My Experiences With Educational Technologies

  To be honest, at the start of the year, I thought this class would be like last year's technology class, which we took at the same place. It included a curriculum where our aim was to obtain general knowledge only about technology. However, this much educational use of technology presented in this year's Educational Technology Class was a surprise for me. The nice one, while I look back to it just now. I mean, I lost count of the activities we did. Of course, I should not forget to thank our instructor for organizing these, and not leaving us alone in this process.  When it comes to activities, I liked the ones that led me to use and combine tools for fun and proficiency. Certainly, all of these activities were around creating stories and materials, and all offered several tools but more interfaces became adjustable, which led to creativity, I think, and more fun I got. After considering this, I can say my favorite activity was creating a digital story. In addition, talking ...

 Making a Magazine Cover was one of the last things I expected from this year's Educational Technology Class. Although, it makes sense since teachers give students homework like this all the time. However, they are usually done in the physical environment. Ah, we have memories of that. Telling our parents we forgot to do our "performance homework" the last day before the deadline and watching them make our homework with scissors and glue all over the place while they constantly rebuke us.  Including that, now I think our assignment makes perfect sense. Since new generations are so settled in the digital world, we can use interfaces like Canva  to replace these outdated methods for homework which requires physical engagement. Also, we can observe that students hate more and more from this style of homework as well. When it comes to telling you about my own experience, I think I misunderstood the meaning of making a magazine cover on my first try. It was more like a book co...

With relief, I and my friend Toprak can say creating a digital story was our favorite activity in this year's educational technology class. Especially the use of multiple digital tools to make the preparation process fun, and the story better. The tools we used were; Discord - for communication  Vegas Pro - for video editing Audacity - for audio editing  Pixton - for creating a digital story  Youtube - for sharing our product and finding sound/CGI material Using these tools to combine several materials from a wide spectrum of the internet was a very entertaining experience. However, we had a problem with the resolution, because Pixton asked for payment. Of course, we screenshotted our way out of that which resulted in low-resolution pictures. The video editing program helped with that though,(we took scene pictures one by one and placed them in our editing program). As we can see, using multiple tools in a digital environment always saves the day! Finding sources wa...