WebQuest Experience

 

Our WebQuest Experience!

            Hi All! I hope you are doing well! I am here with my last assignment this semester. And this time, I and my classmate Burak created a WebQuest for you. As you wonder what it is a WebQuest, here the description comes: A WebQuest is an online learning activity where students follow a structured inquiry process to explore a specific topic using internet resources. It typically involves tasks, resources, and evaluation criteria, fostering critical thinking and collaborative skills.

            While we are creating this masterpiece our reference has been “Ortaöğretim Genel Müdürlüğü”’s “Hazırlık İngilizce” which is one of the interactive coursebook it offers. In that book there are units, and we chose unit 14 “Travel”. We created our WebQuest in the theme of traveling, and our work mainly focuses on exploring. We used Zunal for our WebQuest.

            As I mentioned before, this was a pair work, and I and Burak created same WebQuest with different blogpost. (You can see his post by clicking here.) Also, you can see our work by clicking here. When it comes to write about our process, it was getting easier and easier. As we get aware of how we can complete our task more fluid and organized, I have not faced crucial difficulties during creating this task. Our strength is we did everything according to rules we had given. And our weakness is we might spend so much time on details. Overall, it was an enjoyable task, and if I had the chance, I would use WebQuest in my class.

AR/VR Integration!

Hi Again!

            This time we made our task with augmented reality and more advanced digital tools. I and my classmate Burak worked together to create a in-class material for A2 level worksheet for Prep-class students. (By the way you can check his blog by clicking here.)

            We were tasked with using QR codes and examination required augmented reality. I think we did a good job as we really get used to integrate such materials in our work. But I cannot tell lie that majority of the work has been done by Burak. I have just completed the missing parts and revise our work by the light of the feedback of our instructor.

            Now let me summarize what this “Augmented Reality” is and what actually we integrated it by doing. Augmented reality (AR) adds digital elements to a live view often by using the camera on a smartphone. We can say for Augmented reality experiences include Snapchat lenses and the game Pokémon Go. Virtual reality (VR) implies a complete immersion experience that shuts out the physical world. So, if we create digital reality and integrate it into real-place and/or real-times, it becomes VR. 

            Lastly, I think I can use AR and VR in my classroom, as it is fun to use and easy to use. If you would like to take a glimpse of our work you can click here.

FLIPPED CLASSROOMS!

 

Our Flipped Classroom Assignment!

Hi All! Today I am going to present you to a blessing for one of our modern teaching approaches, if you said, "Is it Flipped Classroom Approach?" you make it right! So, let me give some information about flipped classroom then talk about our assignment.

First of all, the flipped learning is one of the methodologies that gives teachers the opportunity to prioritize the learning process of the class by assigning students lecture and investigate the materials and the presentations to be viewed at home or outside of class.

Moreover, this approach offers various advantages such as: 

• Allows teachers to spend less time introducing new lessons.
• Allows students to develop their learning skills independently.
• Allows teachers to create more attractive lessons.
• Allows students to catch up their classmates.
• Allows teachers to use the materials they have created before.
• Allows students to understand the lesson with supports.

I have finished this task with my classmate Burak (you can check his blog here). I personally find easy to complete this task as it is not complicated as corpus project. What we did well are: We organized quickly and found the concept we would like to work on. What the things are challenged us are: We may create more professional work (but we do not have access to premium tools sadly) and we may get feedback from our instructor.

You can check our video by clicking here and our hand-out from here.

Timeline!

 

A Quick Look of History of Teachnolohy in Education and its Basic Contribution to Language Learning 

    Hi Again! This time I assigned to create a timeline based on advacement of technology in education. A short, timeline which inclueded basic steps in language learning. History of language learning is improving more rapidly day by day and it is very fascinating to witness the process.

    I liked to desing my own (not completely my own, to be honest I used a prototype I liked a lot) timeline using Canva was a nice experience, I feel I get used to use these kind of staff more and more, and I very like ideea of being able use more by the time I graduated to serve in real teaching environment.

