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VoiceThread is an interactive collaboration and sharing tool that enables students to build online presentations by adding images, documents, and videos, and other media to which other users can add comments for discussion.

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• "I would suggest Voice Thread to make a difference and create podcast-like lessons. It could be hard or take longer time to create a creative, interactive and intriguing content compared to other tools though. It works great especially when combined with a literary work, i.e. a poem, a prose or even a short story." (Yunus Emre Alkan, 20 April)

Ludwig is the first sentence search engine that helps you write better English by giving you contextualized examples taken from reliable sources.

• Also, as an alternative to COCA, I use Ludwig Guru where I can check a word's definition, synonyms, antonyms, collocations, and examples in use as a mini corpus. (Nazlı Meriçli, April 20)

Grammarly’s sophisticated AI not only corrects your grammatical mistakes but also makes your writing more understandable and helps you make the right impression on the reader based on your audience and goals. In addition, Grammarly is able to check the tone of your correspondence, provide synonym suggestions to make your text more readable and precise, and even check your documents for plagiarism.

• You can choose your goals like audience and formality. Also, it provides suggestions for typos (typographical error). However, the free version is limited. I can encourage my students to use these features to minimize their mistakes and learn the correct versions, as well. (Büşra Kut, 22 April)

• As a student myself, I find Grammarly helpful with correcting spelling, punctuation, and other basic writing errors. (Nazlı Meriçli, April 20)

• I see Grammarly as a much better version since it recommends vocabularies by stating the reasons such as this vocabulary is not common in written language or this word choice is not appropriate in this context, etc. It allows me to know how my writing sounds by stating this text sounds friendly or aggressive; you should arrange the choice of words in that way, etc at the same time. Alongside spelling and grammar, It helps me to have more professional and meaningful writings in the social sense. (Eda Akdeniz, 19 April)

• As a student, Grammarly helped me a lot to make me notice my spelling or article mistakes. Especially while submitting an important assignment or writing an essay, it is a lifesaver. (Fatma Feyza Dişbudak, 22 April)

FrazeIt is a powerful sentence concordancer. It gives you access to millions of phrases coming from top writers, thousands of famous quotes and most importantly: a handy way to manage your own sentences. Adding new content is easy, either on site, by email or while browsing the web. Search can be done by keywords,tags, authors and more.

• If you are looking for the definition, synonym, image, the native speakers' pronunciation of the word, or the way word is used in the sentences, it will be really helpful for your students and yourself. Seeing all together is a great opportunity and timesaver. It is suitable for both uses in the class or individually. (Fatma Feyza Dişbudak, 18 April)