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        Hi, again!        Our homework for this week was creating a KWL chart which is a great way to learn something new. This chart includes three parts: what you know, what you want to know, what you learned.       To create a KWL chart, firstly you should write your background information on a certain topic, then find questions about what you want to know about that topic and finally find the best answers by searching websites for these questions.      While trying to find your answers, you encounter so many websites. I think this is great because you learn so much new information while you look for certain knowledge.      Also, I think including your background information helps you a lot in this type of project because you can see how your learning process developed. Also, you can compare your findings and knowledge simultaneously.       We used Padlet to create a KWL char...

     Hi everyone ,      This week we learned so much about wikis, as an assignment, we created a wiki of a film review. I choose not only an impressive but also frightening film to review because this film, Veronica, depends on the real paranormal incident whose details are shuddery. So it also makes you feel wondering while frightening.      This task is a good experience because until this task is given to us I’ve only heard the term of a wiki, but now I know how to write, edit and publish a wiki. It was easy to write a review of a film as a wikiing experience. I want to try another ways of wikiing.       I would probably use this task as an assignment for my future students because it helps their learning. For example, they can create dictionaries with their definitions to learn words of a target language.      Here is my wiki entry if you want to read:

             Hi, everybody!        This week our topic was podcasting, so I want to mention in podcasts.      Podcasting is a way of developing your language learning skills. As an assignment, we created a podcast in which we told a story with my friend Tugay. In our podcast, we tried to make a horror story which was about a cursed piano.      We presented the story as a narrator one by one. While creating it, firstly, we wrote a script and recorded the lines with our voices. Then we found sound effects to enrich our story. After that, I recorded some sounds on the piano, which we needed in our story. After the records and sounds were ready, we combined the sounds according to our script via a sound program.      There were some parts that we struggled in. For example, some sound effects did not match our content, so we looked for other ones. The other part we struggled with was that...

    Hi everyone,       T his week I want to touch on 21st century learning.      Technology is everywhere in our lives and, education is one of them. In the 21st century, we have direct access to technology thanks to the sources. By utilizing this kind of accessibility, we can reach any knowledge from anywhere.      We should develop our technical skills to maintain the integration of technology into our language learning because by learning a language with technology, we can have the opportunities that we couldn’t, for instance, to speak any language fluently you need to practice that target language with natives by using it, and the technological devices we use, give us a chance to schedule a meeting with natives, in which situation we can practice also take responsibility for learning by ourselves       From another point of view, I think we are obliged to learn how to use technology in today’s World, be...

     Hi everyone,             I hope you are all doing well and welcome to read my blog.       After some brief information about me, I want to introduce my blog to you!  This blog is created for my assignments and essays of the Educational Technologies course. In that assignment I'll give you information about the topics in our class, also try to increase your content knowledge about integrated technology skills in education. Because; integrating technology into our education is crucial in today's world, this blog is a little proof of that. We need technology to facilitate our learning skills. So I'll do this by using that blog.