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  Hey guys! This week we prepared a grammar teaching video, using flipped approach. I worked with my friend Görkem and we chose conditionals as our topic. We began by studying the subject thoroughly. After that, we decided on how to explain the subject. We prepared a slide using Canva on the subject and started recording our voices.  After we were done, we created some handouts as well as a Wordwall project. You can see them down below. To be honest, this was a harder assignment than our other works but I can easily say it was educative. I was having a hard time with synchronizing the materials. In the end, it turned out pretty well :) If you have time, please take a look at our video :) See you in the next assignment... Also, here is Görkem's post about our work. Here's the puzzle we've created on Wordwall. Here are the worksheets we created.

 Hi guys! This week, we studied on flipped classroom approach. To be honest, I didn't know this was a thing! If I explain it very simply, I can say it's like online teaching, but definitely better. You get to create a video of your lesson, then share it with the class so that they can learn at their own pace. There's no time limitations whatsoever. I think it's a pretty fun process for the teacher and the student, if they are good with online tools :)  We got to make a flipped lesson with Görkem and we'd like to share the steps we took with you! Also, you are welcomed to check our lesson down below :) As the first step ,  we chose our focus, which ended up being vocabulary. After doing some research on the vocabulary group, we got to work. We chose to work with fifth graders and picked unit two called my town. After that, we created a slide on Canva . Did you know it enables you to embed sounds into the slide? We did just that :) After thoroughly preparing our slid...

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.