Video-project Experience!

 

I will tell the truth; this task has been the hardest one I was asked to do. I did this task with my dear classmate Burak Haşlak (you can see his blog here.) We did not have so much fun while doing this task. Because of the hardness of the task, I did not enjoy doing it. Unfortunately, I could not use or give the same task to my future students. By the way, you can see our product here.

We have done our task with our own video editing programs. Majorly, editing was part of Burak, and I took the responsibility for the script and written works. The good points about our tools are they had no cost (at least for us) and we had no trouble after finishing the task. The bad point about the tools as it was very hard to figure it out. (Fortunately, we finally learned the necessary part we used).

I think the digital story is not bad; however, I will not ever never give my students such a task as homework or out-class task. It is another type of must-be-done-in-classroom task. Because of the hardness (I mean only those who took courses on how to create such things can easily do these tasks without facing any obstacle.) In my opinion, giving such a task to my students might make them take a dislike.

Nevertheless, seeing the final product made both me and my friend happy and relaxed. Completing such a task may lead me to greater success. Yes, it was hard and took so much afford but in the end, everybody (including the fish) was happy.

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!

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.

Wiki Experience

 

MY FIRST WIKI EXPERIENCE!

    I have been given an assignment as I am expected to create my first wiki page, I created one and you can read it from here.

    As the modern age requires well-developed teachers capable of understanding and using every kind of technology, wikis are also part of it and as a future teacher candidate, I also expected to create my own. The focus of this task is learning what the wikis are and how to make a brief one. The task was not hard for me because I reviewed, I well knew but if I would be tasked a product I had no idea, most probably I would have bad times. Writing a wiki is nice; however, I most probably will not use one. Because wikiing is getting an outdated method, my student will not have to deal with them maybe even they will not encounter any.

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.