FINAL POST OF THIS TERM!

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Hello everyone, after finishing the last task of this term I am finally here to write a goodbye post for you. This year this course contributed a lot to me. First, it taught me to combine technology with language teaching while preparing teaching materials. It helped me to learn how to prepare successful teaching materials for my potential students. I have learned so many important and useful apps through this course, I have learned how to use a corpus, and that flipped classroom is a beneficial method. However, again like last year's technology course, this was also the hardest course of the term because of the non-stop tasks. I don't think that we can find a solution to this because my instructor Gökçe Kurt was giving enough time and detailed instructions for our tasks. However, this course is difficult because it is time-consuming by nature. My favorite task of this course was preparing the corpus-based material because I learned a lot from the corpus while preparing the material. My least favorite task was absolutely the flipped classroom task because both the application we used, Animaker, was so hard to use and user-hostile and the task itself was so detailed, complex, and labor-intensive. I must say to the students who will take this course three important things:

1. Choose your group friends for the tasks carefully.

2. Research a lot about the apps you will use.

3. Read the tasks' instructions carefully and try to improve yourself in every task.

Finally, I want to say that I am so happy and feel improved since last year when I started taking Gökçe Kurt's technology courses. They contributed me a lot. Take care, everybody till we see each other again!


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