Let's Create Our Podcasts!  

       I am with you with a brand new and fun experience. 'Creating a Podcast'. In fact, many of us are familiar with podcasts. When we put on our headphones and want to listen to something, the first option after the music is to listen to audio recordings about a subject that interests us. You can listen to authentic podcasts that you can listen to while going to school or work, in traffic, while doing sports, or preparing meals, as well as those created to teach a language. It will help your listening and comprehension skills. This is where we come in.

    So we set out to understand how we can use these fun tools in language learning and teaching. First, we did research throughout the course to find out which podcasts and podcasts are broadcasted to which target audiences on which sites. This was the most fun part for me. Because I had the opportunity to meet new and interesting ones as well as popular sites and broadcasters After we learned with which tools we would produce our own podcast, we were assigned to use the information we gained.

   We had 4 fun task. My attention was drawn to the task of making a podcast by explaining an idea that would improve the world in 60 seconds. But for this, I needed an interesting idea. I thought for a long time and consulted the people around me. Finally, I came up with my own idea and prepared the transcript. but it was hard to fit it in 60 seconds. Another challenge was finding suitable place  to record the sound. I had to lock myself in the toilet in my dorm room with my computer :)

   Of course, producing was also fun, but discovering new favorite podcasts was more fun for me. I believe my students will enjoy it too. I think that being a tool that does not limit listening tasks in the classroom environment is its most useful feature in terms of education.

  You can find my podcast here .

  See you soon.

  Take care of yourself .🙋

 

What is the Padlet?

   In this text, I want to talk about 'Padlet' one of the web 2.0 tools. Maybe you already know maybe it is the first time you heard it just like me. So, let's look at what the Padlet is, how it is used and how we can benefit from it as educators, with the help of my own experiences.

    Padlet is an interactive sharing site. First, imagine the pinboard in your home. you can pin a to-do list, a shopping list, a warning note, or just your photos with your family. Everybody can see and make some changes on it. Now, would you like to digitalize all of them to be always with you and those around you? Furthermore, it provides an opportunity to pin multimedia and links unlike real board.

   This quite useful and easy platform is working like that: 

First is first, you sign in to padlet.com .An empty wall will welcome you. Then, you can create your post about what you want. To share them with intended users,it needs to write their e-posta addresses. Now your padlet is open to access. That is all. As you can see it is quick and a piece of cake.

    In terms of education, with the help of this tool teachers can provide a media that their students can collabarativly work. The  teacher can create a class wall that they can add ,change, and orginise their works with videos photos links etc at the same time. Also, for group tasks  students can create thir walls by themselves. This improves their creativity,too. 

   With the help  of my own experience I can say  that it is really enjoyable.We utilized it for  four-person group task. We chose 'climate change 'from the topics given by our teacher.Then we  researched and posted them. In one page both mine and my fellows' changes could be seen. thus, I evaluate it
as a useful web 2.0 tool for education. 

    You can access our (Sude FİLİZ, Eray SEZER ,Sara BAL and me )  Padlet page as an example for yourself.  

              See you soon.

           Take care of yourself .🙋

 

A Little Wiki Experience

 

 

A Little Wiki Experience 

 

This new post is about  my new ,amazing wrtiting experience  on a wiki page. It is really kind of new and  diffirent thing for me. Already, being on the keyboard and tapping the letters in order to refer my toughts is  make me over the moon .This also allow me to an author of a page just like a blog but a lot of author which is my friends are there at the same time .They  share their contents ,too. When I see their name on the on the page a wonder what they share and click them , immediatley. When I reads them ı realy enjoy. Additionly  we can make comments  under the sharings. It is realy exciting to see others comment. To read comments make feel like they are thinking like me or  they dont agree with me .

In this wiki page , we had a duty for making a review about a film commonly chosen with a friend .My peer, Sara and I watched the film 'ıntouchables' shooted  and acted by French directors and actors. it was really a good chose. we enjoyed when watching it.

After watching the film, we wrote our thoughts on the page together ,and we shared  proper pictures finding  from the net. You can see our review in the picture and read  it if you wish from here. 

                    Here is also Sara's blog page. You can find her experinces there . 

            

                See you soon.

                Take care of yourself .🙋

 

THE NEXT-GENERATION LEARNING

THE NEXT-GENERATION LEARNING   

The 21st-Century Learning and Technology Integration In Language Classes

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The 21st century has welcomed us with myrıad of innovations in the education field just in like others. Education principle and methods have changed and tried to keep the pace with requirements of the era. The learners' profile also have changed in this regard. They have to acquıre educational, social and  technological new skılls anymore. These obligation caused the appearance of a new term named 'next generation learning. In this paper, I want to talk about the meaning of this term and share my analysis of the importance of  English language learning and integrating technology into language classes.

Actually, next-generation learning means quitting or transforming classical approaches to prepare the new generation for the 21st century. To achieve it,  the based on memorizing learning is tried to stop, the learners are supposed to be creative and collaborative. They should activate their advanced critical thinking skills everywhere in life. As you know, a lack of technology usage skills in learners is unacceptable due to the fact that we are surrounded by cutting-edge technology. Therefore,  it is impossible to keep technology out of classes, as well. In other words, the most significant and the first skills which are  requırements of the new era such as   digital litracy, recognising digital tools, being able to make a profit from them, etc. oblige technology integrated classes.

From the point of view of learning language, the facilitator side of the technology cannot be ignored . Online and comprehensive dictionaries, online courses for every language,  websites equipped with developed audial and visual sources, and so on are good helpers for both self-education and formal education in classes. A learner needs proper technological tools like these to learn new words, grammar rules, phrases ,contexts  totally grab , memorize and employ the language. When the technology-integrated learning is compared with the classical methods, it clearly seems that learners can really aquire the target language with high pleasure. Also, they actualize their knowledge easily. It is because the real life contains technology and the most useful way of learning is with it.

To sum up,  creating generations that are adapted to the 21st century is our responsibility as teachers. Because this is a technology and innovation era. To make them know the most appropriate tool for their needs and to use it accurately is our biggest duty. In a field like  the language learning of course we can also utilize these technological tools, and create new educational environments for learners.

With these sentences, I am ending my paper and waiting for your percious comments.

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Take care of yourself .🙋

 

 

Welcoming Post

Who Am I?

 My life story begins in a rural town of Denizli, in 2003. I am the younger child of an educator  family. As you can see in the picture,ı am the one whose first toys are pen and paper. Therefore, my best friends were always my books; stories,  poems written by me, and my paintings on our house's doors and walls. My best playgrounds were my house and schools too. 

After the first 10 years of my quiet and calm life, moving to the city from the rural changed everything for me. I met the world and people over again. I was literally like a butterfly coming out of its cocoon.  In that years, the most striking thing for my family was my desire to attend an English course as a child who isn't an entrepreneur at all. That was my starting point to mingle with English. My teaching genes which passed down from my parents, and my natural environment also supported my wishes to be a teacher just like them.

Now  ı am 19 years old, a young and dynamic student .I am making real my dream at Marmara university in English LanguageTeaching (ELT) major. I am getting inspired by the experiences of my parents and elder sister who is a school counselor.I add them new informations and skills of 21st century.

I would be honored to see you in this blog, which I opened thinking that it is time to write down my own opinions about the field of particularly education of English.  If you are also curious about  new era improvments in the field of language teaching/learning methods, the new technologies, etc. please feel free to join me and share your comments.

See you  soon .

Take care of yourself 🙋