A Student's Perspective To EduTech

    Hello, my dear readers!      Today, I will tell you about how I and my Bengisu converted a classic presentation project to a technology-enhanced project. We used an English preparatory class students' book. I will give you the basic information here. You can read our WebQuest for more information because there, we wrote everything in detail. We used Zunal for creating the WebQuest. insightstoenglish      First of all, the project on the book wants students to make a presentation on a historical place in their cities. That was an individual project but we changed it to a group project. Our students are going to work as a group of 3. They will go to 3 historical places in their cities and shoot a documentary about them!  After that, they will record a podcast with the people around the historical place and ask some questions to them. They will upload their videos and podcast to YouTube (or any other platform).       W...

     Hello, my dear readers!      Today, I am going to tell you about great technology, Augmented Reality (AR). This technology helps you to see the things that are hard or impossible to reach. For example, you can see a planet closely thanks to AR. There are numerous thing that you can do by using AR and using it is very easy. You need a smartphone that supports AR technology and an AR application, that's all. r10      Did you know that you could visit a city virtually? I and my partner prepared an example for you. Are you ready to visit Krakow just sitting and looking at the screen? Let's go then!      First, let's look at our worksheets. These are your guidelines during the trip. Read the instructions carefully please.                                                      Here is the video of ...

     Hello, my dear readers!      Do you remember my previous post about flipped vocabulary video? This time we repeated the same concept by creating a flipped grammar video. Our topic is "illnesses" and our video aims to teach how to use "should" in a sentence. uscupstate      At the beginning of the video, we give brief information about the video. Then, the instructive part of the video starts. We show affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences and teach how to use them.       After this part, our doctor-patient dialogues come. We shot some videos with our families to make our students see real-life situations. Then, showed a game that our students can play at home with their families. Finally, we told them about their homework. Here's the video!      I loved creating flipped classroom videos. There are lots of things a teacher can do. We had so much fun while recording the videos and decorating th...

     Hello, my dear readers!      Have you ever tried flipping the classroom? Flipped Classroom means creating a video lesson for the students so that they can watch it at home. Then, you can spend more time on the classroom activities and target language use. In the traditional method, we waste our valuable and limited classroom time for introducing and lecturing. Even though the teacher needs to spend extra time creating these videos, flipping the classroom helps to catch the students' attention. Young learners need to be active in the class and the traditional lecturing method prevents the beneficial learning process. egitimtrend      I and Bengisu created a flipped classroom vocabulary video about movies for 5th-grade students. They will watch our video and complete 3 enjoyable exercises. Our video contains an introduction to the movie genres, a dialogue with our siblings about movies and an exercise introducti...

 Hello, my dear readers!      Today, I'm going to talk about how to use a corpus. Corpus is a collection of written texts or spoken texts in written form. You can write a word and see it in hundreds of different sentences. Using corpus in classrooms helps us to activate data-driven learning. skell      Corpus is a great tool because seeing all of the examples provides the student language awareness. For example, based on a preparatory book we prepared a worksheet which is about positive modal verbs. After seeing the verbs in the sentences, the student will have familiarity with the given verb. This will help him/her with future activities.       Here are our worksheets which we created on  Canva .      On our worksheet, I and Bengisu first wrote the instruction part. It's important for the students because showing the steps make them eager to start. We chose Skell as our corpus because it's free and easy to us...

     Hello, again my dear readers!      After more than a year, here I am! dribble      I was planning to keep posting about my new projects but a pandemic came up and it made me postpone my dreams. Now I'm happy that I have to post some things. Yes, I have to. Because this term I'm taking Material Design in ELT lesson. The course's teacher is the same as the previous lesson, Educational Technologies. I believe that I will learn so many valuable things and you will be able to see my progress because I will keep sharing lots of posts! freegreatpicture So keep reading them and please comment when you have an idea or a suggestion for me! See you in my next post!