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Contribution to My Digital Teacher Identity

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 As I have always stated, whenever I got the chance so far, I have always been a traditional teacher. Instead of teaching in front of a screen, of course not when I am forced to because of a pandemic, I would always prefer to be face to face with my kids. But, during his course I was able to learn different ways of benefiting from the screen in front of us and communicating with my students. I realized that students, according to their ages, will always have the interest for electronics, digital tools and such so, even if this is forced for us at the moment, I guess willingly most of us will want to get in front of a screen in the future. So, we already are aware of the importance of giving feedbacks, designing lesson plans and formative assessments but applying these in a digital platform through screen may become a challenge for most of us. We learned how to do these in the most effective and easiest way. Our educator’s lessons were mostly interactive that actually showed us in t...
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summaries of four discussed chapters

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SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS Introduction   For this assignment, we recorded a total of four videos. Each of them is a discussion of the chapter we were responsible for the week. We both had different ideas for example, when I thought the topic had benefits, my friend thought it had more negative effects. So, we sometimes agreed to disagree. We clearly verbalized our own ideas to each other and tried to see the topics from different aspects, together. Then, we shared our ideas with each other and talked about them, recording our discussions.   Content   The first topic was distant language teaching with technology. We discussed advantages and disadvantages of online classes. I can say that I was mostly talking about its negative sides. I always mentioned how it is so important to see your students face to face because it is not only students who need the motivation for education. But, as a benefit I agreed that it can be made pedagogically suitable but, again, it’s t...
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Padlet

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  Padlet is a platform that allows you to create an online board you can use to add information for any topic. First three boards and the membership is free. It is really easy to use You can also add images, links, videos and more. Padlet can be used to collaborative in collecting ideas. It would be really useful to use with your students. You can make a board about, for example, d tenses to teach them. Then they can freely add comments or give examples to the tenses. You can add some mistakes as well, telling your students to find the mistakes and rewrite them. It would be fun as well as productive.  Now, lets see how to use Padlet. Firstly, you get an account which is free. Then, you will see a page and when you click on "make a padlet" it will give you 6 choices.  For example, I chose Shelf to try out how it works. Then I added some columns which are the names of the tenses. Then I added posts to that columns as examples to the tenses. I changed some of ...
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Second Life

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Second Life is a virtual 3D platform where social connection and creation is possible. Everything in Second Life is created by people like us. It pledges, like its name, a real life experience which is said, that platform is like our second life. Because it is an online platform, you can chat with other players and learn from experts which makes this platform more education based. This is my avatar and I am a new user in search for now. I am trying to learn the platform better to be able to use it for education.
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Storybird

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  Storybird  is a platform for writers, readers, and artists of all ages. Storybird lets you write your own visual story or show your poetry. It also lets you garnish your writings with loads of arts. It is really easy to use. You simply create an account of your own and start with choosing arts and write or... you can just read. After writing your own story, you can get feedback from a community of 9 million readers, writers, and educators.   This is the story I have written if you want to check out.
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Pixton

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  Pixton  is a cartoon making tool that allows you to create your own comics. It is really easy to use and you don't have to draw your own characters. You can let your students create their own comics and share them with each other. You can create free individual accounts.   Here  is my own comic if you want to check out.
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Hot Potatoes

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  The  Hot Potatoes  includes six  applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source. To use Hot Potatoes, you have to download it to your pc. Then you will see a screen. You choose one of the choices you have. I chose the quiz to understand how this works.  So, you simply get a screen like this one and write your question and their answers with the feedback. Then you save the quiz to your desktop. It is really simple to use,  you just need to download it which takes a really short while.
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