Educational

     Hello there! Today, I will be describing a collaborative writing task and my experiences while doing it with my friends Melike and Alperen . About my task, we were supposed to review a film that we chose together and give feedback to another group. We chose Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as a topic of review, which is one of my favorite films. Although I like working individually, I can say that I enjoyed doing this task with my friends.       First, we separated the review part by part and then chose the part we wanted to work on. Later on, we finished our review and designed the page, also gave feedback to each other to maintain the cohesion of the review. It was fun to review one of my favorite films with my friends. When it comes to my opinions about Google Docs as a collaborative working tool, I can say that it is really efficient and helpful. It is easy to use. One of the best parts of Google Docs is that every change that your fr...

     Digital Storytelling... Funny!      Hi everyone, I hope you are all having good times! Today, I am going to talk about my first digital storytelling project with my friends. I have to say that it was a really enjoyable process for me. I had a great time while doing it. We wanted to make a fictional and funny story, and then my friend Melike decided on the idea of our digital story. I can definitely say that we all agreed on a really brilliant idea. It was about a girl who lost his CD in the river which she really needed to use it next day. So, she talked about his situation to her two friends, Foan and Alphonso, and then they went to that river to find the lost CD. We used a game to create our digital story. We thought that that game would be suitable for our project as it has graphics like cartoons. It was not that hard to use the game and record the scenery. But as for the voice recording part, we all had a little bit of difficulty in recording since...

     Hello there!       For my assignment, I created a podcast which is about improving the world. The purpose of this podcast is that you present your idea and support it with your statements exactly in 60 seconds about how to make the world a better place to live in. My idea was to restrict harmful gas emissions once a month which we really need in my opinion. While creating my podcast, it was a bit difficult to find an idea that you were going to make your podcast built on. At first, I thought about it and then found my idea. It wasn't hard for me to write my script since it was a topic that I really found beneficial and interesting. As for the recording part, I have to say that I had difficulty in arranging time since I had to make it exactly 60 seconds as my content of podcast requires. For me, I would give a similar task to my learners for once. Because I would like to see my student's job and products and also their opinions. By doing this task,...

     My First Infographic        Hi everyone! Our teacher assigned us a task about infographics. We did infographics about certain topics which are plagiarism, copyright and fair use, safety and privacy, netiquette, and cyberbullying. I did an infographic about cyberbullying which is one of the most important problems of today's young generation, in my opinion. While designing my infographic, I used Canva since it does not require too much effort to use it and Canva is pretty practical. I struggled a bit to imagine a theme that reflects the topic of cyberbullying but solved it fast enough. Infographics are actually good ways to convey messages about related topics because they are not normal and simple texts. In infographics, there are lots of visual aids that attract readers' interest so that readers can read them without being bored. In that way, these infographics are suitable for classrooms, especially in English classes. Because students can have ...

Technology-supported Learning in the 21st Century?        For years, a variety of systems and techniques have been used for the purpose of teaching. But none of them could be as effective and beneficial as technology use in classrooms. In this century, learning something new is like going to the supermarket and buying something. Because, if you have a device that can connect to the internet, then you can easily access lots of websites, e-books, and apps that you can benefit from. Even there are free course videos available on the internet. In this environment, if you struggle for it, it won't be difficult for you to learn a new language to a certain level. So, why don't we bring these advantages of technology into language classrooms? The effective use of technology in classrooms has many positive effects on students. Teachers can support their students with online materials, videos, and games that can make students join classroom activities. In addition, technology ...

Hello There!      Welcome to my blog! My name is Umutcan. I am a second-grade student at Marmara University.  In this blog I've just created, I will be sharing the tasks given by my teacher in my Instructional Technologies and Materials course. I will also be here to post  Educational  news and innovations in my aspect. I hope that this blog will give you new points of view and will be helpful for you to learn new information and gain new ideas.