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Virtual Reality

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Virtual Reality (VR) makes you able to go through another world like a portal. Instead of developing your world with differences, this makes you go to developed worlds with this kind of glasses. We experienced Virtual Reality in our class with our instructor Tuncer Can and research assistant Cemil Gökhan Karacan. They helped us to understand how the glasses work and which applications we should use while trying out the VR. We simply put our phones in the glasses after opening the apps. Some of us stood up and even got out of the classroom chasing a deer and some of us just played turning their heads.

Augmented Reality

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 For our project in Instructional Technologies, I tried to create Augmented Reality experience using mobile application HP Reveal. I presented cow at a level of third graders.  Augmented Reality (AR) is what makes you able to develop your own world instead of going through another world. We experienced AR in our class with our teacher through HP Reveal. It is an application that shows you how to do AR. You simply take a photograph and attach a gif, video, picture or even 3D object on the photograph. Then you save it. After that, when you scan the photograph, you see the video you have attached on the photograph.  For AR to be used, we need glasses like you see in the picture or... phones. As a teacher candidate, I don't think children should be involved in technology too much and for this, I think AR is really very opposite to my beliefs. But for high schoolers, AR can be useful in terms of providing motivation. For example, extracting 3D objects and seeing ...

Grammar-Translation Method Podcast

https://soundcloud.com/cerenkvrk/the-grammar-translation-method Here is a podcast about the grammar-translation method which is a teaching method.

Direct Method Vidcast

A video about the direct method which is a teaching method.