Eden 427 Technology use for materials development in TEFL

 QUILL Quill is an all-in-one writing tool for upper elementary, middle, and high school students that supports grammar, revisions, and lessons. When writing essays and reports, the proofreader and grammar features come in handy, and the connect tool helps students identify run-on and fragmented sentences. Students learn essential writing tips in real-time by receiving instant feedback on their writing.      Quill also includes a lesson feature that allows teachers to lead instruction to the entire class as well as small groups. To reinforce what was learned, Quill's lessons include writing prompts, discussion topics, and independent follow-up writing activities. Finally, Quill has a diagnostics feature that shows teachers where their students need to improve. This tool generates personalized lesson plans for each student based on their previous app activity and performance. https://www.quill.org/

     Penzu is a free online journaling service which enables users to write anonymously or openly for personal, business, and/or academic purposes.      Journal writing can help you improve your oral, speaking, and writing abilities. Learners will exhibit their writing, debating, and creative ability by using online diary applications such as Penzu. Moreover, learners are invited to evaluate their individual learning and success in addition to analyze their ideas and feelings regarding what they are learning via journal writing. These will allow students to ponder on their individual work ethics, values, attitudes, beliefs, and motivations as well as analyze their learning and comprehend development.      Educators can go through the diary entries to determine whether they satisfy any specific aims or purposes. Content, inventiveness, and even writing abilities may be judged in student writing. Penzu provides for privacy or sharing, allowing ...

     This tool called Plot Generator claims that a new skill can be learned much more easier when the practice is enjoyable. Writing a story can be a lot of fun, but the difficult part is knowing where to begin. Plot Generator is the perfect solution.  Just pick a genre (e.g. fairytale, mystery, science fiction), fill in the gaps with some details and click ‘write’. This will generate a plot for you to develop, with your own ideas, in your own style.

                                                                             WORDTUNE  Wordtune is a website that focuses on writing. It is free but it has daily limits for users to use the app for free. When users add the wordtune to their browser and open it, they see different options such as rewrite, casual, formal, shorten and expand at the top of the page. If users want to make changes in the sentence or paragraph they write, whichever of these options they want to change, the application displays recommendations to the user after selecting that option. For example, users can make the sentence they write more formal or write the sentence longer or shorter thanks to the application.   LINK :  https://www.wordtune.com/

     Readlang helps you learn a language by reading. It lets you: Read any native content. Browser extensions allow reading or importing of almost any website. Copy and paste or file upload enables you to read almost any digital text you can get your hands on, even entire novels.      Readlang helps you learn a language by reading. It lets you r ead any native content, r apidly translate the words and phrases you don’t know and learn words in context using flashcards.

 News in Levels  News in Levels is a free website for improving reading skills. It includes reading passages on different topics such as history, nature and sport at various levels. There is a section in the website titled how to improve your English. According to this section, users should first solve the word test on the site and after determining their English level according to this test result, they should read at that level. There is also a video of each reading text on the site, and it is recommended to practice listening by listening to these videos after reading the reading text. LINK: https://www.newsinlevels.com/

     Lexipedia is a visual thesaurus. It is very simple to use. Just type in any word and Lexipedia instantly displays the target word along with other words. It also color-codes the words by both parts of speech and relationships. As you hover over a word, a complete definition is displayed.       Lexipedia contains an expanded version of the English Wordnet and supports six languages; English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish languages.

 FREE RICE      At Free Rice, students may practice matching words to their definitions while also donating rice. The United Nations World Food Programme distributes 10 grains of rice to a developing nation for each right answer. How's that for combining word learning with social good? When a student plays, a visual display of rice (see image) is put to a bowl each time the student responds correctly. Subject area listings in Geography, Science, Math, and other subjects are included in Free Rice. It is tiered so that kids may play at the appropriate degree of difficulty for them. Free rice is an educational trivia game that lets you learn while helping people all throughout the world.       After creating a profile, you may start a secret group, invite your friends, and compete to see who can raise the most rice! Share your group code with gamers so they may join. Then, on the group's "stats" tab, track rice grains to view the player standings. An...

                                                                                         FluentU FluentU is a foreign language learning app. It offers the users many language options such as English, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish. Fluentu is not free, but users get a 14-day free trial when they sign up for the first time.The first thing users need to do is to register with the fluentu application, choose which language they want to learn and start watching videos at the appropriate level. It aims to improve the language skills of users with videos and audio recordings from authentic sources such as movie scenes. Along with the video, the transcript is located at the bottom of the video and the translation appears when the words are clicked on.   LINK...

  VISUWORDS     Visuwords is the result of combining a dictionary and a mind map. When students enter a word, the program generates an interactive mind map containing related terms, providing synonyms and examples.  The color of the bubble symbolizes the component of speech for the word, and the bubbles are linked through color-coded threads that illustrate how these words are related.       This tool is an excellent substitute for an online dictionary or thesaurus. Teachers choose to use this tool with their more advanced pupils to assist them increase overall vocabulary production. The main disadvantage is that some students might find the quantity of links to be excessive when contrasted to a simple, clear description.           Link:  https://visuwords.com

Grammarly  is an app or extension for your browser that checks your grammar, spelling and plagiarism. Grammarly's product makes sure everything you type not only upholds accurate spelling, punctuation, and grammar, but is also clear, compelling, and easy to read. Grammarly can be an equally powerful tool for job seekers, foreign students and English language learners, and non-native English-speaking professionals. Fortunately, you can count on Grammarly's free version to help you catch and remedy a slew of common mistakes. This can save you time and safeguard your credibility while making sure your writing gives the write right impression. And the free offering doesn't stop there.

  ClassDojo is a free digital platform that focuses on establishing a fun learning/classroom environment with the collaboration of students, teachers, and parents. It offers different profiles for teachers, students, and parents. The person using the application chooses which group he/she belongs to when registering. In class dojo, users can share photos, videos, and messages. ıt engages students with fun characters. Thanks to classDojo, the teacher can share the materials, tasks, and homework and assign students for assignments. It is a very productive platform especially for younger students because both students and parents can easily follow what is done in the lesson and homework from the classdojo. https://www.classdojo.com

 🧿 🧿 Hello, my name is Sena. I was born in 1999.   I studied primary and secondary school in public schools in Acıbadem. After that, I went to Dilko Anatolian High School. Actually, Dilko is a private high school. Now, I study at Yeditepe University and this is my senior year in here :( My department is English Language Teaching.

Minecraft Adventures in English            Minecraft has two modes. First one is survival mode, where users must collect materials, and the other one is creative mode, where users must create the most intricate buildings possible. Throughout exploring the Minecraft universe, learners may solve interesting puzzles, meet new people, solve riddles, and plenty more in Minecraft Adventures in English.      This game enables young students of various ages to practice English through having some fun. This is targeted for A1 and higher students and includes a variety of assignments and activities to do. For a whole-class activity this game could be projected onto the main screen and could be played in class for grammar teachings and etc. https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/marketplace/pdp?id=3b0656c3-1f6a-4c97-9147-ef1fe328ea73

         Hello, my name is Görkem. I am 22 and I was born in Yozgat. I studied primary, secondary, and highschool in Yozgat. Then, I entered university in 2018. Now, I study English Language Teaching at Yeditepe University. Next year, I am going to graduate from university.   

      Hello, my name is Melis. I was born in 1999. I studied primary, secondary and high school at Fenerbahce College and I went to Atasehir Doga College for one year in high school. Currently, I'm studying English Language Teaching at Yeditepe University and I'm in my senior year.