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...

  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...

 Hey everybody, welcome to my blog!   For my educational technologies class, we were assigned to write a movie review. I was a little nervous about the assignment because I had never written a review before but the task went better than I had imagined. I chose my friend, Defne to be my partner for the task. We thought it would be better if we chose a movie that we were familiar with, so we decided to write a review on ‘’Encanto’’. He was the one to recommend this movie in the first place! We watched the movie together again (and embarrassingly cried for the second time) and talked about the little details we noticed about the movie and what we could write for our review. Later we wrote the review on a shared google document and finally, we shared our assignment on the wiki page. I have had a lot of fun working with my partner. As a person who hates writing assignments, I realized that collaborative writing could be fun.  I think using wikis as a collaborative tool is a go...

  Hey everybody, welcome to my blog! I will be posting here for my educational technologies class. I hope you like my posts. Thank you for reading, take care 💖