A Journey To ELT

Hello everyone!   This week, I have experienced  creating a page on wiki and I want to share with you. First, I’d like to briefly mention about what the wiki is. It is a kind of website that allows users to freely upload, edit and delete content present on a webpage collaboratively.  For our assingment, we were supposed to choose a film that won at least one academy award. We were also supposed to review it according to instruction and create a page on wiki. My pair, Azra and I worked in this project collaboratively and we decided to watch Black Swan which I always wonder. After watching the movie, we created a page on wiki that includes some basic informations, reviews and a pilot about the movie. We made recommendations and commented on the film, its musics, costumes, actresses. Also, we wanted to enrich our page with pictures, a gif and a trailer.  Working collaboratively made the process easier. We created and edited the page simultaneously. But someti...

  Hi again, I want to share my first podcasting experience with you. First of all, let me say that it was absolutely a challenging task for me. It was given by our instructer for our material class. As it is a pair work, Oğulcan and I worked  together.To the given task, all we need to do is choose to one of the three options and make a podcast about it.   We chose to create a sound rich story and narrate it. It looked like fun and easy. Actually it was. First, we wrote the story using some key words and made a plan. Later, we started to record our voices and this was the challenging part. We made little mistakes and had to start over and over again. Also, we had a lot of difficulty when we were adjusting the sound effects.     Despite some difficult parts and our bad lucks, I really enjoy this process of podcasting. It was a good experience for me and I got a chance to use my voice differently. And of course Oğulcan’s partnership made ...

Technology,Internet,Innovation,Media,DigitalPlatforms.     These are the terms that come to my mind first when i think about 21st century. Today, we live in a world dominated by technology.Our interactions with the world and with one another are mediated by computers,tablets, and smart phones. Of course, this developing technology have affected the education and learning environment. Now classrooms are full of many technological devices. These devices are helper of teachers for many aspects. Such as they can add a lesson-related videos and this provide a better understanding of the subject and it is also less time consuming.     To catch up these developments, 21st Century learning students are expected to more creative, collaborative and effective. Also, they must be critical thinkers and have some communication skills.    Besides, education in the 21st century offers a huge variety of learning options.Students are more active and they have acc...

Hello everyone!     I always thought about how it would be if I had a blog, and there it is. Even though I am worried as it is my first blog, I get excited when I think about things I will do on this blog. Generally, I will be blogging about my experiences in ELT and  Technology & Material Design course. I will also share my opinions, some informations and latest news with you and  I will provide some advices and helpful tips, to the best of my knowledge.   I really hope you enjoy it. As i just said I’m new to blogging so any criticism or advice will be much appreciated. You can contact me and feel free to comment or ask me questions.  I’d love to hear them. Many thanks, Hande Nuray