Hayrünnisa

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