Educational

 Hello there! Today, I will be talking about extraordinary teaching material. The material that I am talking about is augmented and virtual reality technology. Unlike the traditional teaching context in which it is difficult for students to engage with materials, this technology goes beyond the teaching limits! By using AR/VR technology, students can explore and examine new places, materials, objects, and even cities by themselves! It is an amazing feature for both students and teachers when it comes to the efficiency and quality of lessons. Using AR and VR in lessons has many benefits but has some disadvantages. When integrated with teaching materials, this technology makes lessons more engaging for students and allows students to explore places, and objects they have learned in the classroom. But for disadvantages, not all students can have a device that is connected to the internet. So this technology can only be implemented in certain classrooms for now. For our assignment, we ...

      Hello There! Today, I will be talking about an unusual teaching method that we covered in my last class. This uncommon method is the flipped classroom approach! Unlike the traditional classroom model where teachers lecture during class and students complete assignments at home, a flipped classroom offers a teaching context where students only come to class to complete their assignments with their teacher while watching their courses online wherever they want. Students first access interactive online content, videos, and readings provided by their teachers before diving deeper levels of their topics. The flipped classroom has many benefits and positive outcomes. Active engagement is one of the key benefits of flipped classrooms since the whole lesson time is dedicated to activities. Also, a flipped classroom offers a personalized learning environment as students can watch their lessons wherever they can and as much as they want.       So, in our a...

   Hello there! I know it has been a long time since we met on this blog, but here I am with an exciting topic today.     This week, I am here with an unfamiliar but quite impressive teaching material assignment: corpus-based teaching material! The assignment was about creating and designing an activity sheet where we were to use the corpus for effective teaching. The corpus is a collection of written or spoken material stored on a computer and used to find out how language is used .  In my opinion, the corpus is a good way of teaching students as it requires observing, analyzing, reading, and understanding. My two beloved friends and I created an activity sheet in which we have activities like testing students' knowledge, and making them use the corpus to understand the difference between 'much' and 'many'. Corpus was an exciting experience for me and my friends. We used 'Corpus Mate' in our activity, you can click on the image to visit it! So overall, it ...

     Hi there! Today, I have come to you with my last blog post... Throughout the term, we have discussed using technology in classrooms and making use of it. Before the class, I was already aware of the benefits of technology in education so it was an efficient lesson for me. With this lesson, I have learned about new media tools, especially Artificial Technology. Using AI is a blessing for both teachers and learners. Who would think of an assistant that can even evaluate students' writings and score them? The most surprising thing about AI for me was its ability to generate questions according to the video or text given to it. You can even choose question types! In addition to AI, we have seen many more topics about technology in our course. For example infographics, I enjoyed creating an infographic as it was easy to make one with some websites with visuals which I think is very beneficial for students to convey some important messages. As well as we have even done pod...

     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,...