A WIKI EXPERIENCE

Hello everyone! I am sharing this week's assignment with you. It is a pair work again. This time we experienced how to use a wiki page. My friend and I, collaboratively, wrote a film review about an academy-award winner film called Interstellar, which both of us watched. We used a guideline, an instruction, prepared by our teacher which really helped us writing it.

This was also a different assignment for me because, though I read film reviews, this is the first time I tried to write one myself with my partner. First we read some examples and also used the example our teacher provided us with. The hardest part was writing some hard-hitting phrases to arouse excitement about the film but I guess we accomplished, or at least we tried. Read and decide it yourselves. Did you want to watch the movie after you read it?

I also want to thank my partner for his collaboration. You can check his blog from here!

A PODCASTING TRIAL

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Hello, everyone. This week I'm sharing a podcast with you. For those who are not familiar with what podcasting is and how it can help us. Podcasting is mostly made up of audio recordings, it can be videos as well, and it can serve for different purposes such as entertainment, education, facts, news etc. 

This podcast I'm sharing with you is a pair work. My friend and I created this podcast as our assignment. We created a sound rich short-story and narrated it together. Although, at first, we thought about using digital sound effects but, then we changed our minds because we wanted something that is purely our work. 

Personally, I thought that it would be so hard to record it and it would take too much time. But, we made a great team and created it after a few tries. The hardest point was making the sound effects and narrate the story at the same time. Because switching between these two different actions confused us most of the time. After all, we quite laughed at ourselves and really enjoyed the process. It was kind of a first step for us and we now feel confident about trying to create other podcasts. You can also check out his blog from here.

I hope you enjoy listening it as much as we enjoyed creating it. Here is our PODCAST!

TECHEDUCATION - 21st CENTURY

21st century learning consists of a variety of elements. Learning can happen in every aspect of life or it is life long, we can say. Students are more active in the classroom and teacher-student interaction has increased more since the last decade. 

Technology is becoming more and more dominant as a result of fast innovations in our lives. I think this interaction with technology makes children more creative in digital environments. 

"TECHEDUCATION". It's a term that I created to summarize 21st century learning. Learners in our era, especially young learners grow up with technology. Most of them start to use technology when they are 2-3 years old, even more effective than adults.

As 21st century teachers, we MUST integrate technology properly into our education. It can create a more familiar learning environment as their literacy of technology, of information will be much higher than ours. It will be only then we can be more successful teachers, I believe. 

WELCOME!

Hello, everyone. Welcome to my blog. It's a pleasure to see you here. I'am an ELT student at Marmara University for 2 years now. I wanted to open this blog to share my ideas, some news, latest developments, and some teaching materials concerning the ELT Department.

We are in 2017 and the world becomes more globalized each day. English, being at the center of this change, we English teachers should be aware of how we teach English to our students. Learning and self development of a teacher should be life-long. By the means of this self development, a teacher should cross the boundaries of time and reach every student in the conditions of their period.

As a candidate English teacher, by using this blog, I would like to help other English teachers to learn new and exciting information about the field and also help them develop themselves.