Edx Course

        Hey again my dear friends! This time I want to share my online course with you. Among all the activities I've done, I find this one the most useful. Actually I didn't do any activities here, I just attend some courses to gain useful information. There are plenty of courses in the website of Edx and it is completely free to join any course you want. Indeed I have to warn you, if you want a certificate from the course, you have to pay for it. But if you are just interested in the knowledge you will gain like me, I don't think certificate is important for you anyway. Let's get back to my course. I took a course which is called "Public Speaking". In this course, basically, I learnt how to prepare yourself a presentation mentally, then how to prepare the presentation correctly and lastly how to present the presentation readily. Since I didn't take a certificate from the course, I want to share the screenshots of my course progress with you. I suggest you to have a look at it, there are below! (:

Gamification in Education

   Hey again friends! Today I want to talk a little bit about gamification and it's effects in education. In today's technological world, almost every people use technology in different ways. Playing games is one of them. It is very common especially among the young generations. They play games most of their free times and this means that playing games can teach them lots of things if it is used properly. Education should be upon the students's interests so in that sense, games should be used in education to attract their attentions. They know almost every features of the games. Hence it won't be difficult for them to adapt in the learning environment. Besides, they enjoy a lot when playing games. If learning will be done through the games, it will also be enjoyful for them which is a good thing in education general. Teaching/learning environments don't need to be boring, indeed they need to be catchy. In today's world, it is possible with the use of games. Games are also more realistic than the written texts because you don't have to just read and try to comprehend knowledge from there. In games, you actually live it. You create your own path and in the games like Second Life you need to apply your all knowledge to get through. In that sense, you need to add new knowledge to your old ones. Indeed it is not boring like just reading written texts. Consequently, in our technological world, games can be and should be used as a tool of education.

Second Life

   Hey friends! This time I'm going to share my Second Life experience with you. As can be understood from its name, it is like your second life on this app. You can choose your avatar, go whatever you want or you can even do shopping like in the real life. You can also talk with real people all around the world both in writing and in speaking. When using Second Life, you use English a lot. This means that your English will develop significantly. In this aspect, Second Life is very useful in language learning. Firstly, you should sign it and then download it to your computer. After that, you can use it as a real game. I must confess that it is pretty difficult to get used to it at first. But in time, you begin to figure out things and enjoy it. As I've said before, everything is English here. You can learn so many new vocabularies from there. It really helps your English learning process. So I suggest you to at least have a look at it. Here's a link of Facebook post which is my avatar's photo. If you are curious about it, just click the link below!

                                             https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=131806384637843&set=a.131806411304507&type=3&theater

Mindmeister

     Hey again friends! Today I'm going to share my Mindmeister activity with you. It is a mapping activity. You can add subtopics at any number you wish and remove them according to your wishes again. You can also add videos, pictures or emojis to your topics. At the end of the activity, you can turn your mapping into a presentation. In my own activity, I used emojis because in the other activities I've done, I've never used them. In that case, it is different from the others. I chose Hobbies and Skills as my topic and I gave specific examples to them. I also used emojis to represent them. If you are wondering my activity, just click the link below! (:

                                https://www.mindmeister.com/1261447466?t=YUJkMLgWqc

Nearpod

     Hey friends! This time I'm here with my new presentation which I did in Nearpod. It's very different because you can add lots of things,such as 3D materials, into your presentation which I haven't seen in other applications. There is also lots of picture, giph or video opportunities to add into your presentation. I used animal giphs in my presentation because, as I've said before, I find giphs very interesting. The subject of my presentation is animals. I showed a few animals but I also add a video which includes nearly all the animals. I want you to have look at it, please click the link below! (:
                                       
                                              https://share.nearpod.com/oorLASeCoW

Quizlet

     Hey friends! This time I want to share my first Quizlet activity with you. In quizlet, creating activities is quite easy because you just have write your definiton and choose the languages, it will give you the meaning of the definiton in other language. Also, you can add photos to represent your definitions. The best feature of the Quizlet is that it creates different types of activities for you to play such as matching, listening and writing. In my activity, I used Appearances subject and I gave some of the personal characteristics with the representative photos. If you want to have a look, just click the link below! (:

                                                     https://quizlet.com/_6kpi8t

Canva

     Hey my friends! This time I used Canva to create my new activity. You can create lots of things such as presentations, social media posts or letters like I did. I created a new year letter. In my letter, I used simple past tense sentences because in this activity, I want my students to learn it. I wrote a letter from a girl's mouth to her parents about what she did in the last year of hers. In Canva, you can also change background, add aything you like such as pictures, different types of shapes or youtube videos to your activity. If you want to take a look at my activity, here's the link below! (:

                                      https://www.canva.com/design/DADYz6pZSuA/view

Flipgrid

Hey again my friends! Today, I want to share my Flipgrid activity with you. In Flipgrid, you can share videos of yourself if you want and you can also add notes onto your video. If you want to have a look at mine, just click the link below! (:

                                                    https://flipgrid.com/s/142a1ef67916

Pixton

     Hey friends! This time I am here with my very first Pixton activity. In Pixton, you can create comics in the way you like. You can add several characters to your comics and you can choose several backgrounds because there're lots of them. You can also add different objects to your comics to make it more outstanding. It is not over, you can also change your characters's features, rotate them and give them specific body movements. I really liked Pixton. As for my activity, I tried to teach occupations subject and I used different charaters and backgrounds according to their occupations and environments. I really liked it. If you want to have a look at it, just click the link below! (:

