How to teacher 101

Hellooo!!! I'm back with a new project :) This week we focused on corpus. What is corpus, you may ask. I can say it's a teachers dream :) It is formulated linguistic data that you can use to determine how a word can be used. Basically, if you require a sentence with a specific word in it, you can find it at lextutor.ca .  Besides corpus, we learned about language awareness tasks. It can be explained as student driven learning. An example of language awareness task would be our task down below :) Görkem and I were given a language teaching book and we chose a chapter and subject. Our purpose was to give students a worksheet that makes them realize about the use of the subject on their own.  Take a look at this example we created and don't be afraid to ask questions if you have any :) Also make sure to check my friend Görkem's blog here . See you soon :)

 Hello everyone ! It is so good to be back here with you. After struggling to find motivation to write here, I was blessed to work with one of my favorite teachers again!!! She's the little push I needed to come back so let's thank her for that :D  After a full year of coronavirus, everything seemed to be going wrong in every way. I had no motivation, I was, still am, terrified for my life, I was tired etc. After contemplating my life style, I decided to change it up a bit to accommodate this new era. I started focusing more on natural life rather than the life we created with money. I can say it's going great so far.  I'm really excited to come back here! I hope all is going well with you too. Hope to see you soon :) Wear a mask, save lives :)

Hello there! This is our last week of school and I wanted to reflect on this terms Educational Technologies class. First of all, I want to thank my lecturer for all her efforts and her wisdom. I learned so many things about teaching and using technology for pedagogy. If I were to create a KWL chart (😊), I would say I knew nothing, basically. There were a few things I was curious about, like how to blog, how to create word clouds, how to edit a video... I learned all of the above and many more; I learned many pedagogical websites that me and my students will use for sure, I learned how I can contribute to my student's digital life, as well as their physical life, I learned how my work at school shouldn't have to be limited to school grounds, I learned how to be a different teacher… I think the most important part of this lesson was how our teacher guided us through the process, as a 21st century teacher, instead of giving us the concrete information. We learned wha...

Hello there! This week, my goal was to create a magazine cover. Even though it took a while to make it, I had fun creating it. My first goal was to choose my topic. I decided on traveling because it is a topic where I can find many resources. Later, I picked some "articles" that will be on my cover and some photos that I can use. After that, I looked for a website that would help me create a cover. I picked venngage because it gives you templates to work on but the whole thing is limited to your creativity. The last step was me being creative :). I will share my cover down below and I hope you'll like it.  

Hello there! This week our task was to explore web 2.0 tools and pick 3 of them to create an infographic. I knew a part of them but I learned so many more. We learned about Padlet in class,for example, but I learned about vialogues and lessonwriter as well. Vialogues is a tool where you can create video discussion. Lessonwriter is a tool that you can share paragraphs for reading class and the tool will generate material for you. These are not the only ones I found but they are what interested me. I will share my infographic down below and I hope you'll like it.

Digital Storytelling! Hello there! This week we attempted digital storytelling! What is digital storytelling you might ask, it is a short form of digital media production that allows everyday people to share aspects of their story (retrieved from wikipedia.com ). So, me and my friend Melissa decided to make a storytelling video. First step we took was to come up with a story to tell. It really pushed our imagination to it's limits. After deciding, we did some research on (spoiler alert) dinosaurs. Since Melissa came up with the idea, she wrote the script, and I planned our video. After planning, we recorded our voices and retrieved our visuals from pixton.com . At this step, I was a little confused because I needed to edit a video,which I have never done before. A few trials later, I finished the video!!  Now is the time to get your feedback. Please check our video below and tell us what you think. Adventure of the Archaeologists Written by: Melissa Kaya Animated b...

Hello there! This week, me and my friends, Tuba and Elif , created a padlet. Padlet is an online wall where you can share your own ideas and opinions. You can also use it as a group, like us. We decided that we will share our ideas about traffic, but realized we don't know much of it. So we created a Kwl chart. Kwl charts have 3 or more sections that you can customize. We used three parts, left part for what we already know, middle part for questions that we have and right side for the answers for those questions. If you wish to check it out, it's right here! Hope you'll like it.