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Hi everyone! Today, I will be talking about something interesting, which is called WebQuest. Firstly, I will define it,  "A WebQuest," according to Bernie Dodge, the originator of the WebQuest concept, "is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on  using  information rather than on looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation."  It enables us to give all the necessary information and resources step by step, without getting too complex for students to understand them. - My friend Merve Mızrak  and I came up with an example WebQuest, you can check it out by clicking here . We made our WebQuest technology-enhanced by requesting students to use online tools to create a short podcast and a poster. We requested them to introduce us a new culture (with its customs and traditions, ...

  Hi everyone! Today's topic is pretty interesting, which is Augmented Reality, also known as AR. It is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information. We created a project with my friend Merve Mızrak to incorporate it into education. Inıtially, we planned to use the app ARize, but it did not work. So, we decided to use some 360 ° YouTube videos along with some QR codes. We created worksheets in which we present to students some of the most iconic landmarks of Moscow, Russia, and a famous dish. We included those QR codes with video links. After they watch the videos and explore the landmarks, they are supposed to answer the given questions. You can find our handouts below: It was fun to create this activity, but we faced some problems, especially with ARize, as I stated before. I hope that you like our activity, see you in another post!

Hey everyone! Last week, I mentioned about the concept of flipped classroom and shared my vocabulary video.  This week, we prepared a grammar video, again with my friend Merve Mızrak . Our grammar subject was ''Adverbs of Frequency''. At the beginning, we talked about their functions and then showed our students some common adverbs of frequency (Form focus). Later on, we talked about some grammatical structures in which those adverbs could be used. Finally, we finished our video with a short exercise.  I believe that learning with flipped classroom videos is way more beneficial than traditional grammar teaching strategies.  When it comes to work share, Merve vocalized most of the video and created the handout worksheet through Canva while I also vocalized a part of the video and did the editing through Sony Vegas Pro. We hope that you will enjoy the video. You can watch it by clicking here . And you can see our handout worksheet here:

Hey everyone! Today, I want to show you my flipped classroom video that I created with my friend Merve Mızrak.   What is Flipped Classroom after all?  A flipped classroom is a type of blended learning  where students are introduced to content at home and practice working through it at school.  What are the advantages and disadvantages of it?  Firstly, let's talk about some of its advantages. A flipped classroom promotes student-centered environment, and it is easily accessible from everywhere. Flipped classroom videos are usually short, so it enables students of digital era, whose attention spans are pretty short to learn. Speaking of its disadvantages, it adds extra workload on teachers, and these videos have to rely on trust, which means that students should be watching them but we cannot always make sure that they do. In our video, we aimed to teach some occupations to our students. We paid attention to repetition both in teaching and revision parts. We used...

Hello everyone! I am back for my Material Design course. Today, I will be talking about corpus and language awareness tasks. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a corpus is: ''a collection of written or spoken material stored on a computer and used to find out how language is used''. Corpora (plural of corpus) are a great source for teachers, and you can make your students learn by themselves thanks to them. By doing this, we use data driven learning -one of the best way of teaching a language- which is based on self discovery of students.  Now, I want to show our material that I designed with my friend Merve Mızrak, if you would like to read her posts, here is the link to her blog:   https://mizrakmerve.blogspot.com/ And you can preview our material by clicking here   You can preview the other page of the material when you click on it. In the material, we asked students to use skell as we thought that it is r...

      Well, it has been a long journey, but we have come to an end. Different from the last year, in this term I have studied Educational Technologies course. Was it super interesting for me? I would not probably say yes as a person who spends most of his time with things connected to pc and internet. I was -at least- acquainted with most of the content taught in the course. But for someone who does not use computer at all besides social media may have found it interesting. Still, it was beneficial for me as I learned actually how can I use these websites in the teaching process, how can I integrate it to my classes in a fun way, so that students can both have fun and learn.     As this integration was the main concern of this course, I have to admit that it was super beneficial. Today, it is inevitable not to use technology in education, and we have been taught how to use it well as a future teacher candidate. So, what can be boring about it?   ...