinterest is a social network that allows users to visually share, and discover new interests by posting (known as ‘pinning’ on  Pinterest) images or videos to their own or others’ boards (i.e. a collection of ‘pins,’ usually with a common theme) and browsing what other users have pinned. Using a visual orientation, the social network is very much focused on the concept of a person’s lifestyle, allowing you to share your tastes and interests with others and discovering those of likeminded people. The social network’s goal is to “connect everyone in the world through the ‘things’ they find interesting.” Users can either upload images from their computer or pin things they find on the web using the Pinterest bookmarklet. Here is my Pinterest Pin. I also used  Piktochart  to prepare my Pinterest Pin. 

Seesaw  The Learning Journal provides opportunities for students -- and teachers -- to really think outside the box. Students can show their work and thought processes in real time by submitting a video of themselves working through a math problem, snapping a picture of a paragraph they wrote, recording themselves reading a poem, or uploading a file to demonstrate their learning. Encourage kids to submit a series of images along with notes that tell the story that connects them. Or let kids collaborate with each other using peer-to-peer feedback to offer suggestions on writing content, scientific hypotheses, or creative ideas. Teachers at all grade levels and across all content areas can use Seesaw to keep digital portfolios of student work, including commenting on student submissions. You can communicate with families easily and share student work with them, or push out assignments to students to individualize instruction. You can also choose work to share with a broader

Blackboard  is a mobile  app  that enables you to view course content, grade assignments, connect with students in discussions, and interact with your class in Blackboard Collaborate. The app is available for iOS and Android mobile devices. I read an article about Blackboard which was written by Stephanie J. Coopman ( If you want to read it, click here)  It is a very detailed article. I couldn't find enough information about Blackboard on Google but with the help of this article I was informed about it. It has very broad content   Introduction Communication and the online classroom Students, teachers, and critical pedagogy Blackboard infrastructure features Communicating in Blackboard Discussion in Blackboard Chat and mail in Blackboard Additional communication features Implications Conclusion It implies the importance of online learning. It starts with '' As more students enter college with the Internet an integral

Dil Arama sorgunuzu girini                                              Moodle is an acronym for "Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment." It is an online educational platform that provides custom learning environments for students. Educators can use Moodle to create lessons, manage courses, and interact with teachers and students. Students can use Moodle to review the class calendar, submit assignments, take quizzes, and interact with their classmates. Moodle is used by thousands of educational institutions around the world to provide an organized and central interface for e-learning. Teachers and class administrators can create and manage virtual classrooms, in which students can access videos, documents, and tests. Course chat allows students to communicate with the teacher and other students in a secure environment. I read '' Effective E-Learning through Moodle'' article which was written by  Dr. Dharmendra Chouri

Virtual reality is a 3D computer-generated simulation which is very close to the real-world experience. The main component of VR is its head-mounted display (HMD). Other components include hand controllers and headphones. Any person can immerse themselves into a virtual world, performing certain actions. It can all be done through the help of their five senses: touch, taste, hear, smell, and sight.  In other words, it is an illusion of reality through a software-based virtual world. The uses of virtual reality in education are many. We have listed down a few of them below: o  Special education :  VR in education is beneficial for students with special needs. One can customise the content according to each student’s requirements and needs. o  Language training :  Students can learn a new language through full immersion since learning requires both speaking and listening skills. o  Skills training :  It is better to learn a new skill by practising in a real-life sit

   FLIPGRID What is Flipgrid? Flipgrid  is a video discussion platform that can be used by teachers and students. Using Flipgrid, teachers create a grid or virtual space focused on a topic or lesson. Students then respond to the topics using video.  Flipgrid is fully accessible. How do you obtain Flipgrid? Flipgrid is available for desktop computers and mobile devices and can be obtained from the Flipgrid website, Apple app store, Googleplay, and Microsoft. You can sign up for a free, that’s right FREE, account to get started. You can use this with pretty much any device, including Chromebooks. I uploaded a video on Flipgrid. My friends and I recorded a video to show '' how to use direct method''. If you wanna see it, click here .

AUGMENTED REALITY Augmented reality is an enhanced version of the real physical world through the use of visual elements, sound or other sensory stimuli. It is a growing trend among companies involved in mobile computing and business applications in particular. Amid the rise of data collection and analysis, one of augmented reality’s primary goals is to highlight specific features of the physical world, increase understanding of those features and derive smart and accessible insight that can be applied to real-world applications. Such big data can help inform companies' decision-making and gain insight into consumer spending habits, among others.  15 Top  Augmented Reality  (AR)  Apps  Changing  Education Star Walk: Constellation Finder. This  app  follows the user's movement in real-time and allows them to explore the night sky. ... Quiver. This amazing AR  app  makes coloring much more fun. ... Arize Ar  Dino Park AR+ ... Anatomy 4D. ... Elements 4D. ...

                                              Storybird is an online software tool that can be used by a range of ages to create and publish virtual stories. Illustrations from artists around the world are provided to inspire story writing, and students are able to create poetry, picture books and chapter books. Students choose an illustration and are then provided with an entire collection of related images by the same artist they can move the pictures around making  the possibilities of story writing, even within the same collection of images, practically limitless. Storybird can be used for a range of ages and depending on the learning objective students can be given freedom or required to write a story within certain parameters. Storybird has free teacher registration and allows teachers to invite or add students to their class list. Once a student has been added the teacher is able to print login cards, see any work the student saves, create assignments with specific limits

Hot Potatoes is shareware from Half-Baked Software which is based at the University of Victoria in Canada. It is a program that allows you to make six different types of self-test exercises. These exercises can also quite easily be imported into an LMS like Moodle to be used for assessment of learning content. Hot Potatoes was originally meant to create language exercises, and some HotPot exercises (like jumbled sentence) have little use otherwise. However, most exercises can be used for any subject. Hot Potatoes is shareware. That means you can freely download the program from the Internet (at Hhttp://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/ ). I created a quiz via HotPotatoes, here are some photos of my quiz.

Powtoon  is an animation and presentation program that can be used to create more interactive and engaging content. It offers a variety of animation styles including cartoons, infographics, and whiteboards. The program is web-based, so you can access your projects from any computer with an Internet connection and Flash. Complete with a media library, a variety of features, and a clean interface, Powtoon might be a great tool if you’re looking to create marketing or educational content. It uses a subscription-based access plan although it does offer a  free plan  that allows you to try everything out first. I made a Powtoon. If you wanna see, click here .