Goodbye My Readers, Goodbye My Friends...

    Hello my dear readers! This will be the hardest and most heart breaking post of mine. As you can understand from the title it is a goodbye post. If you go back and see my very first posts you can see a teaching with technology post. I said that technology must be integrated into the lessons and at the end of my journey I still think like that. I didn't change my opinions on the contrary they got stronger. Because the more I used technology the more I liked it and found it beneficial. 

    When I look at myself I can see a better version of me. This means that I improved myself in the terms of using technology efficiently. In one of my older posts, I said that I don't like to deal with technology much. I said I was seeing myself as an old-fashioned teacher and I continued saying that I should be a futuristic teacher. Now I think that I took a big step towards that goal.

    I always wanted to open a blog but I never had the chance to do that. Thanks to our Instructional Technology and Material Design lesson I finally did that. In the lesson there were great assignments such as opening a wiki or turning my favourite book into a movie. However there were difficult assignments too. Such as recording your own voice and making a video about the friendship. But still I had fun during those assignments.

    In order to make this lesson much more better and easy I reccomend to our instructor to give more individual works and less pair works. I really love my partner but it is difficult for both of us to get together. And I reccomend my instructor to give some example applications for the work since it can be very difficult to find the suitable one. 

    I am really greatful to all of you. But don't be afraid because I'll be back... 

Really Simple Syndication

    Hello my dear readers! In this post we are going to talk about RSS. I can hear your questions! RSS means Really Simple Syndication. It helps us to gain more time. We are following lots of blogs and sometimes it gets really hard to cope with all of them. We have to check them every day to be sure that we didn't skip anything. So with the help of RSS we are more relaxed because when one of our favourite blogs, such as World Of Mine, posted something new it lets us know.
    It is very simple application. First you are joining it then you are making your site look personal with the steps below.

First you should choose how to be informed about a new post.

Then you can personalize it.

When you finish personalizing it your home page will look like this.


   

    This is how you start using it. Now I want to introduce one of my favourite sites One Stop English. This site is a very useful site for English teachers. It has great ideas about how to teach a certain topic. You can use their applications. It has several sections, It helps you  with both adult and children learners. One of the pages of One Stop English is below.

This is how it looks on your feeder.









This  is the original look of the page of the previous screenshot.




I hope you enjoyed this post. If you have questions about RSS don't hesitate asking me!!

Fun Way to Improve Your English!

    Hello my dear readers! I am here again. As we all know we are in the technology era. Even when I'm writing this I am using technology. Even when I want to reach you I use technology. We can have a long talk if it is a good or bad thing to be this attached to the technology but it is not our topic today.

    Today we are going to talk about web 2.0 tools. For my lesson I created an infographic that introduces my favourite tools. I shared my favourites with you by giving brief informations about them. While creating the infographic I used CANVA.

    You can see my favourite web 2.0 tools and get information about them below. I hope it would be helpfull to you guys!! 

The Best Spin-off Ever!!

    Hello my dear readers! Do you remember the earlier post of mine which I wrote about one of my favourite books? The poster that you'll see below is belong to that book. Why do I have a poster about a book? Get ready because I'll make a movie from it. I mean maybe not now but maybe tomorrow. Who knows?
    Well the topic of the day is making a movie poster of your beloved book. While doing it, I used CANVA application. It is a very useful and easy application. Therefore if you are intersted in such things I totally recommend it to you.
    While doing this assignment I really had fun. But I don't think that it would help our future student very efficiently. I mean yes it is fun but it only helps students imagination and creativity. I think that it wouldn't help the vocabulary, grammer and pronunciation parts. Would I give such assignments to my students yes maybe just to make them relaxed and let them have fun.
    In this assignment I worked with my beloved partner Necla Çalışkan. I think you know her because we are the partners all the time. So why don't you check her page by clicking HERE!
   
    And this poster is our creation with Necla Çalışkan.

FRIENDSHIP GOALS!

    Hello my dear readers! In this post I am going to talk about digital storytelling. In this project I studied with one of my best friends Necla. In this project we were given 3 options to study in pairs and obviously me and my partner worked on what it means to be good friends.
    In this project there were both easy and challenging parts. Easy part was to talk about our friendship with Necla. And the challenging part was to find an application which lets you both put an image and sound on the file. We spent at least two days to find a suitable application but we found the application that we used by chance. And that application was "movavi video suit 18". The application was very easy to use. It was giving the instructions very openly and clearly. The only problem with the application is that you have to buy it first. But we used a trial version of it. And because we used a trial version, it put some watermarks on the photographs. I hope you don't mind it.
    In the future I would love to give such project to my students. Because it is easy and efficient. Through this project they can hear their pronunciation, they can learn how to use such applications and they can have fun.
    To see my partners point of view about this project and visit her beautiful page you can click HERE!
    And by clicking HERE you can be a witness of our beautiful frienship! Have a nice day!

                                                                                   The source of the photograph