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Hello! This will be my last post for this semester.😶 In this post, I will evaluate the course and activities. First of all, I want to start by evaluating the course. This course is not actually easy or a course that will relax the student. We are asked to design homework every week and trying to complete only one course's homework every week is tiring. Of course, homework increases our interaction with technology, but it is not logical or easy to have homework every week. That's why I think the course is difficult. However, I am happy that the course introduced me to technologies that I can use in the future. I only think that homework time can be increased or the number of homework can be reduced. If I were to talk about assignments, I didn't have any really hard time doing them, it was just tiring to have to do them every week, as I said. But it was also fun. I think it was a bit more relaxing since I did them with my friends. I think this time I don't have any...

Hello everyone!  In this post, our task was to design an AI-integrated teaching material. We designed a material where students can do a reportage with a celebrity of their choice. We asked them to do this interview using the magic school page. Magic school is a fun app to use so we thought it would be a fun activity. As an activity where students can develop their writing skills, we asked them to prepare reporting questions and then write about the reporting, their interactions with the celebrity, and their experiences using magic school. We used Canva to prepare the material. It was a fun activity to prepare. This is my post since it's an assignment with nothing much to talk about. See you in my last post! You can see our material here . You can see our lesson plan here .

Hello everyone! In today's vlog, I will share the AR/VR integrated teaching material that I made with my friends. Let's first explain what these are. -AR (Augmented Reality): It is an experience created by placing digital elements on the real world. For example, like pointing your phone camera at a room and seeing a virtual furniture there. You see both the real world and virtual objects at the same time. -VR (Virtual Reality): You dive into a completely virtual world. By wearing VR glasses, you do not see the real world and feel in a completely computer-generated environment. For example, like walking around in a game world. I think this technology can help us convey things like culture and popular places in the countries that speak the language we teach to our students. It is a great technology to be able to explore places as if you were there, from your device. In this assignment, we introduced 2 famous places and 1 museum in Paris. We also added a video about the mo...

Hello again! In this post, I will share my lesson video. I'm excited because, as someone who has watched lecture videos on YouTube for years, shooting a video in this format for the first time made me excited. We shot a lecture video in accordance with the "flipped classroom approach". What is it? “A flipped classroom is an instructional strategy where traditional learning environments are reversed. Instead of lectures in class, students watch instructional videos or read materials at home. Class time is then used for interactive activities like discussions, problem-solving, and projects, allowing for deeper engagement and personalized support from the teacher.” This type of approach allows students to learn at home in a relaxed environment. It provides time during class time to go over parts that are not understood or to do more activities related to the topic in class. However, it is a method that should not be considered for a classroom environment and student pr...

Hello everyone! In today's post, I will talk about the homework I prepared with my friends. In this homework, we prepared a lesson plan and a Corpus-based material. We used the ASSURE model in our lesson plan. First, let me explain to you what these terms are. Corpus-based Materials: “Corpus-based materials are teaching or learning resources developed using real language data from a corpus. These materials reflect how language is actually used in real-life contexts, making them more authentic and relevant for learners.” ASSURE model: “The ASSURE model is a framework used to prepare an effective lesson plan. It begins by analyzing the student, determining the objectives of the lesson, selecting appropriate materials, using these materials effectively, ensuring active participation of the students, and finally developing the plan through evaluation." We used the COCA application in our material, allowing students to contribute to their own learning. We used Canva to ...

Hello again my followers! I am Elif as you know, I took a long break from my blog but now it is time to get back to it. How are you? I hope you are well. I am fine, I’m still alive. I started a new university term. This blog was a course material I needed for a class I took last year and you have witnessed all my homework stages. I will continue to do this this year. Our lesson is Current Issues in Teaching. The aim of the course is to teach how using technology can benefit English language teaching and course content. It will teach us the tips we need on topics such as how we can create creative activities and develop teaching styles using AI. I hope it will really be useful for us and that it will not be a lesson that will drown us in homework and bore us instead of improving. We will complete this lesson again according to the contents of the assignments we shared in our blogs. That's why I activated my blog. I'm here this term too. I look forward to sharing interestin...

