Technology and Learning Language

Hi everyone, this post will be the final one in terms of Teaching with Technology Course. In this post you can find my reflections about the philosophy statement I wrote at the begining of the semester and reflections about our course what I liked or didn't like. I will also mention about the  development of my technological skills. However, after that course probably I will continue to write on my blog about whatever comes to my mind I hope you follow. 1-) Reflections on the First Philosophy Statement I Wrote In the first statement I mentioned about the integration of technology into education. I wrote about pros and cons according to me.  Actually I have same ideas but there is one thing which has changed. The matter of difficulty. In this lesson I realized that actually it is not a very hard thing to integrate technology to education. We can all use it. I was a bit  biased but I have understood. As a teacher, we and our students can benefit  from...

 Hi everyone, in this post I will inform you about RSS feed, the RSS program I have been using and my favourite blog. It is a standardized system for the distribution of content from an online publisher to Internet users. Individually I am using FlowReader.com and I can say that it is very useful. And now I will let you know about my favourite blog which is ELT Experineces. I like this blog because; The language used is very understandable for me. Another reason is the content produced.  Also this blog is readerfriendly  In this blog, posts are suported with pictures and videos.  How Can A Teacher Utilize from This Blog? In this blog there are some posts especially I found very useful for teachers. or example there is a post about the ways of teaching vocabulary, another one is five ways for teachers to talk less and students to talk more or there is a post about using songs in class which explains how can we integrate a...

Hi everyone, in this post I will write about infographic and my infographic work.Firstly I want to define an infographic. What is an infographic?  We can define it as a visual representation of information or data, e.g. as a chart or diagram.And now I want to talk about my infographic work. For this task I worked individually and I utilized from Piktochart.This site was very useful to create an infographic.Because there were lots of design options and I could arrange the text in a way that I prefered. For this task I found 4 Web 2.00 tools and introduced them by giving their affordances, constraints and reasons to use them. They were Edmodo, Animoto, Engrade and Grammarly. I had difficulty in writing constraints because for their main purposes they were really ideal. And I will embed my infographic work to my post I  hope you like it.

Hi everyone, this post will be about my movie ,İstanbul Hatırası, poster. And now  I will give some information about process. Firstly I found an online poster maker site. There are lots of them on the internet. I decided for My Poster Wall. This site is very useful to create a poster. You can upload images, arrange your background or texts and etc. For me it was an entertaining task and I would give such a task for my future students because I believe that such tasks develop our creativity which is an important skill for both students and teachers.

Hi everyone, in this post I will share my experience about digital storytelling.For this task I worked with Kadir Enis Kahraman . It was a pair work. Now I will explain how we made our project. To start the task we firstly wrote our text. As a second step we drew pictures related to our story. Third step was narration of the story. And lastly we found a digital storytelling tool and made our story. We had difficulty in finding a tool but it was a funny task anyway,  especially while making out a story. And lastly  I am planning to use such kind of tasks in  my coming teacher years. Because such kind of tasks develop our creativity and collaboration skills. If you want you can take a look to our project. 

Hi everyone, in this post I will write about my website evaluation which is about Onestop English  http://www.onestopenglish.com/   . In that website English teachers and learners can make their teaching and learning process easier with the help of exercises, tests, tasks, articles and more. 1- Who Authored the Website? Is there any Information about their Qualifications or Credentials?   In this website there are lots of authors and every month one of them is picked as author of month.   Aylin Graves: She started to teach English as a part time then ended up it as a full time. She studied American Literature at university. Kerry Maxvell: She  got her  first degree and later an MA in Linguistics from Manchester University, in 1993 Cambridge Universtiy Press  as a lexicgrapher. Lizzie Pinard: She   has been teaching for 6 years, she is currently working at the University of Sheffield as an EAP tutor. ...

Hi everyone, this week in my post I am writing about global warming which is my padlet task. In this post you will find explanations of my task and project process, my personal opinions about the task and finally how this project contibuted to my 21st century learning skills. Firsly I want to give some information about my project. We did this project as a group. We were 6 person and all group members contributed to this project at some point. We chose global warming as our topic. Firstly, we introduced what is global warming? Then we added some videos which explain causes and effects of global warming. We also added some photos, gifs and articles. That's how we explained and discussed global warming. When I come to my personal feelings about this project and padlet, I want to say that global warming is a universal problem and we should be aware of its dangereous results, we must take actions against it. Because  its effect will be tremendous ...

Hi everyone, in this post I will mention about a book, Frankenstein, which I read before. In this review I will give some basic information about the book such as its  author, genre and page of number. Another thing that you can find in this post is general overview of Frankenstein. In the post I mentioned my favourite quote and its importance. I hope you enjoy it... http://ourbookreviews.pbworks.com/w/page/132713034/Frankenstein

Hi everyone, in this post I will mention about my podcasting process and my feelings about it. The first thing we did was forming a story then recording our voices on a suitable platform. Then we found a platform that we can add more sound effects to our recording. About podcasting; I think it’s something useful in terms of students’ recognition of their voices and pronunciation. Also by podcasting they work together. As a task wasn’t a difficult one but finding the suitable platform was a bit challenging. https://m.soundcloud.com/k-eniskahraman/podcast-1 Kadir Enls Kahraman  and I worked together while creating this podcast.

Hi everyone, in this post I will write a statement which includes my ideas and feelings about teaching with the help of technology and share with you.I hope you enjoy with this statement and utilise from it.  In 21st century technology usage is so common that there is almost  no area that does not use technology. And of  course for educational purposes it is used as well. And I think it must be integrated into education, because we live in technology age even children are masters about technology  and we even do our daily tasks with technology. For educational purposes using technology has  advantages; one of them is  students can develop their 4c skills with technology for example;  they can use some apps like Edmodo and they can communicate with both each other and the teacher, they can do their projects collaboratively and because of technology they do not have to gather or by using some apps also they  can en...

What is a CALL? It is a project that aims language learning with the help of, basically computer, technology. This project was started to be worked in 1930s and early  1940s. Since the beginning, its effect on learning and development of project itself has grown gradually and even during early 1990s computers were regarded as stimulus. Since mid 1990s and after that period integrative CALL understanding aroused. To sum up with the CALL understanding and projects learning a new language is easier than before thanks to mainly computers, generally technology.

What makes 21st century learning interesting and different from the other centuries learning systems? In the 21st century new and more developed understanding of learning came to existence. 21st century learning mainly focus on 4c skills which are communication, collobaration, critical thinking and creativity.But of course developing these skills are not something easy.To develop these skills lots of thing should be changed in classes such as teacher's role, student's role, class activities, understanding of teaching and at all. In the 21st century learning, classes should be student based. Students should take role for lesson flows and teachers should not have all the controls. Instead of that they should be an organizer and instructor. Another point class activities should not focus only isolted skiils which are listening, speaking, writing and reading. Activities should aim to devolop presentational skills and interpersonal skills because these skil...

Hi everybody, you are all more than welcome to my first blog.. I am Ahmet Can and I am a  student at the ELT department of Marmara University. It is the first time that I am opening a blog because of that I am very excited. Now, I want to inform you about the aim of my blog. My blog and my posts basically will give information  about technology and its usage in the area of teaching a foreign language.