Last Post!

Last but not least. This is my last post for this blog. I hope you enjoyed all of my posts because I have enjoyed all of them. It was pretty fun doing them. I didn’t think that we could integrate so much technology into our classes. However, after I took this class, all of my thoughts are changed because I saw that it is quite beneficial for language learners. Technology integration in ELT is a perfect option for teachers as it helps students to create amazing things and do these creative things in a foreign language. In the tasks completed by me, I liked most the podcast. Creating a podcast was perfect for classes because students should both socialize and create things. It is so helpful in terms of teaching oral communication skills. When I look at the task that I have done I mostly see creativity. I didn’t like infographics because I don’t think students can create such an informative thing. Because they should collect too much data, they will be bored. However, I liked this course so much. It gave me a lot in terms of teaching English through technology. So I want to thank my teacher Dr. Gokce Kurt who is a lecturer for this course. Also, I want to thank my readers. Goodbye!

Digital Storytelling!

Hello everyone! This is my last assignment for this semester. We created digital storytelling for this assignment. For this assignment, firstly we thought that we could use our podcast story. Then, we edited the story because it had flaws. After the editing process, we started to create animations. We did these animations in Pixton. It was a good site for creating comics but it has one affordance. When you are done with the animations, you have to pay to download them. Then, we thought we could screenshot these comics and then add our sounds to them. It was difficult to do it but eventually, we handled that. When we are creating comics, we had a lot of fun because we changed our characters’ faces, clothes, and hair. I think it can be done in the class with our students too because it makes students create a story in a foreign language. Also, they need to speak in a foreign language. So, I would probably use it in my classes for speaking activities and creative activities. We did this assignment with my friends İlhan Faruk Cihan and Selin Albay. They also have blogs on themselves. This is the link for Ilhan’s blog. And this is the link for Selin’s blog. Thank you for reading my blog. This was my last assignment. See you soon in my last post!

This is our project.

Creating an infographic!

Hello to my readers! Welcome to my newest post which is about creating an infographic. Creating an infographic is not a challenging process. However, you need to find reliable data about that infographic and the part of collecting data is a little bit time-consuming. I used ”Canva” for the template of an infographic. It was quite easy to find a good template. Also, editing on a template and adding some pictures to it is easy in ”Canva”. Creating an infographic can be useful for language learning students because they should check the sites written in foreign language and collect data from them. And, this activity exposure them to a foreign language. I would probably give my students this task in the future. Thank you for reading my post. Goodbye!

And this is my infographic.

Scandinavian Mythology Film Poster

Hello everyone! Welcome to my newest post which includes creating a film poster task. I created a film poster from the book Scandinavian Mythology written by Neil Gaiman. I used ”Canva” to create such a film poster. Canva is a very easy website because you can find plenty of pictures. Also, text templates are good. You can find the link to Canva here. I choose Scandinavian Mythology because it is easy to create a poster. First I found a picture that demonstrates the setting and the element. Then I added the other pieces of information. It was quite easy to accomplish this task because I love photoshop and adding text onto pictures. I would use the similar task to my students because it helps students to improve their creative skills and imagination skills with using the second language. And this is my film poster. I hope you enjoy my post and poster!