Knock Knock Knock

Before one week, while I was surfing on the Instagram, I saw an add about The Walking Dead's new game. As everyone knows that TWD is a very famous TV serie and it has lots of fans. The producers of TWD catch the technology and they release an AR game. They let you shoot the zombies while you are walking on the street. If you see someone escaping from nothing these days, don't be shock because they must be escaping from zombies which you will never see unless you download the game. 😁 I didn't try it yet but as soon as possible I will try it :) Here is a short video have fun. 😊

We are learning techniques and principles of education in our classes. And we mentioned about disabled students. So our teacher, Professor Esra Akgül Macaroğlu, wants us to prepare a storyboard scenario to regain disabled students and motivate them in the classroom. Me and my teammates Melih Kargın, Behiç Gürsoy and Aykut Kökçe prepared thsi storyboard. While we were preparing it, we considered the teaching principles and global design principles. This assignment is our final Project for the course of Principles and Techniques of Education. Don't forget "Disorders cannot obstacle anything…"

Augmented reality is often presented as a kind of futuristic technology, but a form of it has been around for years. For example, the heads-up displays in many fighter aircraft as far back as the 1990s would show information about the attitude, direction and speed of the plane, and only a few years later they could show which objects in the field of view were targets.  In the past decade, various labs and companies have built devices that give us augmented reality. In 2009, the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group presented SixthSense, a device that combined the use of a camera, small projector, smartphone and mirror. The device hangs from the user's chest in a lanyard fashion from the neck. Four sensor devices on the user's fingers can be used to manipulate the images projected by SixthSense.  Google rolled out Google Glass in 2013, moving augmented reality to a more wearable interface; in this case, glasses. It displays on the user's lens screen via a...

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EDpuzzle is an incredible-easy-to-use video platform that helps teachers save time, boost classroom engagement and improve student learning through video lessons. EDpuzzle also collects data as students watch and interact with the video.  Best of all, it’s completely free!

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Nearpod is a fascinating solution to an “all-in-one” presentation for classrooms. The app provides the ability to upload existing presentations as well as create new ones from scratch. Adding interactive features such as question/answer surveys, and drawings are easy and the pacing of presentation is controlled by the teacher.