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POSTERS!

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HELLO EVERYONE! My post is about posters , the design process, and their use as an educational tool. What Is a Poster? A poster is a  large   printed   picture  or  notice  put up  for advertising or  decoration.    (Cambridge Dictionary, 2020). The Task Our assignment for this week was to design a poster. The options were  creating a movie poster based on a book, and  designing a magazine cover.  I used the tool  Postermywall for my magazine cover which  has various templates for posters, banners, etc. First of all, I decided on my topic as minimalism and  included four different points on the cover using an appropriate font. D etails such as the date of the issue, logo, and barcode were included in the cover, just like a real one.  Here is my poster! Avenoir's audience is adults who are interested in minimalism in areas such as fashion, architecture, and lifestyle. How Can it Be Used in  a Language Classroom? Posters are very profitable tools for language teaching. It can be use

DIGITAL CANVAS - PADLET

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HELLO EVERYONE! My post will be about Padlet , how to create one, and its benefit in the education field. What is Padlet? Padlet is an application to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic ( TeachersFirst Review - Padlet ) .  It is a personal board on a digital platform that consists of ideas, links, pictures, videos, or even drawings. Padlet lets collaborative work as there is an option that allows many users to contribute anonymously or with a name. Padlet is a reliable technological tool because of the owner of the board permits who will post on the board. Our task was creating a KWL chart on Padlet. As it was a group project, we formed a group of five. The first step was choosing the topic from the given subjects. We decided on bullying that concerns schools to prevent it as pre-service teachers. After signing up, my friend created a wall that we will post the KWL chart. KWL chart consists of three columns named what we know, want to k

WIKI WIKI!

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HELLO EVERYONE! My post is about my experience with  wikiing that was given as a task in my educational technologies course. What Is a Wiki? Wiki is a website that every user can add or edit content. It comes from the Hawaii phrase wiki-wiki which means quick. But we shouldn’t forget that wiki is not a dependable source. Everyone from all around the world can add or edit the content hence there can be a lot of distorted information. My Experience With Wiki Our task was creating a wiki page about a book that we read and would recommend. First I signed up for PBworks after getting permission from the site. Afterward, I created a wiki page with the name of the book. On my page, I wrote a summary of the book, the book information, and my critique. All I left was clicking the publish button.  If you are curious you can click here to go to my book review page! I chose the book, Frankenstein since   it is considered the pioneer of sci-fi novels.   In my opinion, it is helpful for language

PODCASTING?!

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 HELLO EVERYONE! I am here with a post about podcasting . I will address what it is, the process, and my difficulties. What Is a Podcast? A podcast is an episode series of spoken word digital audio files that a user can download to a personal device for easy listening. (Wikipedia, 2020) In brief: i Pod + broad casting When we could go to school, listening podcast was a beneficial activity to spend time in transportation and learn about various topics for me. But this time, I was the creator ! To grasp the idea, I listened to the examples of the   "60-second idea" podcasts.   After researching the topic, I began to record my speech. It was a delightful process, except that my throat started burning due to the constant re-recording, and it was quite stressful to make it exactly 60 seconds. I recommend using Vocaroo as it is free and effortless. That's how simple  it is! As a pre-service teacher, I will practice podcasting in my classes. Listening to it is beneficial, but

ATTENTION! LEARNING UPDATE

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  HELLO EVERYONE!   I hope you are doing good. My post is about    21st-century learning   and  how it is significant for education. I want you to imagine ten years from now.  What are you doing?  How do you study? What do you use while studying? Now imagine the same scenario today. I am sure it is quite different. The time passed so fast that everything evolved so quickly.  We live in a bustling world that has improvements simultaneously. Thus in this globalized world, teaching should be improved too according to digital native's needs. The term  digital native  describes a person who has grown up in the digital age (rather than having acquired familiarity with digital systems as an adult, as a  digital immigrant ) (Wikipedia, 2020) . Therefore what we should understand is 21st-century learning. What is 21st-century learning? 21st-century learning refers to improvements in student's skills while teaching them learning contents. Instead of memorizing the subjects, the student s

WELCOME TO MY BLOG

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HELLO EVERYONE AND, WELCOME TO MY BLOG! Thank you for visiting my blog! I am Sümeyye, an English pre-service teacher.  In this blog, I will post about what a teacher needs for being an up-dated and skilled teacher in the 21st century. W hat sort of technological tools can a teacher use in their class to improve their student's skills and how to integrate them into lessons? I will do my best to improve and share my knowledge with you that will be beneficial for you readers. I am so excited to welcome you to my blog and, I hope you will be excited to explore my blog too!