My Experiences With Educational Technologies

 Today, I will share my flipped classroom (FC) and my experience in preparing material for it.  As a concept, FC is rather new for English Language Teaching and teaching in general, although I found many regular-life-like things and tools to utilize to enhance my flipped classroom material. Maybe it is because me and my generation are so entangled with the digital environments. I thought that this was like a natural teaching method for me. In the future, I think with a more digital world this idea will gain more importance in teaching circles and me. FC has many advantages like providing the field independence for the students, stress-free task creating, and execution for both teachers and students. Also, the interactive digital environment focusing more on the attributes the students have may enhance the general attitude towards the learning subject. Since digital worlds don't have limitations physical classrooms have. However, this digital world comes at the cost of digital ...

It's been a long time since I left my blog page, I didn't think that I would return here, to be honest, it was a surprise, a fine surprise I may say. I missed these kinds of assignments which make us interact with the technology, and today I am going to talk about our vocabulary-focused and corpus-based worksheet material design.  We used Canva as a collaborative tool while designing our worksheet, it was very entertaining and challenging to do at the same time since we had not done anything like this since last year. As a corpus we used COCA . Considering the easy interface, it's simpler and more suitable for our target age group who are prep-school students. We are hoping that our students will be able to get a basic vocab for talking about travel with our worksheet.  After seeing examples from our friends in an online class, we kind of struggled since our first draft was so horrible compared to our teacher's explanations and criticisms of our friends' works. Not...

  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...

Since I was doing video editing for youtube from time to time, I was used to preparing media content for user's entertainment. However, it was the first time that I created a podcast for educational purposes with a dear partner who is my friend Toprak . We wrote the funny story first, divided it into two, then recorded each part individually, and edited the audio file with several software such as Audacity and Vegas Pro 17. Combining these gave us an important advantage in exceeding the limits of our creativity. Also, it was fun to feel free to adjust and use several digital tools for our purposes. Using and discovering digital tools which were enjoyable and efficient for our case would be very advantageous for the formation of future education theories as well, including the fact that students will live much more on their screens and explore infinite digital worlds on these.  We should be able to include daily life in our education according to the ELT education I get. However, in...

  Hi, Today I would like to discuss the Padlet experience I had recently, and my humble thoughts about the overall effect the collaborative writing tools have on the development of 21st-century learning  It can be a rush statement but for me, and my friends, this experience was much easier than wiki writing because of the modern interface and tools it brings for creators. It was also much more suitable for collaborative writing, considering me and my peers don't have to wait for locks and can actually write together unlike what happened in wiki writing.  When it comes to improving learners writing skills, the activities I and my friends did which we mentioned in our blogs, were so helpful. However, there is an important fact about our profession and age while we are doing these activities. It can be very helpful for self-aware and capable learner groups such as college students and adult learners. Although, young students who would have shorter attention spans in the futu...

Probably all of us have been in situations that made us visit the wiki pages to get information for our daily needs or responsibilities like completing homework. Even with that huge use of wikis, surely none of us had thoughts about how they have been written. They were always there for us to read. Today, I and my friend Toprak experienced the other side, the enormous community working for us and serving our needs. Planning, writing, and reviewing were the processes we followed for writing our wiki page. It was enjoyable to follow this course with my friend, of course, especially deciding on the addition of media assets for our wiki was a fun experience. Although it was enjoyable, the idea of someone going to read our page to get information to decide whether to watch the film or not was serious, I think. Watching one special film can change lives after all. The experience we had gave us the hint about what wiki writers engage for transferring information in the digital environment. A...

Before the examination of the memes and the humor culture with the learning environment formed around them, we should look into what made all of that possible: technology, the Internet, and sharing information part of it, specifically.  After we shared our experiences and learned from each other by using web 1.0, web 2.0 and its creativity tools led to an era of countless innovative ideas about all things surrounding us. One of them, of course, was about education. As a young teacher candidate, I was born into this digital world of exploding new innovations. My students will experience the same fate as well. However, the complexity and impact it has on them definitely will be more than me and my generation had. Maybe they will be familiar with artificial intelligence-created information, or they will communicate with machines in their daily lives. We cannot predict tomorrow that easily, but we have to prepare for our profession's adjustment to the future. Maybe piece by piece, but ...

Welcome to my blog about the examination of the internet meme culture and its impacts on English learners. As a young teacher candidate for ELT, I am going to make this journey as fun as possible. There is an example of what is about to come :