İrem's ELT Journal

  Hey everyone, welcome to my blog. For this week’s class, we were assigned to create a podcast. we were given 4 options and me and my friend Nehir Akgün decided to create a vox-pop. I usually listen to podcasts but I have never created one myself. I was very anxious because I don’t like recording myself and I didn’t know how to create a podcast. First we started by choosing a question. We choose “which fictional character would you spend your day with if you could?” as our question. After that we wrote down what we were going to talk about on a shared google document. Then we asked 10 people our question. They sent it to us and after recording ourselves we combined the recordings through an audio joiner app. We had some problems while adding background music so we used a different app for that part. It was very fun creating a podcast and my partner and I had a lot of fun. I think using podcasts for educational purposes is really beneficial and I would consider using podcasts in m...

  Hey everybody, welcome to my blog. For this week's assignment, we were asked to create a wall on Padlet and work on a problem with our group. I partnered up with my friends Defne Baskan, Nehir Akgün, and Okan Şıvgın. We chose gender inequality for our topic. We chose this topic because it is something that we know and discuss a lot. We individually did our research, then Defne created a wall and we added what we wrote on our wall. We made sure that the topics we discussed were different.  I used reliable sources such as BBC or UNICEF for my research and I made sure the data I used was up to date.  We all used Padlet for the first time. It was easy to use and I think it is a good collaboration tool. It was also nice to see what my friends wrote and by doing this assignment we learned from each  other. In my opinion, assigning students to work on platforms like Padlet is very beneficial in order to be a successful 21st-century learner. You can click this link to see...