I Will Miss You, Bye Bye

   Hello everybody, I hope you are all healthy and fine. Today I'm writing my final post because our course has come to an end. It was such an experience for me...

  After taking this course and start writing this blog, I realized that writing something is very restful for me. Especially, nowadays, when all of us at our homes, dealing with many problems, trying to be patient, It made me feel peaceful and happy.

  Moreover, I learned many things. I learned how to use Canva which is very useful for everything. I learned how to use wikis, how to make a digital story. I used many tools that must be integrated into English classes. For example, I will definitely use word clouds in my classes. It supports visual learning. Also, I will certainly use infographics because they can grab attention easily. And of course podcats and digital storytelling. They are crucial for improving pronunciation.

  My favorite one was creating a poster for the book we reviewed. I really enjoyed it because I imagine everything on it. I found the cast, whichever actor/actress I want. I even wrote the scenario!! To be honest, my least favorite was digital storytelling because It was very hard for me to unite the sound and the video. I couldn't decide which program I should use then I couldn't use the one I chose :D

  At the end of the day, I'm so happy because, in the following years, I have something about my university life, my twenties! Besides, It is about using technology in my classes! I appreciate my teacher Gökçe, thanks for all the tools, techniques, your good suggestions...

Stay tuned, maybe one day I continue to write here...

Digital Storytelling: An Apple Pie Recipe

     This week's task was creating a digital story! Since it is a little bit long rather than our other tasks. So we did it my dear friend Sena (I miss her). 

    First of all, we started with choosing our topic. We wanted to give a good desert recipe; Apple pie. After that, we shared the tasks. Sena chose to make the video and I chose to write a script and record the audio. It wasn't easy to render the video and the audio and snycronize them
but I overcome it!!!

    Digital storytelling is a very good project for improving student's writing and pronunciatoin activity because before you start the video step, you need to prepare a written script. After doing that, you need to look at the pronunciation of all the words and read it aloud more than two times. As far as I see, It can apply to student with medium or high English level students.

    It was very funny working with a partner! We shared ideas with each other and also we tried to use some different tools.

    

    Stay tuned!

An Infographic: Turkey's Online Education

    Our new task was creating an infographic. As you can predict from its name, it gives information about something. It is an attention grabbing poster. It can be used during presentations, lessons, wherever you want. I did it on Canva as I mentioned before. I use it for every purpose. It is too easy and it is free!

    My infographic was about Turkey's online education history and what should you do to be successful at school. For the education part, I did some research and for the suggestions part, I use my own experiences. I hope you like it.

    Stay tuned!