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GOOD BYE MY FRIENDS :"

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 Hello my friends and welcome back to my blog! Today I will be writing my last post as we have come to the end of this term already. I have been sharing the things we learned and did in our Current Issues in Teaching course and I hope that it was beneficial for you. Overall, I really enjoyed taking this course as I learned a lot about technology in education and I can see myself coming back to my blog page to check all the activities I have created and the websites I have used to hopefully use them in my lessons in the future.  Although I learned a lot, I must admit that creating all these activities was quite challenging as we had to be creative, come up with nice activities, and sit in front of our computers for hours and hours to complete one task. My favorite activity that I've created this year is AR/VR activity. Although it was challenging to complete, I found it very beneficial as a teaching material and I would definitely use it in my classes in the future. When it com...
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USING AI TO CREATE TEACHING ACTIVITIES

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  Hello my friends and welcome back to my blog! Today I am going to talk about my experience creating an AI activity for English lessons. Me and my friend Serra Kara chose the Movies unit from the English book for Preparatory year students to create our activity. We used Canva for the activity.  First, we needed a short action story and decided to use ChatGPT to create it. We carefully put our prompts to ensure the story was relevant to the topic and its level was appropriate for our students. Then, we used Microsoft Bing to generate a picture/movie poster for our story. We tried to make our instructions as clear as possible for the students.   Overall, it was an easy and fun experience and I would definitely consider integrating AI into my English classes in the future. I will be sharing our activity right here for you to see. Don't forget to share your opinions with me!!
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OUR AR/VR INTEGRATED TEACHING MATERIAL!

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    Hello my friends and welcome back to my blog page!  Today, I'm going to write about my experience creating an AR/VR-integrated teaching material. For this assignment, I worked with my friend Serra Kara . We decided to create a material on visiting Rome, Italy. We used Canva to prepare our material as we both are familiar with it. For the landmarks, we chose the Colosseum and the Pantheon. Then, we found 360 videos and informational videos about both places on YouTube for the students to explore. We turned the links into QR codes using this site. We also needed to find a virtual museum in Rome for our material. Using this site, we linked a virtual museum for our students to visit. As a part of our material, we also had to write questions for each part for students to answer after watching the videos. For this part, we used the help of Magic School Ai  as well as the questions that we wrote ourselves. Overall, this was my favorite teaching material so far and I...
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FLIPPED CLASSROOM

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  Hello my friends and welcome back to my blog page! In this post, I would like to introduce you to a teaching method that I really like; Flipped classroom. This method basically changes the traditional classroom setting that we are all used to seeing by making students learn at home and practice at school. The thing I like the most about this approach is that it allows students to have enough time to practice during the lesson hours as the theoretical part is already learned before the class. The teachers can record themselves or use videos prepared by the other teachers and share them with their students to watch and learn before coming into the class. It also allows students to be in charge of their own learning as it is their responsibility to learn the topic. On the other hand, it might be a bit challenging for the teacher to prepare or find appropriate videos for each topic and for the students to use their spare time to study at home.  Me and my friend ( Serra ) also tr...
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MY CORPUS BASED TEACHING MATERIAL!

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Hello my friends and welcome back to my blog!  Today I am going to be talking about my experience of creating a corpus-based teaching material for the first time. For this assignment, we were supposed to choose a teaching unit from an English coursebook that is used by preparatory year students in Turkey. Me and my pair ( serra ) chose the difference between the adjectives ending with -ed and -ing (to give an example, bored/boring) from Unit 5. The reason is that we as Turkish EFL students have found it hard to differentiate between these usages when we started learning English. Thinking that our target audience may also struggle with this issue, we wanted to design our material on this topic.   With this corpus-based material, our students will be able to have a chance to use technology effectively in the language classroom as well as take part in the discovery learning process which is an important component of 21st century learning.  Designing the corpus-based mat...
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WELCOME BACK TO MY BLOG!!!

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  Hello my friends, and welcome back to my blog page!!  I am back after a short break. I will be leaving the link to my 'about me' page right here in case you want to refresh your memory. I am currently taking a course named "Current Issues in Teaching" and my blog posts for this year are going to be related to what we learn in our classes. I hope you can  benefit from what I will be sharing and learn more about educational technologies with me. Once again it is nice to see you here and I look forward to meeting in my upcoming posts as well.  Till then, take care!
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My Final Post :"(

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Hello, my friends, and welcome back to my blog. Today I will be writing my final post on this blog. We have come to the end of this term and I want to talk about my opinions on the Educational Technologies class we had and the tasks we have completed to this day.  Before taking this class, I didn’t think that using technology in the language classroom would be this important for the student’s learning process. We started the term with a unit called 21st-century learning and I saw that using technology has a very important place in this century’s classrooms. As a teacher candidate, I find this class to be very important because if I didn’t have this class, I would probably use traditional methods to teach.  We have completed a lot of different tasks and I found some of them to be very beneficial and fun while others to be hard. If I had to choose one, I would choose the Padlet task as my favorite. To make the project we came together at one of my friends’ house and worked toget...
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