Elif's Blog

  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...

      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...

Hello!! This week in my Educational Technologies class we learned the rules of digital storytelling, its use in English language teaching, and how to create one. We had three options for our assignment. My friend Büşra Hazal and I chose to create a fictional story. We used Canva while creating our digital story. It was very easy to open a profile and use Canva. Also, I believe the best thing about using Canva was being able to work on the same thing from different computers at the same time with my friend Hazal. However, it was a little bit hard to add a soundtrack to our story and we had a hard time figuring out how to adjust the volume of the soundtrack. Using digital storytelling in English language teaching classes has many benefits for students because it appeals to both visual and audio learners and can help learners to focus on the lesson and the subject better. But creating an authentic and beneficial digital story might be difficult for some teachers and students who were as...