The Journey of Teacher Candidate

  Hi everyone, welcome to my blog. This is my last post and it feels kind of weird because I got used to writing here about my tasks. We created that blog for our lesson named Educational Technologies. This class aims to teach us how technology can be used effectively while teaching English. I think that this class taught us much more. Beside learning how to use technology, we also experienced group work and this experience gives us a clue about our future students. Before that class, I wasn’t aware of the importance of technology while teaching English. But now, I am aware of it and in my future classes I will use technology very effectively. Also; until we start teaching in classes, technology will be developed much more. That’s why we must follow technological developments all the time and integrate it into our lessons. In short; at the present time, we can’t ignore the benefits of technology while teaching and we should benefit from it.  When we talk about our tasks, I gue...

  Hi everyone, welcome to my blog. Today I am going to write about our task in “Educational Technologies” class. This task is digital storytelling and we have a couple of options. We should do it in pairs or groups, so Betül and I decided to work in pairs. We chose “HOW TO” projects and decided to give a recipe.  This process was a bit difficult because we couldn’t decide what we should do at first. We also thought of recording a video about how to draw X but we decided on a recipe video. To record this video, at first we bought our ingredients for our sandwich. We both stay in the dorm, so it was challenging to find a peaceful place to record the video. After finding that place, I asked my roommate for her help and she held the camera for me. While recording the video, we enjoyed it a lot. When the recording part was done, I sent the video to Betül and she edited it with “ınShot”. After this, we recorded our voices at the school and added our voices to the video by using the...

  Hi everyone, today I am going to write about the poster that we are assigned to make. Unlike the other tasks, this one single person task.  In this assignment, we have 2 options. One of them is creating a movie poster about the book that we read. The other one is creating a magazine cover. At first I thought of creating a movie poster and choosing my book. But then I realized that these books already have real movies, so I changed my mind and started to create a magazine cover. To create a poster, I searched for a couple of programs to edit but then I decided to use Canva . Canva also has an application for telephone and I used that because it was easier for me. Firstly, I checked the present magazine cover template for ideas and I chose one to edit it according to me. I couldn’t decide whether to create a cooking magazine cover or a music magazine cover. I tried both of them but the music one looked more professional for me. I used a photo of my favorite rap artist for the ...