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Our last tool for Instructional Technology Class is mobile applications. I would say that mobile applications my favorite tool so far. They are easy, practical, lots of fun, cheaper (me, when I received a discounted price from Memrise:D ) Anyway, I found them super-efficient and effective! There are several apps that I enjoy using such as Quizlet, Lyricstraining, Memrise and recently I have discovered Lirica  which is designed in English, German, Spanish languages to learn these languages as well. I studying Spanish there and as a beginner, I found it beneficial for myself. Unfortunately, it is not suitable to learn above languages through Turkish since they are not included, that is the sad part. There are not so many applications that are designed specifically to learn languages with songs except Lyricstraining and I think there are only two, at least in the App Store to my knowledge. It would be nice to have this kind of application more and include them in the language learning...

 Educaplay & Wordwall These tools look similar in some ways, and  I would say they are quite useful for the end of class to make it a little bit colorful the lesson. There is a lot of choices in both tools so I am sure students will not get bored easily.

  We learned Hot Potatoes and smashed them at the end of the eighth week:) The hot potatoes is an interactive web exercise that enables teachers to create activities for their students arranging in six categories as  multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering, and gap-fill exercises. I consider it useful for specific purposes, for instance, teaching a particular grammar topic.  The arrangements of the hot potatoes as six categories seemed effective and practical to me. So, I am glad to know this tool. The only proble m is sharing part, which is not designed to send it through the web. It is unbelievable! I mean, I would be very pleased with it if sharing had been easy.

For Social Media Tool I chose Bubbly and searched for it. Bubbly is a social voice platform that allows users to create their own voice blog in 90 seconds. The users also can add images and text for their voice post if they want to and they can follow others. I think this network is pretty useful for speaking practices with an in-class base or private lessons with the students. It's not a bad idea to give speaking assignments that the teacher can check on Bubbly.

Our next tool in the Instructional Technology Class is the Podcast. The podcast is really helpful to work on listening. understanding, as well as speaking components of language learning.  Wherever you are, whatever you are doing at that moment, it is easy to tune into the various programs just with a phone and paying nothing. Starting from the 2000s the podcast has become one of the most useful tools that language learners and teachers prefer to. For instance, I really enjoy using it to develop my pronunciation and speaking skills, and as for English Hadar's Influency Podcast is one of the best around here, and for Korean I recommend IYAGI to be able to listen to natural Korean daily conversation on specific topics. Here are the links as well: https://hadarshemesh.com/influency-podcast https://talktomeinkorean.com/curriculum/iyagi-listening-in-100-natural-korean-2/