Last Words...

Hello for the last time my dear readers

This year I’ve written so many things and share my opinions with you. I began writing my blog because of my Instructional Technologies and Material Design course. At first I was little bit scared of writing posts and share on my blog. But with the help of my teacher’s instructional informations and my attempt to learn how to write, I covered a distance.

When I look at my early posts about teaching with technology, I saw the saying that technology is really important in teaching process is true and with the experience I get while writing this blog I can approve this with a clear conscience.

This experience taught me lots of thing. Firstly I’ve learned so many tools that will be useful for my classes in future. Secondly I realized that technology is not that much scaring to use in classroom. Lastly I didn’t do my tasks because they are my duty I enjoyed the process.

There were tasks that I loved and didn’t like. The one I loved so much was Digital Storytelling because the task required to being creative. To achieve this we think about so many crazy things and it was really funny. Also creating a short cartoon movie gave me the feeling of that we DID something. But Evaluating a Website task was boring for me. Also it was hard for me to find a website suitable for task.

 In the end i can say that with the help of this course I've learned that I'm capable to use technology in classroom. I'm happy to share my experience with you.
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Best Regards...

Infographics

Ola!

I think you can understand how international person I am from the very beginning of this post 😅

Okay let’s put aside my colourful character, this week our task was to create infographics about our favourite web 2.0 tools. Infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly (taken from Wikipedia). So when it comes to my favourite web 2.0 tools I listed 4 of them. Firstly, I really enjoy while using Voscreen. Because you don’t feel like you are making practice of English language skills, it feels like watching video clips just for fun in your free time. To mention about Padlet it can be said that it is very useful especially for group work while Duolingo is so practical for individuals. Blogger is suitable for who loves to share his/her ideas, experiences and thoughts.  
I used Canva for creating my infographic. It is easy to use and allow you to be creative

Virtual Collector: RSS

Hello everyone,

Do you feel like you have to read so many things but cannot organize things and get confused sometimes?

I think everyone can experience that kind of moment in their life. Having so many article, news, etc. to read but because they are far away from each other we need something to put all of them together for us. Actually there is something for what we demand and this magical tool is called RSS.

RSS is a tool that is used for you to keep on following sites, blogs and podcast websites when there is a new article or post you can see it all in one page. It is really easy to use RSS. You can just go on internet find a best RSS reader for you and upload it to your computer. So you can follow your favourite blogs, news, website then it is ready for you to read them easily in a just one page. That’s it!

I’m using Feedly as a RSS reader. It is easy to use. When you open it you will see a one page. There is column in the right side of the page. In that column you can see the blogs you are following. When you click one of the blog the posts will appear on the main page.

My favourite blog is Language Garden. It is operated by an English teacher. He shares activities and stories for both learner and teachers. I recommend this blog to my teacher-to be friends because it is really funny and educational blog.

Creating Online Poster

Hi dear readers, this week our task was to creating online poster. We had 2 options we could create either movie poster or magazine poster. I chose the magazine cover project. According to task I had to create a cover for a fictitious theme magazine. I created a magazine cover for cat lovers. It contains tips for cat food, care and interesting information about cat breed. While creating my poster I tried to make it interesting and attractive. And I really enjoyed thinking about my magazine’s content. I used postermywall to create my magazine cover. Probably I will give that kind of task to my students in future. Because as they doing this task they can be inspired by cover and it can lead to create a real magazine.

Digital Storytelling

Hello again sweethearts!

I didn’t post anything last week because we were preparing digital story for you with my friend Dilruba. Digital storytelling is an entertaining way of teaching. With visual and audible effects it helps to take attention of the students.

 Creating a digital story was a really funny and enjoyable process to me. Also it made me to think creatively. We used Vyond to animate our story. After we made the scenes of our story we recorded our voice to make talk characters. For sound effects we used Freesound.

In future, I probably give this kind of task to my students. Because I think this task will give chance to be productive, creative and cooperative.

Here is our digital story. Hope you enjoy it!