Muhammed Aydoğdu

   Flipgrid is another app that can be used for remote teaching to make it more interactive. Main focus is to speak and to respond to a thread in class discussion. With this app, students record a video of themselves answering a question asked by teacher, they can use filters or emojis if they don't want to be seen, then they share their ideas about the topic.You can regulate your discussion in a way that will just permit students to enter your discussion and prevent others from entering. Recording a video for a dicsussion is not something that students usually do in education. That's why this app will provide interaction and make lessons more enjoyable. Here, I started a discussion about whether mobile phones should be banned at schools or not.

    Padlet is an educational application that can be used in remote teaching to make it more interactive. This app provides students whole class collobration to do synchorous research task and doing&tracking group projects. In Padlet, you can create an interactive board on which students can write or show a picture, you can create a mindmap or allow students to do it, you can start a discussion and you can use a map if your topic is related ro geography. Here, I prepared an interactive board to which students are expected to tell about their favorite tourist places.

  Edpuzzle is another app that can be used in remote teaching to make it more interactive. It enables you to customize a video. You can crop a video, add multiple choice or open ended questions or a note at whichever part of the video you want. You can also add voiceover which will replace the video's existing audio with an explanation in your own words or language. Here, I prepared a listening practice through which students will listen the song I inserted and choose correct lyrics.

    Jamboard is an app that can be used in remote teaching to do it more interactive. It can be used for both synchronous and asynchronous callobrative tasks and writing. In this app, when you write, draw or do any kind change such as adding label in your own screen, it will appear in your students screen as well. You can easily invite your students to your Jam by simply sharing a link with them. You can allow them to do changes in your jam by making them editor, or you can just let them watch what you do in your Jam by making them viewer. I think social and cognitive presences will increase with the use of this app as they will be more active during lectures and feel the presence of their classmates. In this image, I prepared a Jam which requires students to write the names of the animals in picture as I writed three of them.

   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 ...