sbrcndmr learns E.T

     Hello again! this week's task was to create a flipped grammar teaching video, similar to the previous week's task. My friend Yüksel and I(you can reach his blog by clicking on his name.) created a video and an activity to practice what we taught to our students. I created the activity and Yüksel created the video, when it comes to the script of the video, we wrote it together.      Actually, it was a pretty fun task, I had little to no difficulty while doing it, but trying to fit in a time limit was kind of hard, other than that it was easy and fun.     We used Slidepresenter for video and Wordwall for the activity to create them. (You can visit their sites by clicking on them.) Slidepresenter is the tool to voice your slides, and Wordwall is one of the best sites for a teacher to create after-course materials, it includes lots of different types of activities to create. When I will be a teacher, I will definitely use it in my class. ...

     Hello again! It's my second blog post since my blog's revival. :) This time, my friend Ezgi (you can reach her blog by clicking on her name.) and I created an entertaining video that teaches learners a certain vocabulary by flipping the classroom.       Basically, we first introduced the never-before-seen words to learners, by showing visuals and sounds of them, then we created a dialogue in which the words are spoken to reinforce learning. The 2 people included in the dialogue were chosen children by us deliberately because we thought learner children could found a bond if the people in the video were children and in our opinion, flipping a classroom and creating such material is really helpful for learners.       And, yes it is an efficient way of teaching but it is also onerous, at least for me. Because I have never created such material before and it was kind of hard for me, we didn't know how to use the tools. Nevertheless...

         Greetings from a Sunday morning, it has been a long time since my last post, but with the new course, Material Design in ELT, we decided to keep using our old blogs and I'm very happy about that.   As our first assignment, my pair  Ezgi  and I(you can visit her blog by clicking on her name.) created a language awareness task by using a corpus. Using a corpus is a necessity of data-driven learning. In data-driven learning, students acquire the language by exploring it themselves, and corpus is an enormous database containing lots of words and patterns. And, a language awareness task which we did on  Canva , encourages students to explore the language. You can check our work from below. See you later on our next assignment :)

     Greetings again! But for the last time... We have come to the end of the semester thus it is the last post of mine. I am delighted to be able to attend this class and learn things which will be my helpers in the future, I am so grateful to learn various tools and ways for integrating technology into education. However, as I should be, I am also sad because it came to an end.     Before getting this course, I was not an abstainer for integrating technology into education too. Though I had little to no ideas about how to do it. This course helped me to find "How?". It granted me so many tools such as Wikiis, Canva for so many things like creating a poster or infographic, Pixton, Padlet for taking notes, Vocaroo for making a podcast, Wordart for word clouds, and various unique experiences from the lessons.   From the tasks I counted above, I liked creating a movie poster the most. Because I love reading books and watching movies a lot and this assign...

       Greetings to all of you, while we are coming closer to the end of the semester, we are also coming closer to the end of my blog posts and assignments. This one, digital storytelling, was the second to last assignment. Also, this one was more demanding, it consumed lots of time, but more fun than the others. My friends, İdil , Eda , and I (You can reach their blogs by clicking on their names.) created a story at first, then narrated it. I believe that it is not only a fun process for us, the creators, but also it is fun for the children who will be our students in the future, yes, as everyone can understand from what I said, I am planning to use this digital storytelling technique in my classroom. I believe that success happens if you like the subject, school, and class. And I believe digital storytelling is fun enough to make students love the class.        We used Pixton for creating the story, it is a cool application to create unique cha...

     Hello again! We are coming closer to the end of the semester, in other words, these are my probably last posts. :( I have the bittersweet feeling of that but I am also happy to have a wonderful task again. I created an infographic which is about the online courses during the pandemic in Turkey. I've mentioned how, when, etc., and gave tips for the students to be successful. Since I've been through online courses, it helped me a lot to create an infographic. Besides, I believe that an infographic can help a student because it is informative and eye-catching at the same time. I used "Canva" which is familiar to all of us from the last post of mine. Canva is an all-purpose app, one can create lots of things with it.      Here is the infographic that I made. Until the next post of mine, goodbye! ONLINE HIGHER EDUCATION IN TURKEY - Sabrican Demir

       Hello again! It has been a while since my last post, and I'm happy to be here again! This week's assignment was creating a poster for a movie, which is actually a book but I create one as if it is filmed, including quotes, the cast, producer, director in it and my aim was to make it eye-catching.        I chose this book because I chose the same book for the previous assignment of mine, and wanted to make the same book again as if this one is the sequel assignment of the first one, and the second reason is it is the last book that I read so it is easier for me to remember it in detail. :D       I used the website "Canva" to create my poster, it is a super easy and beneficial website to create a poster, I'd recommend everyone that website without a doubt. :) And surely I'll recommend it to my students as well. :)      And here is the movie poster that I created for the book "Breakthrough" Breakthro...