Technology on Language Teaching

  Hi everyone, We have ended the term ... We were here with you to share our tasks and how technology can be integrated with language teaching. Beforehand, I couldn’t think technology would so helpful in ELL classes. Actually, I couldn’t imagine it as a tool. This course gave me this idea. It is not about using computers, edit programs etc. It is beyond that, I learned that which is really core to grasp the technology using idea in ELL classes. You know, we did lots of things throughout the course. Among them, my favourite one is absolutely the ‘Digital Story-Telling Task’. It was the most complex one, it was challenging and difficult to record videos, take photos, create a theme or template but it was a group work, which didn’t okay with me in my school life before taking this course. Thanks to this course, I like being in a group and it is really important for me to carry forward in my career as a teacher or just a human. But besides, ‘Wikii’ project is not really good to t...

  Hi everyone, I hope you are safe and healthy. I am here another and last task, digital story telling. First, we were wanted to choose a ‘how to ..’ topic and then we were expected to produce a 2 minutes video, even if we exceeded the time with my peer, İlayda. Yes, it was a group work and we worked collaboratively. We divided the missions up. But in every part we worked together and intercommunicated. We have faced some problems while editing with ‘Camtasia 9’, we had to do it several times but at the end of the day, we finished it successfully with ‘Movavi Video Suite’. We did it together with screen sharing on Zoom. My peer, İlayda sent it to me via ‘wetransfer’. We listened a lot of music for background, we recorded lots of videos etc. In pigeon video, birds had flew towards my head, for example.  But we did it and we love it a lot. I think our topic is interesting and a recent issue for both girls and boys in any relationship. We wanted it to be useful for you,...

  Hi everyone, I hope you are safe and healthy. I am here with my infographics task. We have discussed the online education in higher level in Turkey during pandemic in this task. We are asked to create a infographic. And I used Canva for it. It was easy to create a template by using it. I went on step by step. I used illustrations, I used facts about the issue and I gave some tips to be successful. While working on it, as in every task I have learned new words and so, I think it will be useful for my future students to create one. Besides, the tasks gave me another side on choosing visuals properly and I believe they contributed to my creativity. I would use them in my future classes definitely. That is all for me, for now.  See you soon, take care ! Loves, Şayan.