OUR ''CORPLAN''!

  

As a kilometer stone, we integrate corpus into language learning in the classroom. 

What is Corpus?

Oxford Learner's Dictionaries define corpus as ''a collection of written or spoken texts''.

How to Use It?

In the classroom, corpora enable students to learn by themselves the mentioned subject. They will be able to observe any word in any context in any form!

The Corpus Plan My Friend and I Created

We used a preparatory school student's book as a source to prepare our material. We prepared an inductive material that leads students to discover the features of the language by themselves;  which provides data-driven learning for them.  We direct them to search for examples for may, might, must, and can. This way, they become acquainted with the usage of them and aware of how these properties of the target language are used, with which they achieve language awareness.

You can have a look at my partner Ali Görkem's post

HERE I AM AGAIN!

 

Welcome folks! This semester, I am continuing to share the tools I create for the Material Design Course, in which I will learn brand new types and styles just as I did in the Educational Technologies Course.

I am looking forward to conveying every thought and product I will come up with. Thinking about how beneficial these materials will be for my future students is truly breathtaking. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, you will find something for yourself, too!

Everything Comes to an End...

We have come to the end of the semester and of this course. During this term, we learned too much about how to integrate technology into  ELT. I was not into websites which are based on learning, however, with the help of the classes we took and the assignments we accomplished, I genuinely became able to improve myself and these also will help me in the future about how to teach my lessons by including technology.
That we had to complete an assignment for every week was a little bit competitive, though. But with the help of documents which were uploaded by our teach, we were able to do our tasks more easily. One of the things I liked the most about this course was realising how easy we could use websites and tools in order to create new things from which we can benefit, and how fun to use them can be. We created comics, posters, etc. And we learned a lot of websites which will provide an easiness for us future teachers. We learned how fast technology can change and how much we have to keep pace with the constantly improving technology. This course really made me aware of the fact that we can never get away from the technology, for this reason, we have to learn how to get along with it and apply it into our and our students' lives. We created projects with constituing groups with our friends, so it really helped us share tasks and constitue products by ourselves, and products were really satisfying as we put all our effort in it.
As our teacher was really good at showing us how to use technological tools and apply them into ELT, and as the assignment she gave were really helped us understand the subjects, I cannot recommend anything but making more practices in the computer lab.
Thank you guys for your time reading my blog and having look at my assignments, it means the world to me!

That's My Infographic!!

Hi folks! My other assignment is to create an infographic project. I hope you like it!

My infographic for the educational technologies class is to create an infographic about web 2.0 tools, which allow people to express themselves and work in collaboration, using creativity.

We were supposed to choose our three favorite web 2.0 tools. The web 2.0 tools I chose are Canva, Padlet and Pixton. I explained how they are used and what are the opportunities they provide for people. In a century, in which technology and creativity take a huge place like that, those tools are very helpful for collaborative activities and stuff.

I prepared a collage of them, using Piktochart. You can comment your favorite web 2.0 tools, enjoy!

Let's Create a Magazine Cover!

Greetings from 2020!!
Hello folks, today I will share my assignment which is about creating a poster. It could be whether creating a movie poster or a magazine cover. I chose to create a magazine cover, as I am not into those kind of magazinish things, it was a big challenging task for me to accomplish, but here I am, very proud of completing my cover :)
I made my cover by using Canva. The name of my magazine is Nitid. And I chose one of my favorite singers for the cover, Taylor Swift. I was inspired from some other covers and added some titles for my magazine, I created my logo. It was all fun for me to design something. You can have a look at it:

Digital Storytelling

Hello everyone! This week's assignment is to create a digital storytelling. With my friends, Rıdvan and Mete, we decided to create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) by using storytelling. We used this in order to make people be aware of cyberbullying and make them save their children and themselves from this crime. We used a video on which we edited our voice records. This video includes children who are being exposed to cyberbullying, and it warn us not to be both cyberbully and the victim. For this reason, we thought that it would be a good awareness to convey with our assignment. I hope you enjoy, here is the link of our Public Service Assignment project:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYH3PN5GeTA

It's Padlet Time!

Hi everyone! For this week, our assignment is to create a Padlet with our group of four. Padlet allows both teachers and students to share their ideas about certain subjects. And our task is to choose a subject, to create a Padlet with three columns. For the first column, we write ''what we know'' about the subject. For the second column, we write ''what do we want to know'' about the subject. And for the last column, we write ''what we learned'' about the subject. So, we chose migration for our assignment. Everyone should write three sentences for each column.
I wrote the definition of migration, to which cities migration happens mostly, and the biggest migration happened in history, for the first column.
For the second one, i wrote ''what are the reasons for migration?'', ''what are the kinds of migration?'' and ''what are the results of migration?''.
For the final column, i wrote the answers of the questions above.
It was very beneficial for me insofar as i had to make researches for the questions of which answers i wanted to know. And it is one of the applications which i will definitely use for my future classes in order to make my students wonder and research for their own learning.