Elif's Blog

Hello everyone today I am going to talk about our last assignment. We were assigned to create a podcast for our Educational Technologies class. We had four options for the content of our podcasts. My friend Hazal and I decided to create a sound-rich story. Our podcast was about a girl who was innocently playing in a playground before hearing an evil clown's laughter from the forest and the events that happens after that. My friend Hazal and I started our homework by creating our story then we recorded our voices. Finally, we added sound effects to our story and completed our assignment. Creating the story and using our imaginations was so much fun. However, it was a little bit hard to add sound effects and record our voices. I would definitely give this assignment to my future students. Because I think creating a podcast, working in pairs, and recording their voices are some benefits that encourage and improve students English knowledge and language skills. Also hearing their voi...

      Hello Everyone!!! This week my friends Salih, Büşra Hazal, and I were assigned to do collaborative work on Padlet. First, we created a wall on Padlet, then we chose a problem from the list that was given to us. We chose unemployment. After that, we started creating a KWL chart on Padlet. KWL chart is a chart that consists of three parts. The first part is the part where you write what you already know about the topic. The second part is what you want to know and the third part includes what you learned. We filled each part about the unemployment issue in Turkey. In what we learned part we found answers to our questions from what we want to know part. This way we became more knowledgeable about the unemployment issue and how it is handled by the government.      During our project; Padlet helped us to create a chart collaboratively. Me and my friends loved working and spending time together. It is very easy to create a Padlet account and start usi...