Let's Array Words! Wordle!

      Hi all, it's me again! In this post I will write my last assignment and introduce you a new tool that our friends presented in the class. Its name is "Wordle"!


      What is Wordle? –It is a tool which enables its users to generate “word clouds” from the text the user provides. He/she can changes the font and color, decides its layout (vertical, horizontal), and also its language properties including removing common words. 

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to your own desktop to use as you wish.

      You doesn't have to sign up to create a word cloud on wordle. You just click create and start writing the words. That's it, just that simple. You can share your Wordle in any platform as any kind of picture like "*.jpg", "*.png"...


      In language teaching, teacher can use it as a brainstorming board or cloud, if the aim is to teach some certain words than just gives an assignment about the topic that includes creating a word cloud.

Word Cloud of Big Data Technologies

Advantages

• Free to use
• Write a word repeatedly to make it bigger on the cloud
• Easily remove the common words
• Change the colors

Disadvantages

      I couldn't find any disadvantage of this tool. If you think that there is some bad things about it, you can comment under this post.

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Microsoft Office Publisher!

      Hi all, it's me again! In this post I will write about our last assignment and about Microsoft Office Publisher. 

      As a last assignment our teacher gave some tools to present to the class. I and Oğuz presented Microsoft Office Publisher. We had a pair work of course, he introduced the tool than I show the steps one by one with the options and we concluded our presentation with the samples that were prepared by Oğuz.
    
      For the technical knowledge, I can say that this tool is very handy to use and easy to understand. It has Microsoft Office based interface and if you can use any kind of Office tool, you can also use this tool."Publisher helps you create great small business marketing material, do desktop publishing from your own home or office, and even offers greeting cards for most occasions." 
      
      In language teaching, teachers can use this tool to give their students such assignments that can improve their creativity, writing skills. For example a teacher can assign his/her students to create a brochure about a place that they love or a menu that includes favorite meals of students.


      All the creator of these assignments consist of three easy steps:

      

      1. Choose your template,

      2. Organize it, 

      3. Save it.

      When it is saved, you can share or use it anywhere you want. Like every tool, this tool has advantages and disadvantages too.

Advantages

• You can create many things like brochure, greeting card, menu , invitation card.
• It is handy to use, so you can personalize, design as you want.
• It is available in almost every language.

Disadvantages

• It's charged when the trial ends.

      These are the examples :

                  

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Learn English with Lingualeo!

      Hi all, it's me again! In this post I'm going to introduce you an application that can be installed to windows, android and ios based cell phones or tablets, also you can use its website on your computer. The name of the application is: English with Lingualeo. If you want to use this application or website (both are the same thing) you may use your facebook or google plus account or just you can use your e-mail to register. When your registration finishes, it asks you some questions about your skills, abilities, hobbies etc...

      You can practice or study with this application and you can watch videos in English with subtitles. But the most important feature of the videos is, if you don't know a word in the video you can just click on the word and see its meaning.

                                

      Lingualeo has also grammer lessons but you have to pay to use its all features but without paying anything you can use it, too.  For example small tests can be done by this application at the outside of the class.

                             

      In conclusion, learners of English can use this application to improve their level, knowledge and practice what they already know.

External links:
Lingualeo for Android

Lingualeo for Ios

Lingualeo for Windows Phone

Lingualeo for Desktop/Notebook/Web

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