İrem's ELT Journal

  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...

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,...

  Hey everybody, welcome to my blog.  For this week's class, we were assigned to create a digital poster. We were given two options: creating a movie poster of a book or creating a magazine cover. I thought a movie poster would be more difficult so I decided to go with a magazine cover. First I checked some covers from popular magazines such as Vogue and Cosmo. Then I decided to do a magazine about tv shows. After some research I decided to use Canva as my tool. Using Canva was pretty easy and most of the things were free.  I decided to make a magazine cover of something that I was passionate about, and because my favorite magazine is Tv Guide I decided to do something similar to it. The thing that challenged me the most about this assignment was finding a name for my magazine. After putting a lot of thought into it, I decided to go with Pop-Culture.  I had a lot of fun while creating my poster. I think assigning students to create a digital poster would help with th...