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My Final Post

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  Hey everyone, welcome to my blog.  I can’t believe this is going to be my final post, time really does fly. I really found this course to be very beneficial and fun. I learned a lot of new information and tools that I am thinking of using in my future classes.  We had a lot of assignments in this course but my favorite one was AR/VR integrated teaching material. It was so fun to design a teaching material with my friends while getting to know how to integrate AR/VR into our materials. My least favorite task was the flipped teaching video. My partner and I struggled with that task a lot. It was hard to understand how we could make our video interactive but once we got feedback from our teacher it was easy.  This course was very beneficial for me as I got familiar with technology-integrated tasks. Overall I am very happy to have taken this course and I look forward to using what I have learned in my future classes. I couldn’t think of a suggestion that could improve ...

AI Integrated Teaching Material

  Hey everyone, welcome to my blog.  For this week we were assigned to create an AI integrated teaching material. I partnered up with my friends Nehir Akgün and Defne Baskan . First we looked through the book that our instructor shared with us and picked an activity. We picked a writing activity from the book and for the pre-task we introduced the topic to our students. After that we explained the task to them. For the target task we asked the students to use an AI tool to get feedback on their paragraph. Finally as the post-task we asked them some questions about their experiences with the AI tools. Here's the material that we have prepared. Thank you for reading, take care💖

AR/VR Integrated Teaching Material

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  Hey everyone, welcome to my blog. For this week we were assigned to create an AR/VR integrated teaching material. I partnered up with my friends Defne Baskan and Nehir Akgün for this project. First we discussed what city we would like to introduce to our students and we picked New York. After picking our city, we talked about what tourist attractions we could use in our material. We decided to choose The Statue of Liberty, The Empire State and The Brooklyn Bridge.  We used Canva as our tool to create this material. We researched some information about these places and found their panoramic views and integrated it into our material. After that we prepared some questions for our students.  Overall this was a very fun assignment and I will definitely use AR/VR integrated teaching materials in the future.  Here’s the material that we have prepared. Thank you for reading, take care💖

Flipped Classroom on Vocabulary Teaching

 Hey everyone, welcome to my blog.  The term "flipped classroom" refers to an educational approach in which conventional teaching techniques are inverted or "flipped". In this method the students get prior knowledge about the topic in their regular classes. After that they engage with instructional content such as video lectures. Classroom time is used for interactive discussions and activities. With this method teachers can focus on students’ individual needs without taking too much of the classroom time. Flipped classrooms also make it possible for students to enhance their self-learning skills. In my opinion, this method is very beneficial for both the students and the teachers.  For this week, we were assigned to create a flipped teaching material for an EFL classroom. Our target audience was 5th grade students. My partner Defne Baskan and I looked at MEB’s coursebook very thoroughly and we picked “Animal Shelter'' vocabulary teaching as our topic. Firs...

Corpus-based Teaching Material

 Hey everyone, welcome to my blog.  For this week, we were assigned to create a corpus-based material. I’ve partnered up with my friend Nursena Cakir for the assignment. Firstly we discussed which tool we can use to create the material and we decided to go with Canva. Using Canva as our tool was easy because we were already familiar with it from last year's classes. After picking our tool we talked about what we should focus on for our material and we decided to focus on grammar. After putting a lot of thought into it we picked the use of Be Going To/Will as our subject. For our target audience we picked high school students and the material that we prepared serves as a practice sheet for them. We picked a colorful and visually engaging template for our material. By using our material the students will be able to differentiate the use of “be going to” and “will”. The students will be able to use “be going to” and “will” correctly in the sentences and they will be able to under...

My Final Post

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  Hey everyone, welcome to my blog.  I can’t believe this is my final post on this blog! Before this class I had never written a blog before and honestly I was pretty uninterested at first, but now that I think about it I had a lot of fun while posting on this blog.   We had a lot of assignments and each assignment was something that I had never done before. I found this class more beneficial than almost all our theoretical classes because each week we created something new. While learning English, almost none of my teachers used technology in our classes and there was no creativity in our classes. I didn’t want to be like my old teachers and I had a few ideas where I could use technology in my classes but the ideas that I had lacked any creativity.  This year I have encountered so many tools that I could use in my future classes that I had never heard of before. My thoughts on technology integration didn’t change very much because I already thought that techno...

Digital Storytelling

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Hey everyone , welcome to my blog. For this week’s class, we were assigned to create a digital story. I partnered up with my friends Defne and Nehir. We were given 3 options and we decided to create a PSA. First we talked about the topics we could raise awareness about. After some discussion we decided to make a video about animal cruelty. We shared what we already know with each other and then watched a few example videos to get an idea. We did some research and put together what we know and what we learned in a shared google document. Then we looked up some animal photos that we could use for our video and made sure that they were copyright free. After that we recorded ourselves and Defne edited our voices and the photos that we chose. I had never created a digital story before so it was a fun and beneficial experience for me.   Digital storytelling allows students to be creative while learning, improves their technological skills, helps them with their collaboration skills,...