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Hello reader, This the last post of this blog. Maybe it is not. I am not sure maybe I keep writing blogs about my ELT journey. This year is my last year in my univesity. I took lots of various lessons. However, this will be one of the memorable ones. In this course, I learnt various tools and their functions. Before this course it was a little bit more complicated for me. Hopefully, the course made my perspective on technology use in ELT more structured. I called it structur

Hello reader, This was my last assignment and I was actually very excited at the beginning. It was important for me because it was the final task of the term. First, I opened a teacher account in MagicSchool.ai and started creating my chatbot there. The tool looked very useful, but I also noticed it could be advanced for some students in Türkiye. I teach 8th graders and in our science unit Nikola Tesla comes up quite often. Thus, I chose him as the character for the

Hello reader, Today, we were assigned to write a film review collaboratively. This writing needs to use a specific style. There were some given structures to talk about the film such as how to talk about the directors and the movie scenes. Moreover, there was a example review provided by our lecturer. This was a great example of a writing task which I can adopt in my future classes. This task motivates students to chose a movie and critically think about it with peers

Hello reader! In this task I was assigned to create a digital story. Videos have a great impact on people. Remembering them is very is easy. However, some people found reading something is easier. I believe that the impact on the technological tools we use will affect the educational habits of students. Thus, it is crucial as a future teacher to adapt myself and being capable of creating multimedia. Moreover, without a well-structed knowledge of how to create this kind of ass

captured by : Lisa Yount Hello reader! In this task I was assigned to create a podcast which is important to vary activities in the class. Our assignment was like a student made podcast but podcasting has different options like teacher made. We had three options in this task and we chose creating a chant from a story. I really love Aladdin and the Magic Lamp since my childhood. I suggested my partner Hüseyin to create chant about this. He acted as the genie and I was Aled

Hello reader! In this task I was assigned to create an infographic about cyberbullying. First let’s talk about what is an infographic. It is another way of showing information in a striking way. You can use tables graphics. It is a great way to inform people this era because people do not tend to read long paragraphs since our attention span getting lower. However, these does not mean that it is not academic or serious. Firstly, we should find some academic sources and citati

To begin with, the first thing that comes to my mind when I heard 21st century learning is the remarkable change in the teachers’ position. We learnt a lot of methods from the past which mostly puts the teacher in the center of learning. However, in this century we use mixed methods in planning regarding students needs, skills and various different factors. This led a huge difference in teacher position which can be metaphorically named as a guide. In our education at Marmara

Hello reader! I am really excited to share my ideas about ELT field. I will write about mostly one of my courses at university. This course is called Instructional Technologies and Material Design in English Language. We will focus on ELT in 21st century, web tools and more. I also join some webinars and seminars. I will share my ideas about them. It will be a great journey. I like writing journals and this blog will be my ELT related journal. I hope you will enjoy reading.