Muhammed Aydoğdu

   Pear Deck is an add-on that can be used with Google Slides for interactive teaching. It provides many features to teachers or any kind of managers. You can send your students a code so that they connect to your slide and do the activities which you prepared for them before. I prepared a slide which begins with an instuction and then an activity aiming to evaluate students prior knowledge about the topic I will teach. Then, I prepared an matching activity for students in which they will match vegetables and their names. Later I prepared an activity in which there is an incorrect sentence, students are expected to correct it. Finally, at the end of the lesson, I check students Pear Deck experience , whether they liked it or not.

    Edmodo is an app for managing your class. You can share post to give information about anything, send your students assignments, folders and a quiz,  Your students can easily join your class with a class code. Your students can write comment to your post and ask a question to you publicly or privately. It is a very functional app in this way. An easy way to manage your class online. Here is an image of my welcome post in my Edmodo class.

    There are three types of presence, cognitive, social and teaching presences. Cognitive presence includes exchanging information, appliying new ideas and connecting ideas between students. Students are required to be active, productive to be cognitively active in class. Social presence refers to students' engaging with  each other and working callobratively. Finally, we can count sharing personal memories and setting cirruculum as examples of teching presence.     When it comes to online education, medium of these presences varies. For example, usually social presence requires students to be in face to face comminication but instead students use devices such as computer or phones to engage with each other. Similarly, about cognitive presence, students usually exchange information in physical enviroment but in distant education, they connect each other through apps like "Zoom". Again in teaching presence, teacher is not in front of his students physically but ...

     The main assumption is that people learn better from combination of pictures and words rather than from words alone. Humans have two separate channels which are auditory channel and visual channel for processing information and each of these channels has a limited capacity. So, using both channels in a well-organized way will be beneficial for better learning.