Today's Era In Education

 No word needed, eh? Well, it was rough, I'll be honest but also it was beautiful. The most beautiful part of this course was that it made me go out of my comfort zone. I've learned many things and I feel a little more confident about technology. Also, we dealt with the hardships together with my best friend and that is another great side of this course. I want to thank to my dear friend Gülsüm. I'm proud of us since we are both not good at technology. This is a big success for us. If we want to talk about assigments, I accept that they are good to learn but there is also a negative side for me: they really called for facility. For example, while we were making our 3D images, Assemblr was heavy for our computer and we couldn't even upload some images we found. My partner waited for 3 hours just to sign in to the app. Powtoon was also the same. I had to reopen my computer sometimes because it stopped working. So maybe the websites or app could be eaiser to use. Buttt, no...

 Hello everyone! We have came to the end of this year in Turkey. In an other saying, this is my last assignment. In this assignment me and  Gülsüm  have created a webquest. Students may don't know how to make an assignment we give them so they feel confused, unmotivated and insufficient sometimes. Here is where the webquests come. In a webquest, teachers supply all the information to them in detail. We teach them everything and give them the tools and examples. Because it is an internet based project, students can use them everytime as their guide. They are consist of an introduction, task, process and evaluation part. In our webquest, we chose a project from a book we were given and made it technology-enhanced. The original project was creating a hadmade sports magazine. We turned it into an e-magazine! We wanted them to create a magazine in Canva. We used BookWidgets  as our tool. It is a really useful website. You can see our webquest by clicking  here . Or b...

  Hello hello hello. Your new and more contemporary Gamze salutes you.      Today, I am here to announce to you that I have a new hardest duty since anytime I say "It's the hardest.", the more challenging duty has came this term. Our hardest friend is called Augmented Reality . With this technology, you can view pictures, videos and 3D images in a 3D environment. It means that you can see a 3D image, video or a picture in anywhere in front of you.     For our assignment we used Assemblr. It was good enough but caused some problems as well. The app was heavy for my computer so it took a while to make our videos or 3D image in it. Also, the app which is on our phones don't always scan the codes. For our assignment we had to choose a city and narrate it in a handout with using AR.  Gülsüm and I chose Luxor because I love Egypt. Let's look at our work! Material Design AR - Gamze Şanlı I hope you like it. See you!

🍙 Welcome! 🍙  Today I won't present you something you don't know (if you read my last post) but a different version of it. There is a small difference.     Last week, I have told you about what a flipped classroom is. It is an approach to the classroom environment in which w e use some tools such as videos, slides before the class to prepare students for the lesson, than give them the chance to learn themselves. Roughly, we only prepare our students but they learn themselves. Last week we made a vocabulary teaching video for the middle school students. This time we have created a grammar teaching video for high school prep clasroom.     While making our video, we used  Powtoon as our tool again. Because as I understood, learning how to use a website is harder than creating a video. So we continued with a tool we already knew. Even if the problems of Powtoon still remains -such as not being able to make our video longer than three minutes- since we know h...

 Hola everyone, welcome to y'all! Today I am here with a tough duty. Let's talk about it.     This duty's subject is flipped classroom approach. It is an approach which includes student-centered environment and aims to make students active. So basically we make students learn themselves. We use some tools such as videos, slides before the class to prepare students for the lesson, than give them the chance to learn themselves. With that feature of this approach, the main role in the class goes for the pupils and the side role for the teacher.     In this assignment, me and my partner -bestie- present you a video and a handout we have created for a flipped classroom. The hardest part of it was creating the video. Since we had no experience in this matter, we couldn't see the problematic parts before we faced to them. Also, we used Powtoon as our tool and it apparently caused some problems as well. The first problem was that, my friendo couldn't edit our video so I...

Welcome to my first duty friends! It was hard but enjoyable but hard...     I made a language awarness task with my bestie again. In these tasks, the most important thing is helping students to make them discover. We make them notice. This type of learning is called as " inductive learning ". In our work, we created a corpus for our students' discovery. Corpus is a collection of written texts from different sources. In the corpus we made they all include two particular words. You can see it below. Then, we made some exercises in wich they can use their own earnings and develop themselves. And all these are called " data driven learning ". Super efficient way to lecture.     We decided to prepare our work in the theme of Marauder's Map from Harry Potter because we believe it will attract our students more. I found different sentences from my Harry Potter books and made a corpus while my friend was making practices. Then we put them together with Canva. Here...

    It's me, Gamze, again. But what's happening and why am I here? I will explain to you but firstly let's have a brief chat, shall we?     I was in a short school holiday in Turkey. In these days I did nothing but watching anime and reading books/manga since I was at home all the time. I've watched Neon Genesis Evangelion for the second time, finished Attack on Titan's manga and started to read Jujutsu Kaisen as well as Harry Potter (second time again). Complicated right? I blow hot and cold. I hope you had funier times than mine. Now I am excited for my new term and I will try to do better than I did last term.     To come to the other issue, why I'm here, the reason is that  I have a new course to share with you! It's called Material Design in English Language Teaching. It's about technology in education. My teacher is going to give me some assignments and I will share them with you. Just like we did in the last term. However, I will act as a teache...

