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Writing A Film Review For The First Time

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Hello my friends and welcome to my blog!  Today I am going to be writing about my experience of writing a film review for the first time. As I have mentioned before, I am taking a course named “Educational Technologies”. And in this course, we were given a film review assignment in which we had to work in pairs while learning about the wikis.   Me and my partner Serra , have decided to watch a movie called Pocket Hercules: Naim Süleymanoğlu. While watching the movie we took some notes according to the instructions that we were given by our teacher. When we finished watching, we discussed our notes and what we should be writing in our entry.  It was kind of hard to find how to log in to the page but we asked our friends and they helped us so I am very thankful for that. Something I liked about wikis is that we all can edit the pages and add things at the same time. I think it saves us a lot of time when working collaboratively.  In our case, it took us around fou...

A New Era In Education: 21st Century Learning

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  Hello, my friends!   Today I'm going to be writing about 21st-century learning.   As 21st-century people, technology has already been at the center of our lives for a while. From socializing to educational purposes, when used correctly, it can be very useful to improve our life quality; therefore, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that   it' s an integral part of our lives .   It's hard to imagine a world where we don’t have the access to technology, especially for the generation that was born into it: Gen Z, the digital natives .   As teacher candidates from the ELT department, our students will mostly be from this generation so it's significant for us to integrate the use of technology into our classes to get the best results in our teaching. There are three main skills that our students must be improved at in 21st-century learning and one of them is  media & technology skills.  (taken from here .) A type of lesson in which the teacher lect...

Welcome to My Blog!!

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  Hello my friends and welcome to my blog!  As I have mentioned in the about me section, I am Betül and I study English Language Teaching at Marmara University. Among the classes that I take this semester, there is a course named "Educational Technologies" where we learn about the use of technology in English teaching. I opened this blog mainly to share and document what I learn during my Educational Technology classes. I hope my posts will be beneficial for anyone who is interested in this area. Thank you so much for visiting my page and I'm hoping to see you again during my journey as a blogger! 💙💙💙