Hello, this will be my last blog post. Now the semester is over, even the second year is over. It was a nice semester but with a lot of homework. Before taking this course, the lessons I dreamed of were lessons spent using paper, watching videos, and maybe watching TV series/movies. However, this course really taught me that technology can have an important place in English education and that it can be used beneficially when desired. I now think that I can give my students useful homework or use course materials using technology. This course taught me that the use of technology in ELT is important. I realized that it is important not only to use worksheets and videos, but also to actively involve students in the lesson by using technology. It may be useful for students to prepare a template or create a digital story. It can be useful as homework where they will use active English and technology. I support the use of the strange but entertaining AI we interviewed, as well as the u...

Hello, in today's blog our task was to interview a character. When I was first given this assignment, I approached it with some prejudice because it had so many steps. But Magic School AI gave me a very realistic conversation and I was amazed. I chose to do my interview with Fatih Sultan Mehmet. While I was studying at university in Istanbul and walking around its streets, I couldn't help but remember him. I admire him because I think we are really lucky that he added this magnificent city to our Türkiye. That's why I chose to do the interview with him and I must say that I was really pleased with the result. Magic School AI really made me feel like I was in front of that person and talking to them. It responded with a natural flow and really emotional sentences. I really liked this. When I become a teacher, I would really consider having my students do a task like this and use this AI because it was so much fun. I didn't feel like I was talking to an artificial int...

Our homework for today was to interpret a movie and we interpreted Corpse Bride with my friends Diana and Zeynep. Afterwards, we received a review from another group. I also leave my friends' blogs here:  Diana's Blog Zeynep's Blog We used Google Documents to do the movie review. I think Google Documents is really useful for doing a collaborative task. It is very convenient for common use as everyone has the right to edit and interpret it. In addition, since it is accessible from anywhere, even people who do not have the opportunity to meet can work together. I would give my students a task in which they would use documents. Because it is a platform that makes working together easier. So, I might consider giving assignments where they will use documents. I can also give movie review duties. Because watching movies is fun and such a task can also be useful for improving writing skills. It was a fun task for me too. Corpse Bride is a very famous animation and I felt lik...

Hello everyone! In today's post, we fulfilled our duty of preparing a 'digital story' and prepared a  video .  This assignment was Creating a Public Service Announcement video and we discussed the harms of using straws to humans, animals and the environment in our assignment. Choosing a topic for this assignment was not difficult at all because it was easy to find a current topic. I did not experience any difficulties in recording audio. However, I would not prefer to give such an assignment to my students because I do not think that it will gain anything, in fact, I think it is a time-consuming activity. I can also give students different tasks that aim to integrate technology.   That's it, thank you.

Hello! In today's post, I will share a task given as the content of our course. Our mission this time was to make a  podcast  where we would come up with an idea to improve the world and explain it.  I had no problems while recording and also, I didn't have a hard time choosing the topic because I believe it is something that is really needed. But since I think compressing it into 60 seconds is not enough, I would like to explain a little more. When we look at the news, we see that there are many negative events. And, the people who carry out these events are not very healthy. Of course, there are people with congenital mental problems, but there are also many people who are negatively affected by their experiences. I think they are the ones who need to be integrated into society. Especially the poor children of people who do not know how to be parents cannot be expected to be healthy when they grow up. So, those who will be parents must also be mentally strong. In addi...

Hello! In today's post, I prepared the topic 'Ethical and Legal Issues Related to Effective Technology Use' as a  template  and also, a  template  with its subtitle 'Copyright'. I briefly introduced and explained the items to you. Since 'ethical and legal issues' is the subject of our course, I prepared both a template for it and a template for 'copyright', which is the sub-heading I chose because it is a comprehensive, interesting and important subject that needs to be known. I found the templates ready-made on the Canva site, I leave the links of the original templates below. I also got help from a site while preparing a template on 'Copyright', I will leave the link of this site below. Finding the appropriate template, especially an eight-item template, was difficult, but it didn't take much effort. I had no difficulty in preparing the template and adapting it to my own subject, I even had fun. If I were to create it from scratch, ...

Hello! In this post, I will talk about the benefits of the 21st century education style for my readers who are interested in current and modern education approaches. 21st century education is a modern learning approach that has kept up with the developments of the age. In addition to developing many social and individual skills, it has also integrated technology into education. It helps students develop skills such as, -critical thinking -in-group communication -use of digital tools and so on. I believe that the approach of actively using technology in education will provide students with an environment of global discovery. The use of technology that allows access to global environments in learning a foreign language causes the student to be more exposed to the foreign language he/she is learning, which makes learning permanent. In addition, since the 21st century learning style contributes to the development of features such as group communication, it enables the student to de...

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