Hayrünnisa

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 mat...

 Hello there, how are you? I hope you are great. This week me and my friend Eda Karaca finished the last task of the term. It was again a contributing one. You know benefiting from AI has become inevitable in 21st-century language teaching and learning. Thus, we created an AI- integrated teaching material for our potential students. Our target group was EFL high school prep students. And I thought that using AI for a collaborative writing task would be different and fantastic for students. Therefore we decided to collaborate with AI for a story-writing activity about gender discrimination. First, we created the template for our material on Canva and wrote the pre-, target, and post-parts three pages long. We used ChatGPT as the target tool however for feedback we added ElsaSpeak as well to help students improve their pronunciation, internalize what they wrote by reading aloud, and getting feedback about both their pronunciation and story-writing skills. And then we created our ass...

Hello everyone,  This week our task was creating an AR integrating teaching material, and I worked with my friends Perihan Bozdağ, Meryem Dilara Demirkaynak, and Eda Karaca. First, we chose the option most suitable for us, then chose our country which was France, and started working. For this project, we decided on Canva because it is one of the most user-friendly apps. After, selecting the places in France, everyone searched for 360 videos and created QR codes for these videos. Finally, we wrote our "information and instructions" and "answer the questions" sections, in my opinion, this task was the most enjoyable task of this term. I will definitely use AR-integrated teaching materials when I start teaching, I believe they are really beneficial and fun for students. This is the link to our task , this is the  link to the ASSURE plan of our task   and finally, these are the links to the blog posts of my friends  Meryem Dilara Demirkaynak ,  Eda Karaca , and...

This week, our task was to create a flipped classroom video. Fatma Reyhan Tuğ, Serra Bozkurt, and I worked together on this project. First, we decided on the type of video we would create. We concluded that an animated lesson video would be the best option for us. Then, we chose the application we would use. Unfortunately, we selected Animaker without realizing that it has many cons that made it very difficult to use. This application made the task twice as challenging as it needed to be. It froze so many times that we had to record the same content more than twice. It even deleted some of our work, forcing us to recreate it. It was not user-friendly at all, and I will never use this application again. Despite these difficulties, I learned important lessons from this task, which I plan to apply when I start teaching. A flipped classroom model can be highly beneficial if implemented effectively. However, this was, by far, the most difficult task I have encountered during my three years ...

Hello there! This term, our first task was to create corpus-based teaching material. We were required to choose a corpus and design teaching material and a lesson plan based on it. We chose CorpusMate because it is more handy. For the topic, we decided on "Should vs. Must". After selecting the topic, we developed the materials, determined the activities to include, and ensured that students could easily use CorpusMate with our instructions on the worksheet. Once the material were complete, we started to plan the lesson using the ASSURE model and facilitated various lesson plan templates. Because we created this material and lesson plan for an ideal classroom there are potential challenges that can happen in a real classroom if our material is implemented. I want to write about them. One major problem could be the lack of adequate internet access or the unavailability of electronic devices like computers. In our country, many high schools do not have the technological infrastr...

Hello there!  My name is Hayrünnisa, and I study ELT at Marmara University. As you can remember, last year, we had a course on Instructional Technologies and Material Design in ELT. This year, we have another course called "Current Issues," which is a follow-up to that course. From now on, I will use this blog to share my "Current Issues" course's tasks, task processes, and experiences with you.

 Hi everybody, we ended the term and this is my final post for this course. First, I want to say that it was the most complex course of our department until now but I really enjoyed it. It changed my opinions about using technology in the classroom. Everybody was talking about the benefits of technology in teaching but I was not be able to understand them until taking this course. Tasks were so beneficial for our instructions in the future but some were really hard and embarrassing. For example, digital storytelling was the most difficult one and I didn't enjoy it. However, collaborative writing task and the last task of the term were really enjoyable and not that much difficult. Throughout this course I have learned using so many applications or websites such as Padlet, magic school AI, there's an AI for that, etc. I am glad that I took this course and my lecturer is Gökçe KURT <3

 Hello there, this is my final task for this course. It was the most enjoyable task I have ever done. It was using artificial intelligence and interviewing a historical figure through the chatbot. I have chosen Bahriye Üçok who is the first Turkish woman professor and I asked questions about her life, academic work, and some specific questions. I love her and while reading the chatbot's responses my eyes filled with tears because it was like a real conversation. I think AI has so many benefits such as helping students to save time and get correct feedback and it facilitates learning. As I have said before it was the most enjoyable task for me there are so many pros of AI but the most important con was the app was stopping without reason and it consumed my time and challenged me. I think I can integrate these AI tools easily into my lessons. For example, I can give my students a writing task and they can get feedback and correct themselves through AI. In a long story short, I enjoye...

