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THE FINAL POST - GOODBYE

We've again come to end of the term and this is my goodbye post. Today, I will share my thoughts on my Material Design in English Language Teaching course since it is my last post about it. I'm glad that I took both of the lessons of our teacher, last term and this term, and I believe I saw teacher-part of the things through this year. Throughout the term, I did lot of tasks, I learned many different concepts about material design and they helped me a lot in terms of planning my future teaching. Thanks to this lesson, I know I've got many materials to use while creating something and I also learned how to transform coursebooks' projects and tasks to better ones. I really appreciate my teacher, Dr. Kurt for her lovely lectures, creative tasks, and all her efforts.

CREATING A WEBQUEST

Hi! Our final assignment is creating a webquest. The task was to redesign a project to make it technology-integrated. My teammates were Rabia and Yaren. We chose our project from MEB's Preparatory Class Student's Book. Here are the original project steps:  - Prepare your own poster about how to protect our nature and write your slogan on it as in the examples below.  - Then, present your poster to your friends. The original project was creating a poster which is composed of a slogan and a visual.  We changed it with creating an infographic which involves visuals and data. If a student wants to create a infographic, he/she needs to do a research before, collect data and visuals to use, and present it with their own words which enables them to facilitate their language skills. There are also options for them to choose, they have some websites to search, videos to watch in order to collect data. Also, the original project does not have any "problem" to solve. Students...

Augmented Reality

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 For this week, we were assigned a new task. We are supposed to implement AR (augmented reality) into our teaching material.  I decided to do tour of a city. I chose one of the most famous cities in the world, London. This city is really well known so it was easy to find materials. I often used 360 Youtube videos for landmarks. British Museum, London Eye, Buckingham Palace. I also presented Chinese New Year Festival.  I created some questions for students, using Canva then added QR codes of the Youtube videos. Rest was easy. I put together all of this and finished my task. 

CREATING A GRAMMAR TEACHING VIDEO-A GROUP PROJECT

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Today, we continue the task that is previous one. We designed a flipped grammar teaching video with a worksheet. We were given a course book and target audience. We chose the "simple past tense". Our creative process was very fun and we had the experience from previous task we made. Animaker was the tool i used, and my teammates Rabia Yüksel and Yaren Topçu recorded their voices.  Rabia Yüksel Yaren Topçu Oğuz Kaleş

Flipped Vocabulary Teaching Video

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 Hi everybody. Our new task is creating a flipped vocabulary teaching video for young EFL learners. Our aim is to reverse the traditional classroom procedure by delivering the instructional content online before class so that during class time, learners engage in problem solving or cooperative-learning tasks under the guidance of the instructor. We created an vocabulary teaching video, using Animaker and an exercise, using Wordwall. My teammates Yaren and Rabia narrated the video and i created the animation and edited it.  With flipped vocabulary teaching video, learners feel ready to class and this help them focus on the subject. This is also a great way to reduce the time spent on teacher's explaining the subject. However, some students may not watch the video and cannot keep up with their peers. I would also love to use this system when i become a teacher.  We chose 5th grade textbook to create this video. It's about daily routines. My friends Yaren and Rabia created a...

Creating a Language Awareness Task

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In our new course, we are supposted to create an exercise about a subject that could be confused by many students. We had to use Corpus while creating this exercise and I really didn't know so much about Corpus. I should have learned what Corpus is and how it is used and i did. Corpus is a program that gives you sentence examples of a word or phrase. I find it very useful while creating an exercise and this all about our task. We created our exercise by using Canva, with my teammes Rabia Yüksel and Yaren Topçu. It is a tool that is very useful when we are supposed to create a material. This task has made me a better designer of material and I have learned how to use Corpus.   My partners:  Rabia Yüksel: https://rabiayyuksel.blogspot.com/?m=1 Yaren Topçu: http://yarentopcu.blogspot.com/ Also a link to our task: Link

Comeback

Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog. I hope you're all healthy. I've come back with our new course, Material Design. We will start with new tasks and more. Stay tuned!