      Hello fellas, it's my last hello to you.     We have came to the end of this semester so the end of my Educational Technologies class. Let's talk about my earnings and thoughts about that adventure before my farewell to you.     I've always knew that technology is important and going to be important in English language teaching for me. However; I wasn't quite sure how I can use technology as a future teacher and I was afraid of not knowing enough about it. I was right. Because I've learned so many things like infographics, making a podcast, digital storytelling etc. Besides, I have built a relevance between these things and and education. For example, I can use digital storytelling and infographics to teach boring subjects in a funny way! I can know my students better with bookreview and they can do this for themselves. The only thing that I did and I'm not really certain is posters. I don't know how I can use them for class environment.   ...

      Hello theree my friends! We're close to the end of my duties for my class, but who knows, maybe I continue with another aim?     So let me introduce you one of my last duties, it's digital storytelling. There were three options for this assignment and in the one we chose, we had to make a video about a process. But who are we? It's me and my best friend! We are our besties for a long time and now we made a video together 👯. She loves bullet journals and I love drawing, what could we do? We tell you about making a weekly log for a bullet journal! Her name is Gülsüm Karakuş and here is the blog of her in case you wanna look at:  https://moodmudblood.blogspot.com/     Digital storytelling is such a great way to explain something really. Because it is short, you never get bored. It's very useful for any field, so it is for language as well. The most boring subject in language is memorizing new words for me. Therefore the first thing that came t...

     Hi friends! Another week at our homes with pandemic. Doesn't sound well right?     This week I made an infographic. I used Canva as my website again and it was fun. I've learned some statistics. I think infographics are very useful because they have short informations, nice illustrations (as your wish) so that they don't bother the person who reads. They can be used in language for giving learners short informations - especially about boring subjects - and also they can be used for explaining and teaching new techniques /activities to teachers for class. Here is my work if you wanna look; I hope you like it :) See you a week later, take care of yourselves!

Helloo my dear lovely happy followers, this week I’ve made a movie poster! 🎬       We had two choices, making a movie poster from a book or making a magazine cover. I like watching movies but can’t say I've read magazines to be honest so I chose the first one. My poster is from the book that I’ve made it’s review last week, Story of A Downfall. I chose that book since it was hard for me to find a book that I’ve read and wasn’t adapted to a movie. Also, I like movies of old circles so I would like to watch a movie of that book. Here is my work;      Actually I Iike designing works but I don’t know why, making a movie poster wasn’t that entertaining for me. I have used a website whose name is “Canva” and it was useful enough to make this assignment well. I am not sure about giving similar homeworks to my future students though. I think it depends on the class that I will give.      It’s the end of my post. See you later and take care of...

       Welcome my cheerful friends. Let me introduce you my duty for this week.       We created some groups and with that groups we made a padlet page! Our teacher gave us some subjects and we chose “Bullying at Schools”. It was beneficial for me because I am a student too and I must have basic knowladge about this subject. I have learned new points and I realized that in my high school years I was a bystander and I may even bullied my peers on some occasions. On the other hand, if we are going to talk about padlet, I can say that it wasn’t funny for me like the book review. Because the website is a little bit of confusing for me. At first, we couldn’t even join the padlet. After we managed it, we had a problem about how we can make appear our names under/on our writings and at last we couldn’t put our writings in an order. Background and colors are so beautiful but it’s really hard to get at least until you learn how to use padlet. Also, I am a ...

Hellooo! I wasn't here last week so I thought that we should make a cheerfull entry because we are cheerful people right?     This week I made my first wiki page. I was supposed to choose a book that I like and talk about it on my page. I chose a psychological drama which is called "Story of a Downfall" by Stefan Zweig. For me, writing a book review wasn't that hard. On the contrary it was fun. I really loved wiki because I can see my classmates' recommendations. I think I am going to read all of them. Also it has a basic design so it was so easy to understand. I haven't faced any hardness. I think I am going to use wiki with my students in the future since it's a good way to make them know their classmates better. I think it will be useful to getting my students close with themselves.     In case you want to take a look at my book review, there is my wiki page here; Story of a Downfall Author: Stefan Zweig Genre: Pshychological Drama The Number of Pages:...

    Hello to everyone! Welcome to my new post. In this post, you gonna witness another thing I am really amateur at: my first podcast in my life.      Since I am using this blog for my educational technologies class, our teacher gave us an assignment for this week and that is it. In my podcast, I will be talking about what I would like to change about the world and how I would personally contribute to that change. Gamze Şanlı · Changing The World     Making a podcast was a little bit of hard for me. Because I am not a talkative person and I don't like to listen my voice either. I was  stressed at first. But I should get over that, I know. So, maybe that assignment is a step to achieve this right? After making it I was satisfied for making a tool that I have some obsessions and at that time, I began to see the enjoyable parts of it. You can make it funny or calming with adding sounds, you can make jokes - I couldn't do that of course 😕- Al...

      Technology comes with so many facilites and because of that reason we adapt it to our life without hesitation. In the century that we live in, technology has a big place so it's obvious that we should adapt it to education which is a part of our life.     Technology helps us so  many different ways in education. It makes easier to practising. For example, in language we can find native people to talk. In addition to that, people used to spent so much time to get an information about a subject but now, it's free for taking on internet! Also, in that century, probably your students will be the people who use technology in their daily life more than you do and you should catch up them to be effective in class. However, there won't be any benefit if you don't know how to use technology. Therefore, firstly be sure you know how to teach with education.     Use benefits of techology, learn with technology. Look at it as a necessity. You will not re...

Welcome to y'all! It's me and my amateur blog here. It takes reaaally long time for me to achieve something here for now but it's gonna be ok I hope. I am going to talk and share about 21st century education for my Educational Technologies class. However, you are going to be exposed to me, too :) I hope we all have fun.