Revision of our Course This Semester with Dr. Kurt

Hello again everbody! We've come a long way since we started this semester. In our Technology and Materials Design course with Dr. Kurt, I can honestly say that we learned a lot. Almost every week we had a new subject, something new to learn, something new to discover. We created our personal blogs, discovered educational web tools, mobile apps and much more. We tried to learn how we can adjust ourselves to the 21st century learners. We learned how to integrate education with technology, how to benefit from technology to achieve our educational goals. In the beginning of the semester, Dr. Kurt informed us that any kind of instruction about a tool or subject was not going to be made by her in class. We were to discover and find out how to do the things we are supposed to to by watching videos, searching the internet or discussing with our friends. In my opinion, instructions made in class could be more practical for us (we wouldn't loose too much time trying to figure things out which we experience for the first time).Anyways, we came to an end of a beautiful semester and I thank Mr. Kurt for her efforts to turn us into better 21st century teachers. Stay safe everyone :)

PIXICLIP - an Educational Web Tool

Hello everyone! After a small break I want to introduce you a web tool called PIXICLIP. It is an interactive whiteboard on which you can save and share your work online. I presented this tool in class with my friend Ilker and we found this tool very useful for educational purposes. According to me, the best feature of this tool is it's simplicity. You don't have to subscribe, download or upload anything.You just search PIXICLIP on Google and start doodling!

As I said, it is very simple that almost everyone can understand how it works in 5 minutes. We have a pencil, pen, eraser, scale, undo or redo buttons which help us to doodle. We have only 6 colors which I think is too limited, few more color options could be added to make it better. A very good feature of PIXICLIP is it's enability to add our voice or video recording to our work. By doing one of these, we can explain or narrate while we demonstrate.
PIXICLIP can be used by the students for storytelling or describing something as a task. It can also be used in flipped classrooms in which the teacher records his voice and explains the subject online.
Finally I want to add the negative points (according to me) of PIXICLIP. The recording time of audio and video is limited to only five minutes. So if you want to narrate or explain something which takes longer than five minutes, you have to create another file (according to the length of your subject.) The second point I want to mention is the limited number of color options. I think a few more color options would make PIXICLIP a better educational web tool.
By clicking here you can watch a quick tutorial of PIXICLİP to better understand it's features.
Oh, and I think you also should have a look at our presentation which we did in our class. Have a good time :)