Ahmet Gürcü

  A PARAGRAPH ABOUT THINGLINK   ThingLink is a powerful way to use technology to make education more engaging. It allows teachers to to turn any image, video, or 360-degree VR shot into a learning experience. It is very easy to use.   You just need to select something on the image you want to tag, tap it and then type text or record a voice.  

  A PARAGRAPH ABOUT ZOOM BREAKOUT ROOMS   Zoom breakout rooms provides group collaboration for students. Breakout rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting up to 50 separate sessions. This is a good feature for teachers. That is they can assign student groups on different topics and let them brainstorm about it. Teachers can also join student’s breakout rooms to check their learning process and help them if they have any problem. It is a good application for both students and teachers. There are lots of great videos about how to use Zoom Breakout Rooms. Here is one; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS_LhXe01fQ    

  A PARAGRAPH ABOUT PEERGRADE   Peergrade is an online platform to facilitate peer feedback sessions with students. Teachers can give students assignments through peergrade. Students can submit their work to your assignment. Students can give each other’s assignments feedbacks. In the website, there are many teachers and academicians who support using Peergrade.   https://www.peergrade.io/

  A PARAGRAPH ABOUT MENTİ.COM   Mentimeter or menti.com is an interactive presentation website that allows users to create online presentations. Users can create different kinds of presentations such as questions, polls, etc. Teachers can create quizzes and students can easily reach them by entering the code. I think it is a great website for teachers to get feedback from the students instantly.   https://www.mentimeter.com/

  Gürcü, Ahmet, ELT006, Reflection Paper   Before i start what i learn, it was so efficient for me to watch the webinar. Firstly, i learned   what creativity is and how it works. There are 7 steps to creative thinking and each step is a great opportunity to enhance problem solving abilities and other things. I also learned convergent&divergent thinking and features of brainstorming. Secondly, i learned some applications and activities. There are   great exercises to teach vocabulary to students such as brainstorming vocabulary, portmanteau words,etc. All these applications and activities will be a great tools for me to teach English to my students. Finally, i can use some exercises in my own classroom environment. Visualisation is an important application for speaking lesson, For example, as a teacher, in the future, i can ask for my students to visualize the movie or image they saw lately and   this could encourage them to speak English so they are ...

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