    I did not like the there were not such a wide range of knowledge, almost every site I visited and every articles I scannned more or less offered similar facts. I was suggested to check some articles which my teacher imformed but I was unable to reach them as I have not had these materials yet.

    In the end creating a digital timeline was a good improvement in my opinion and if you want to take a closer look of my infographic you can go there clicking here.

My Infographic Project!

                                             My Infographic Project

    And this time I was given a task that I create an infographic. If I had to summarize what an infographic is, it is abundant with images and visual, effective, and attractive. Infographics are for as the name tells us giving information. The way of providing the information is like a poster something about the topic written on it and the receivers are acquiring the information they need. It can also easily draw attention, so curious readers can learn something from it.

    I use Canva for this assignment. It was fun but I think I will not suggest such a thing to my students. Because it is more suitable for those already interested in creating advertisements or such online works. It can be hard for students, and it was already hard for me. Nonetheless, I have done my work well and you can check my work here. 

My Poster Project

Poster Project!

    Hi again! This time I was asked for creating an online poster for a book I read before. The task was what if a movie shot about that book and you were supposed to create a poster for it, what would it be?

    This time task was easy. Most probably because I have already known what I would like to see. As a fan of the Lord of the Rings universe, of course, it would be from there. Besides this, the book named “Silmarillion” deserves a perfect movie, so I chose to create a poster for it.

    You can check, examine, and make recommend my poster from here. Actually, I quickly did this job. Even I could spend much more time on this assignment, it is still a good work as I did it voluntarily.

    The answer to the question that whether I use this kind of project or not is unfortunately I will not because without any passion or profession preparing a poster cannot meet its full potential. Yes, I said I enjoyed it while I was working on it, but it would be just for fun purposes, so it cannot use for educational aims. Making something useful for teaching should be more complicated.

Internet Project Experience!

 

Interned-based Project!

I was asked for creating a padlet page while using information from multiple websites. Let me briefly explain what I did for this task: It was a group assignment and we did a great job! We were asked for creating an informative page in case of using it for teaching English. (This is also the part explaining why this assignment is about “21st Century Learning”)

Using Padlet for this project was fun. I suppose I would use Padlet as a learning or teaching tool. I find it very useful and creative. While I was working on the task, I was separately searching about the capabilities of Padlet because I very much liked it.

I want to talk about how we did our assignment. We were asked for creating a KWL page (It stands for “What we know”, ”Want to know”, and “What we learned”) page and chose a topic given. We selected “Bullying at School.” As our topic and we thought and wrote about it widely and wisely.

Finally, as self-improvement for 21st Century Learning, I saw a nice opportunity to use the internet for teaching English. As this tool can be used for teaching everything, it can be specifically useful for teaching foreign languages because it is supported by the internet itself (I mean there is an uncountable amount of knowledge on the internet).

As I wrote before, I really enjoyed it while I was doing this task. You can also look at our work here.

21st Century Learning

 

21^st Century Learning

The 21^st Century is different from any other era of humanity. As humanity never advanced ever before, we experience new, surprising, and exciting events, technologies, and discoveries. Our current period, the 21^st Century, offers us drastically changed ways to live, communicate, work and learn.

21^st Century Learning is outshining other centuries by using the Internet and online platforms. With the invention of the Internet which is the largest column of our current entire community. Education also benefits from online methods and the internet itself. Both teachers and students or all kinds of learners participate in online lessons via internet connection without the need of going to schools. The teacher can give their lessons with computer-integrated useful programs and can use very extended digital material such as slides and videos. Students can benefit from online homework and online lesson independently.

In my opinion, 21^st Century Learning means digital learning, being able to use digital platforms and use the internet as many as possible. It is additionally important for language learning. As students and teachers can be united from all over the globe, we can study foreign languages ignoring distances. Furthermore, thanks to the internet we can reach any sources we demand. If we are learning a new language this can be especially useful, we can find any kind of grammar knowledge, reading or listening activities, or tips for learning that language. I have already used these kinds of things while I have been learning English. And as a 21^st Century teacher, I will be sure about my students also use them too.