Technology on Language Teaching

Hi everyone, I hope you are all fine and safe. Today, we will talk about Flipped Grammar Teaching Video Task. As you can remember, we have done another flipped teaching video which is about vocabulary teaching to elementary students. Grammar video is to prep students to high school.  Because of this reason, we don't want to use illustrations here. Instead, we made us recorded real. We thought it would be better them to focus. As you can see, we worked here with groups, again. We were together İlayda, again (you can see her blog link below).  I think, creating a grammar video to prep students was easier than elementary ones. Because we are much more familiar them, our ages are closer and we can realize what they need, what they want to and most important, how can they do that. So, the way we deal with the task has shaped by thinking the issues.  The prep students are more tend to use flipped classrooms than the younger ones. They can lead themselves, they can know where to...

  Hi everyone, I hope you are fine and healthy. We are here with our new task, Flipped Vocabulary Teaching Video. In class, we talked about ‘flipped videos’.   It is student-based learning. You know, traditionally the classes are given by teachers. Students are in the second plan. But in this, as we teachers, we only direct them with proper instructions and the rest of the work depends our student. It is an advantegous thing because it gives chance to our studens learn by themselves out of class. They can access the video and activities without teacher. But, it could be dangerous because if s/he learned something wrong, it would be harder to make her/him learn it in a true way. But, we can deal with useful instructions and activities. Me and my pair, İlayda, we used ‘Animaker’ to create one. It was very tiring, actually. It should be well-designed and prepared and so, we worked hard on it. It was the most challenging part of group work is meeting. Internet disconnection...

  Hi everyone, I hope you are fine and healthy. Today, we are here with our first task ‘Language Awareness Task’. We have done it with my pair, İlayda. What we have dealt with it ? We gave instructions to our students and we made them discover the rule by themselves as proper to 21 st century learning principles. We made them use corpus, and we wanted them to be discoverer of the specific rule, content etc. We used the communication platform, Zoom and every detail of the task has been made by us. We had a lot of fun because while we were directing our students, we directed us to make everything clear and easy for them. Until the next task, it was all for me. See you soon. Loves, Şayan.   ( My pair's blog https://magisterposterum.wordpress.com/blog/ )              https://create.piktochart.com/output/53519003-sayan-ilayda

  Hi everyone, As you know, I am Şayan from Marmara ELT. We were together last term to share what we do in our Educational Technologies class. We were doing tasks weekly, we were creating things to adapt 21st century learning. It was a good experience. We have had a break, we rested and we are are ready to create new content for this term. At break, I tried to make my life much more funny, you know this pandemic issue, unfortunately. And for me, it was a pretty short break. I couldn’t find enough time to wander, read or research etc. But yet, I read a lot. I extended my library and I spent my money for useful things. I got 2 flowers, one of them is daisy and the other one is carnation. I have a golden fish whose name is Aşk Adam, we spent time together. I am the mother of two flowers and a golden fish. It was a short view of my break. Now, in this term, what we will do with our blogs ? First of all, we were students last term.   At this term, we will be teachers for the ...

  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.