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.

A Nice Year!

WHAT A WONDERFUL YEAR!

    The course “Educational Technologies” which I had was a good experience. I had a lot of fun during courses, assignments sometimes could be exhausting though. I learned so many things and materials/instruments, and I am sure that I will benefit from all of them.

    I first thought that integration the technology in language learning is not so needed. My thoughts are not changed because I still think that the efficiency of teachers is much more important than the technological improvement s/he uses. However, I think both the teachers and learners still need to adapt themselves to technological advancements in case of catching the requirements of this age.

The task I most liked was creating an “About Me” page. Because I lack self-confidence and am too introverted to explain myself, creating a blog about myself and adding a page completely “About Me” helps me to get over this feeling. I continue to be shy, but this course might be the first step to overcome my unpleasant habit.

I have some suggestions for this course. If I were the instructor giving this course, I prefer getting my students to create the task in school instead of giving them these as homework. I think it is important that seeing all steps is vital, as doing them as homework can cause some missed steps to occur. Even if the time limitation does not let me get my students to do their tasks in the classroom, maybe I would choose to decrease the number of assignments. But I wish I had more courses like this, and I would have taken this course as a continuant one like “Educational Technologies I and II”. Lastly, I would like to thank my teacher and all my readers. See you again!

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.

My First Podcast!

A Podcast Trial and an Idea of a Green World

Hi again! I have prepared a podcast today. My podcast is a short talk about how to make the world a better place. I have talked about my opinion on how should we live. If you want to listen to my short podcast you can listen to it here.

Creating my first podcast has been fun. I have already had an idea about “Better World” so writing the script is easy but the recording process has made me stressed. Because of not knowing how to use such devices and programs or platforms for such a work. I have felt negatively exciting to do that job. Nonetheless, I have finished my first recording and shared it, have fun!

I do not completely sure whether I am going to give my future students such a similar task or not. I personally find podcasting useful and fruitful. If I would give them such a task, they would have a chance to listen themselves and improve their listening and speaking skills greatly. So, the greatest advantage of podcasting is that it is an excellent example of self-development way, and I believe that the most effective way of learning is self-learning and knowledge obtained by self-development techniques. However, there is a disadvantage that cannot be ignored. Just as I have written, podcasting can be stressful, and making my student stressed to improve their skills is not my cup of tea. I know advantages are more notable than disadvantages, so it would be a good idea anyway.