 Hello everybody, this week our task was collaborative writing and we were expected to either write a film review or about a global or local issue. We have worked in groups and my group consisted of three people; Sümeyya, Sümeyra, and me. I think this task was the easiest and most enjoyable one of all. I really enjoyed when doing this task and my friends were so hardworking. We first decided to choose our topic and we thought that it should be something that chases our attention so that we can search and write about it. That's why we chose the migration problem in our country to search about. Then, we thought about what we know and what we want to know about this issue. After that part, for me, I personally tried to find articles related to my questions rather than videos or other kinds of information sources. After reading the articles I chose the best one for my questions and used it. It was an enjoyable task, I really liked it and these are links to my friends' blogs and our...

Hello everyone, our task was digital storytelling this week; it was my first time creating such a thing. Actually, it was the most difficult task ever. It was difficult because we hadn't accomplished a task resembling this before. I needed to learn how to use applications advised by our instructor; learning it was one of the most challenging steps. First, Bilge Dilara Doğan and I decided on the type of it. We have chosen fictional digital storytelling because we thought that it would be more fun. And, then we created the story, characters, and the script. We used Pixton to create the background and characters. I think it was the most handy app. After that, we recorded our voice and edited it. However, the voice quality was not that good because we both live in a dorm and it was hard to find a quiet place to record our voice. Finally, I uploaded the video on YouTube, and here is the link:  Digital Story  And this is the link to my partner's blog:  Bilge Dilara Doğan

 Hello there, today I have recorded a podcast. It was both tiring and fun actually. My podcast was a monologue one. Because I decided to work individually rather than with a pair. I've talked about my idea to improve or make the world a better place. The most difficult part of the task was the searching part. Because basing my thoughts on a concrete basis was hard. However, I have overcome it. First, I scanned articles on the internet about my topic and then wrote a script for my 60-second-long podcast. After that, I recorded my voice a couple of times chose the best one, and edited it. To be honest, I would like to say that the recording part was a little bit stressful for me. I think it really supports learning, and later in my teaching years I would like to give such a task to my students and I can prepare podcasts for my students as well. I think there are so many advantages to giving a podcast task. advantages are, that it facilitates learning, it helps students to correct the...

For week 7 in the instructional technologies course, we were supposed to design an infographic about ethical and legal issues related to effective technology use and I've completed mine right now. I designed an infographic for the first time so I think it was a little bit difficult. First, I decided on the specific topic that I wanted to use, and then I searched about this topic on internet. I have chosen safety and privacy issues as my topic and after searching I have taken notes. Then I searched about how to design an infographic and gathered general information. I used the Canva application for my task. I think it is a useful application for these kinds of tasks. I have tried different templates and ultimately decided on the one that I used. It is important to use legible fonts and colors in an infographic so I took into consideration these things as well.

 As a teacher candidate, I think 21st-century learning includes so many different terms. Two of the most important of these terms are critical thinking and digital literacy. Critical thinking briefly is questioning everything and looking for concrete evidence while searching for something. Digital literacy is to be able to benefit from technology in the education process. In the 21st century, it is vital to integrate technology in language classrooms because it has good effects on language learning. First, technology supports personalized learning, it gives importance to individual learner needs. And second, through using technology you can expose your students to different multimedia content which will enhance their learning. Using technology, teachers can provide their students with a language learning process that is both contemporary and more efficient. In summary, in this century it is vital to integrate technology into language classrooms because it supports learning with so ...

 Hey there! welcome to my world. I want to start by talking a little bit about myself. I am Hayrünnisa. I am an English Language Teaching Department student at Marmara University. I have opened this blog because I want to become an English teacher who can greatly use Instructional technologies. In this blog, I will share both my tasks given in the second term of the 2023- 2024 academic year and my experiences within this course. I hope you will enjoy and learn while reading my blog. If you are a student or teacher follow me and I hope you won't regret it!