                                                      https://Pixton.com/ic:n0vtk5p9

Kahoot

      Hello again my friends! This time I want to share my first Kahoot activity with you. I always find playing Kahoot in the lessons very enjoyable and I also enjoyed a lot when doing my own activity. In my activity, I want my students to learn antonyms. I gave them a specific word and want them to choose it's antonym among the options. Kahoot is kind of exciting when playing it because it has time limitation but in my opinion, it makes the activity more challenging for the students. Using Kahoot in the lessons is very useful as far as I see in our lessons and in my own activity. I guess I am going to use it in my classrooms in the future. So, there's a link below which you can find my activity. Hope you like it! (:

                 https://create.kahoot.it/share/antonyms/47aea8dc-3664-4006-9c16-8fd07fdc59ba

VR Activity

     Hello again friends! Today I want to share my experience of using virtual reality glasses in our IT&MD lesson. In the last week of our lesson, we are given the glasses by our teacher and we used them to play a game. In the game,there was buildings and a plane which we could control to make it not to hit the buildings. We controlled it with our real motions, it was really fun. After that lesson, using virtual reality in the lessons started to seem useful to me. For instance, sometimes you need real environments to teach your material, such as address description. In such cases, we can use virtual reality to make the classroom environment more real. Besides, this type of activities clearly attracts most of the students' attentions. I will try to use it as much as possible in my teacher career. Also, there's a photo of me from the last lesson below. (:

Storybird

     Hello my friends! This time I am going to share a very enjoyable activity with you. I tried Storybird website to create a poem. However, it is not limited with just to create poems, you can also create different types of comics, short or long stories. You can also find drawings in Storybird to make your activity more outstanding. For instance, I wrote a poem which is about a girl who is obsessed with the nature. My main goal here is to teach some kind of animals or plants which live in the nature. In my opinion, doing it with a poem which includes lots of attractive drawings made my activity more interesting. If you are curious about my activity, just click the lik below! (:

                                           https://storybird.com/poetry/-nature-therapy

Voki 

   

     Hey friends! This time I am here with my very first video of Voki. I really liked this website because it gives us a variety of opportunities when creating our videos. Firstly, we can create a character according to our wishes. There are several characters over there and we can also change some features of the characters. Also we can select the background among several of them. Besides, we can add voices to our characters. It can be our voice or we can choose the voice over there, there are also lots of voice options. In my opinion, it is preferable in the lessons because it really attracts attentions of the students. Here is my first Voki video which I told about collabration in the class. I want you to have a look at it, just click the link below! (:

                                                     http://tinyurl.com/yyo7yw79

Powtoon

      Hey again friends! Today, I'm going to share my Powtoon video with you. This is not my first Powtoon activity but I guess it is better than others this time. I try to explain ''Comparative'' subject with the examples and I use different characters, shapes, special ornaments to make my activity outstanding. I want you to take a look at it. There's a link below, hope you like it. (:

                                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRSSnTRpkKU&t=6s

HP Reveal/ AR

 Hey friends! This time, I'm posting my AR activities which we did in our last lesson of  IT&MD. We used HP Reveal app to create AR activities and I still have this app in my phone. I am still using it because it's very enjoyable to create imaginary things in my real world. I know I am a beginner of it but I still have fun whenever I do this. If you are curious about my works, you can watch the videos below! (:

Padlet        

                  

       Hey friends! This time, I am willing to share my first Padlet activity which I like very much. Because, the themes, the icons and the hashtag part are pretty cool. Besides, you can add photos, videos or gifs if you like. I added gifs to my activity because I find them very attractive in any kind of assignments. In my activity, I tried to teach some kinds of flowers with pretty lovely gifs. If you want to take a look, just click the link below! (:

                             https://tr.padlet.com/staringintothenightsky/h9e7g2euxr2c

Seesaw  

 

    Hey friends! This time I want to share my first Seesaw activity with you. Seesaw is a platform where students and teachers collaborate. You can share pictures, audios, videos, texts or anything you like in Seesaw. In my activity, I gave instructions to my imaginary students and want them to match the photos with the written emotions. If you want to have a look at it, just click the link below! (:

             https://app.seesaw.me/#/activities/library?my_library&promptId=prompt.af1eee36-3385-4161-9844-cc486b7ba66c

Vidcast 

  

     Hey friends! This time I am here for to share my first vidcast with you. In the video, I have briefly talked about 5C's model which have been created to guide language learners. It consists of five factors that can develop langauge learning and all the five factors' names start with the 'c' letter. That's why it's called 5C's. If you want to learn more about it, just click the link below! (:

                               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLvX5jnVk5U

Podcast

    Hello again everyone! This is my first podcast on my blog. At this podcast, I have talked about Community Language Learning which I find useful in some aspects. I haven't specifically detailed CLL, I have just talked about Charles Curran's approaches to develop CLL. If you want to learn more about it, just click the link below! :)

                            https://soundcloud.com/zeynep-gueven-112298592/podcast-of-cll

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