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Hey! I want to introduce "Nearpod" to you. With Nearpod you can make every lesson interactive. You can use animations, slides and gamified quizzes in youl lessons. With its formative assessment system which includes open-ended questions. draw-its and poles, you can see where your students are.  It includes lots of pre-made lessons to use and also you can create your own lessons. You can add your slides, images or videos directly from Youtube in a few clicks. And you can add questions to your videos and slides to make them more interactive.  Nearpod has different mods to use in your lessons. These modes help you to manage your students.  I suggest you to use Nearpod in your lessons to make them more attractive. And believe me you won't regret it. 

 Hi! Today, we will look have a look at Padlet and Trello. Padlet and Trello are very similar to each other. Padlet allows you to work on your projects and collaborate with your friends while working on it. And Trello allows you to manage your tasks and work on them with your friends easily.  They help you to manage your tasks with your friends online. Personally, I prefer to use Trello because its interface is easier.  In conclusion, they both have similar features and their main points are the same. Here is a link to my Trello board:  https://trello.com/b/iYscuCHq

Today, I want to talk about "Voki". Voki is an online tool that allows you to create an animation of yourself. It is useful for your students to work while having fun. Your students can create their own avatar or they can choose a character that is pre-made and also record their voice. They can edit their recordings as they want. It is a lot fun to explore Voki. You can select your avatars accent too. Voki has lots of different choices. After you create your recording, you can easily share it by copying the link of your Voki.

Hey! Today, I want to introduce "Flipgrid" to you. Flipgrid allows your students to record videos to response your questions. You can create a class and then share its code to invite your students.  If some of your students don't want to show his/her face, it's not a problem because Flipgrid allows you to add filters, emojis, drawing and even images while you are recording. Everyone in your class can see each others videos.   

 Hi! Today, we will look at Jamboard. Jamboard is an interactive and online whiteboard developed by Google. As it is developed by Google, it integrates with the other Google products such as Drive and Google Slides. In online lessons Jamboard will help you to use a whiteboard. Both you and your students can use it at the same time.  Do you want to draw something? You can easily draw things on Jamboard. Or you can find images on Google and use them on your board.  With Jamboard you don't need to worry about saving your boards as it saves them for you on Cloud.  

 Hey! Today, I want to introduce "Pear Deck" to you.  Pear Deck is a tool designed bt teachers to support 100% student engagement. With the help of Pear Deck you can see if your students doing well or not. It brings your slides to life. You can edit your slides to ask questions to your students about the subject. You can invite your students to your session by giving them a code.  Pear Deck is one of the best tools to improve the quality of your lessons. 

 The second tool I'm going to introduce is Edpuzzle.  With the help of Edpuzzle you can get videos from Youtube, Khan Academy, TED and more to use them in your classes. It helps you to find different sources about your subject. You can upload your own videos or use the videos that already exist to assign your students assignments. You can edit or cut videos to give your students the most important parts. You can also do voiceover so that students can listen your own explanations. You can add questions to see if your students understand the video. If you want your students to watch the whole video you can select "prevent skipping" option to prevent them from skipping videos.  After the quiz you can use Edpuzzle's hassle-free analytics to get all the information you need. 

 Hey! I want to introduce you some online tools that can be used in online lessons. I want to start with Edmodo.  Edmodo is a global education network for every student or teacher around the world can use it. You can use both the website and the app on your mobile phone.  I started using Edmodo in the first year of university and it helped me a lot to schedule my assignments. By using Edmodo you can easily communicate with your students and teachers as it sends you notifications when you get any news. Teachers can upload their lesson materials (handouts, reference books) easily. And students can download them. Teachers can assign assignments or quizzes and students can upload their works easily. Students can include their parents too. To create a class you need to have an teacher account. After creating a class you can share the class code and students or your colleagues can join your class.  I created a class and these are the two posts I've shared:   

 Online education has a lot of hard parts such as lack of communication, being unable to focus. But there is a way to make your online lessons successful. Social Presence:  In online lessons, students should feel that they are real people not robots. They can't sit down and listen to you for an hour without losing their concentration. To avoid that problem you can use tasks to give your students an active role in classroom. For example, asking your students about their feeling at the moment or giving them a group task can help them to enjoy and focus. Transactional Presence: It is the sense of being connected to other students. Sharing their ideas with their peers may boost their focus. You can achieve it by asking your students to explain the subject of the day. Cognitive Presence: By exchanging ideas your students can achieve Cognitice Presence. Students can understand their knowledge by listening the other students in the class. You can give them a group task to discuss about a