We're almost done.

Hello everyone.. It's my last post on this blog for my Instructional Technologies course and I'm a bit sad about it. We consumed lots of energy and we tried to do our bests. And here we are: at the end. 

But I'll admit something; at the beginning of the term, I thought blogging is not my thing but now I'm used to sharing posts on this blog and the idea of continuation of blogging is not far from me. This course teached me a lot. It is indeed the most beneficial course of all we had this semester. Because the moment we had our steps out of the class, we were sure that we've learned something to be better teachers (I mean it because the other lessons does not feel like that.). So, I would like to thank my teacher truly. 

Now I have got a lot of materails to be used on my future classroom and I know how to use them. Also I've learned how to mix technology with my lesson plan. Like I said before, the effects of the tech is not avoidable but this course teached me how to take advantage of it with appropriate websites and blogs. I'm sure that I would not be able to use the technology effectively and also actively if I have not take this course. 

All the process was fun and sociable. I have some enjoyable moments doing tasks with my friend that I'll remember. Sometimes it did not go well and sometimes we (I think) did good job.

We were lucky o have this course. I hope it won't be taken out from the curriculum and other students will benefit from it. 

I feel like I'm a different teacher that I used to be. Thank you all...

RSS Feed

Hello again! I've shared two posts in two days repeatedly, I know.. Hope you are not totally bored with me.

As you can see from the title, today I'm going to talk about the RSS feeder and the blogs I follow. Firstly, What is RSS? Wikipedia has a definition of it:

"RSS (originally RDF Site Summary; later, two competing approaches emerged, which used the backronyms Rich Site Summary and Really Simple Syndication respectively) is a type of web feed which allows users and applications to access updates to online content in a standardized, computer-readable format."

There are lots of services that you can benefit from such as Feedly, Panda, Reeder 3, Feeder, Flowreader and etc. So, which service am I following right now? It's Flowreader!

When you sign up to this kind of websites, they offer you some contents to follow from cinema to sports.. You can choose what you desire and thus it will be easier to keep up with the news you are interested in. Besides, you can also follow spesific websites/blogs like I do. Here some ELT blogs I follow:

But among them, Lizzie Pinard is my favorite one. 

Lizzie Pinard is a well trained English language teacher and she has a love affair with the world of education. Her blog contains:

• information about her materials development
• research project and presentations as well as reflective writing
• a range of classroom activities
• wealth of links related to the Cambridge Delta and the Leeds Met M.A. ELT. 

I think you should follow her blog too, because all the different topics she shares makes her blog a teaching and learning haven. It helps set new benchmarks for excellence and passion for teachers and students alike. 

Call it a day! See you later!

Web 2.0 Tools

HELLO!!! This time our topic is "Creating an infographic" which is about web 2.0 tools. If you are asking "What is an infographic?" then here is your answer:

"Infographics, the word information graphics, use graphic visual representations to show information, data or knowledge."¹

If you click here, you can see my infographic which represents my five favorite web 2.0 tools. It is the first time that I've done this. It was tiring but also enjoyable.

By the way, if you are also asking "What are the web 2.0 tools?" here is your answer, :) again:

"Web 2.0, a term we use almost everyday, is an ambiguous concept reffering to a large and shifting set of technological, as well as to an approach of using technology in socially and technologically integrated way." ²

Hope you learned something thanks to this post. See you!

References:

¹ Ru, G., & Ming, Y. C. (2014). Infographics applied in design education. Workshop on Advanced Research andTechnology in Industry Applications (WARTIA), Ottawa Convention Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 29-30September 2014.  

² (Drigas, Ioannidou, Kokkalia, &Lytras, 2014; Kay, Knaack, & Petrarca, 2009; Light & Polin, 2010;Silius, Kailanto, & Tervakari, 2011)

Poster Presentation

Hello again! This time I'm here with a magazine cover. Creating a poster was this week's task and it was the most enjoyable one that I've been doing so far. Maybe it is because of the person on the cover: David Bowie. I love everything about them. (it is actually singular "they".) And also I love doing anything about them.

The themes was not limited; there were diverse of them (from fashion to sports) and music was my choice. Firstly, I searched a proper photo of David Bowie as a cover; it should have been hd standart. Then, I added fashion and a TV series on my cover. I did not take too long. Trying to find best fonts, schemes and layout was a real fun becuse I like to edit photos and etc.

I think it is applicable as a task unless we limit the themes. If we give stuents a poster presantation task and we do not limit, they will choose a theme that they enjoy it most. For that reason, the task will turned out to be an enjoyable activiy, not a task that they have to do with an obligation.

Here is mine! With a David Bowie cover, of course :')

Creating A Digital Story: Mummyshtein and The Bear

Hi everyone! The spring is here and all the things I've done seems so beautiful to me.. And today I'm back with a digital story named Mummysthein and The Bear. I worked on this project with my beautiful friend Dila. (Don't forget to visit her blog!)

Firstly, I thought it would be an easy task but it turned out to be the hard one. The process of this project started with out brainstorming; then, we decided on the topic. Actually the moment we created our animation and our story was simultaneous. We had fun.. The app we used for our project was Animaker. We have lots of technical difficulties. For example we could not add any voice to the digital story that we created. So, we used Movie Maker.

I think Animaker is a tough app for creating a animation. There are lots of difficulties yet it is fun to some extent. I'm not sure if I give this task to my students or not in the future but If I want them to challenge, this task will be appropriate.

Hope u enjoy🌌✨