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Goodbye Again :))

       Hello :)) We have come to the end of the term and my Current Issues class is also ending. Through the term, we learned how to create various types of learning materials by integrating different types of technologies into our teaching. My favorite part about this course was being able to see how my technological skills improved after completing all the tasks. It was also very beneficial to improve our collaborative skills by working with a peer during the tasks. Büşra and I had so much fun exploring new tools and technologies. However, sometimes it was a little bit hard to keep up and complete all the tasks. My favorite task was creating an AR/VR teaching material. Our topic was "Marine Pollution" and I loved exploring 360 videos about the topic. My least favorite task was creating a flipped teaching video because it was difficult to record our voices and synchronize the voice and the video. Students who are going to take this course should complete all the tas...

Health and Gliglish :)

     Hello :) This week in my Current Issues class Büşra Hazal Sert and I created an AI integrated material. For our material, we chose the topic "Health Problems and Doctor's Appointments." We decided to integrate "Gliglish" into our task. Because Gliglish enables students to experience real-life situations by having a dialogue with AI. Through the process Hazal and I had so much fun trying Gliglish because it is very easy to use and it has so many options. However, for our assignment, we asked our students to try the topic "Appointment at the Doctor's Office" taking place in Gliglish. I believe AI tools will have an important place in language education as it becomes more authentic. From the links below you can check Büşra Hazal Sert's blog and our AI integrated material.  Büşra Hazal Sert's blog, Our AI integrated material, Goodbye and have fun using Gliglish :))

Save Our Seas

      Hello!! This week in my Current Issues in ELT course we were assigned to create an augmented/virtual reality integrated teaching material. My friend Büşra Hazal and I decided to create a teaching material that explores and raises awareness on a global issue. We chose Marine pollution because it is an important issue that affects all humanity. That is why in our material we explained marine pollution and supported our explanations with 360 videos. At the end of our material, we also added a homework section and assigned our students to create a poster and start acting. Hazal and I had so much fun while choosing 360 videos for our content. There are so many videos that explain water pollution and integrate students into the environment of polluted oceans. Even though right now AR/VR technologies look a little bit hard to apply in language teaching classrooms due to the lack of technological devices, I believe that they will have great importance in the future tha...

Flipped Learning

     Hello!! Last week we learned about the Flipped Classroom Approach in our Current Issues course and for this week's assignment my friend Büşra Hazal Sert and I created a "grammar teaching video for a flipped EFL classroom." Flipped Learning is an approach in which the classroom is an active place where students play an active role by applying and creating about the content they learned through videos and materials at their homes. Enabling students to play an active role in the learning process, promoting student-centered learning, integrating technology into the learning process, and making the course content easily accessible can be counted as the advantages of flipped learning. However, there are also some disadvantages which can be exemplified such as; requiring too much preparation time or the fact that not all students might watch the videos or volunteer to participate. Although flipped learning has various advantages and disadvantages it is an effective approach...

Corpus-Based Material

       Hello!! It has been a long time since my last post. Now I am a 3 grade student in ELT. I passed my Educational Technologies course and now I am going to use my blog for my new course; "Current Issues in ELT." For this week's assignment, my friend Büşra Hazal and I prepared a corpus-based worksheet. Our worksheet included steps and activities that encouraged student and teacher corpus use. Our grammar focus on the worksheet was frequency adverbs based on unit 4 from MEB's prep class book. Our vocabulary focus was comparing always and never and their uses. Our main objective was to prepare a worksheet for students to practice adverbs of frequencies and integrate corpus work into their learning process. After completing this worksheet our students will be more acquainted with corpus and how it can be used. They will also be able to start using frequency adverbs in sentence frames. However, there are also some difficulties and problems students might face while ...

Goodbye Post :)

  Hello! Our term is ending and my journey in my Educational Technologies class is coming to an end. Before this class, I did not know that technology can actually be very integrated with ELT. With this class, I learned that there are actually many tools that can be used by teachers to improve their students' learning process. I also learned that time is changing and each day technology is becoming a very important part of our education system. My English teachers in the past were only using limited tools and some of them were not using any. With this course, I learned some different and entertaining tools that I can use with my future students. This course also improved my technological and collaborative skills. Learning how to use a different tool every week and usually working with a peer or peers on an assignment taught me a lot. Our first assignment was to create a blog page that belongs to us. This was something that I have never done before. That is why it was very excitin...

Digital Poster: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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      Hi! This week in my Educational Technologies we were assigned to create a digital poster. We had two options. I chose to create a movie poster. Our duty was to create a movie poster about a book that we have read. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is one of my favorite books. That is why I decided to create a movie poster about it. The book is about Arthur Dent's escape from Earth by hitchhiking with an alien named Ford Prefect just before the end of the world. I used Canva to create my movie poster. Because I have used Canva before with my friend Büşra Hazal for our digital story assignment and I am more familiar with it. Creating things with Canva and using Canva is very easy and entertaining. Canva's templates helped me a lot while creating my poster. After following the instructions of my assignment my poster was ready. I would definitely give a task like this to my future students. Because creating a movie poster based on a book can make them enjoy book...