Glogster

This time we were supposed to create a poster about 21st century communication. In this project we had to work in pairs again and I worked with Edanur Özer. The process was not very difficult. We just had to have some idea and data. So, we shared our ideas with each other and decided to how to create. Creating a poster is really enjoyable with glogster, if you want to create a poster you can visit glogster and create with ease.

Here is our glogster, hope you all enjoy it :)

Digital Storytelling

This week our assingment was making a digital storytelling in pairs. My partner in this project was Edanur Özer. For me, it was the most difficult task that we had so far. It was time-consuming. We had to choose a topic, prepare cartoons and the characters and so forth. Other than that, in this assigment we were supposed to write a script. To tell the truth, it was not very easy. In addition, recording our voice was the most challenging part because we had to find a suitable (noiceless) place. Taking video was also challenging. On the other hand, we had so much fun in this process. We draw pictures and used variety of colorful pastels to paint them and cut them like children :) As a result, this assignment was required a creativity so, in the future I will absolutely give this task to my students to enhance their creativity.

Here is our digital storytelling;



I also prepared a "wordle" project to identify our digital storytelling. If you want to create "wordle" you can do it easily by visiting wordle.

Here is my wordle;




Hope you all enjoy these :)

Puzzles: Brain Boosters

Hello everybody!

What do you think about puzzles? My idea about puzzles is puzzles are one of the best brain boosters. I am mentioning about puzzles because this week our assignment was prepearing a puzzle. I have always tried to solve puzzles until this assignment. This time I created puzzles and it was funny. I higly recommend to you creating a puzzle, if you want, discovery education help to you. I prepeared two kind of puzzles, one of the puzzles is word search puzzle and it is about jobs and professions and the other is criss-cross puzzle and it is about human body. Here are my puzzles;

Criss-Cross Puzzle

JOBS AND PROFESSIONS

Clues:

Across
3. someone whose job is to design buildings
5. someone who has professional training in legal work or who is an expert in the law
6. someone whose job is to make men's clothes, that are measured to fit each customer perfectly
8. someone whose job is to treat people's teeth
10. a skilled cook, especially the main cook
11. someone whose job is to design or build roads, bridges, machines etc
13. someone who writes news reports for newspapers, magazines, television, or radio
14. someone who plays a musical instrument, especially very well or as a job
16. someone whose job is to teach, especially in a school
18. someone who takes photographs, especially as a professional or as an artist
19. someone who sings
Down
1. someone who is trained to treat people who are ill
2. someone who works or is trained in science
4. a person who cuts and arranges people's hair in particular styles
7. someone who is trained in psychology
9. a scientist who studies the stars and planets
12. someone whose job is to look after people who are ill or injured, usually in a hospital
15. someone who owns or manages a farm
17. someone who has written a book

18. someone who operates the controls of an aircraft or spacecraft

(ARCHITECT, ASTRONOMER, AUTHOR, CHEF, DENTIST, DOCTOR, ENGINEER, FARMER, HAIRDRESSER, JOURNALIST, LAWYER, MUSICIAN, NURSE, PHOTOGRAPHER, PILOT, PSYCHOLOGIST, SCIENTIST, SINGER, TAILOR, TEACHER)

Word Search Puzzle

HUMAN BODY

E H C A M O T S A S Z O J V G Q D T R Y 
Z U D H V L V U R T K C R A Z E P H D W 
X O G L E Z H Y M T E E T H W U L U X K 
V J E N M S Y O P R U Y W T F B P M T A 
H G B A O K T X B R Z W I P E S T B N T 
Y L O R M T E P K N E E E M D J B F W Q 
J O L I B H A M F K C E N A J H T Z I D 
Z R X Z G U D N U R H C I N T O S I N P 
P K G S T T Z Q R T O O H U O C Z B O Z 
J D Z Z R I F G E K V X O F P T L L Z V 
L V P X E I V S G K S M Z A G G C I W N 
E R I N Y W H Y N R M G L W B J W O P B 
G E L Q T O Y B I L A M R A E H W W Q Z 
G H U Q U K V K F L K U U L A L R S T U 
C B C L A A T Z T V Q R V H E M S G R N 
D L D D J B O K Y K J P Y A A Y K I T L 
M E K F D R B W A O Y D U S L A E J U D 
R Z I C Y W P Z P F X G K D F H R I X N 
A M C A A E K K J S M M J F Q G R X B A 
Q R Q B L B K G Y C V B L Z B V E Y A H 
Clues:
ARM
BACK
CHEST
EAR
EYE
FINGER
FOOT
HAND
JAW
KNEE
LEG
LIP
MOUTH
NECK
PALM
SHOULDER
STOMACH
TEETH
THUMB
TONGUE

These are my puzzles, I hope you'll enjoy them :)

Webquest Project

This week, we were supposed to evaluate a webquest. I used rubric provided our teacher to evaluate. The webquest is Homophones. Here is the link.

Overall Aesthetics
Overall Visiual Appeal: Relevant graphics are used in every page of the webquest. There are some variations but not too much. But there are not adequte differences in the text to direct the attention to relevant words. 2 points.
Navigation&Flow: Each page of the webquest are connected with each other in a regular way, moving one page to another is very easy, getting lost is almost impossible. 4 point.
Mechanical Aspects: There are no broken links, misplaced pictures or misspelling errors, everting is well-organized. 2 points.

Introduction
Motivational Effectiveness of Introduction: In this webquest, there are attractive and funny questions that grab learner's attention. 2 points.
Cognitive Effectiveness of Introduction: The introduction of the webquest is effective enough with questions and it examine learner's prior knowlegde. Learner's can understand what the lesson is about. 2 point.

Task
Connection of Task to Standards: The task is explained in a clear way it is related to standads. 4 points.
Cognitive Level of the Task: The task is a quite easy to do but at the same time it is very beneficial for learner's. 3 points.

Process
Clarity of Process: The steps of the process are explicitly clarified and lots of sources are attached so learners can understand what they have to do with ease. 4 points.
wScaffolding of Process: Different strategies are used in the wequest that assist to learners achieve the task. 6 points.
Richness of Process: The steps of the process are adequate and explanations are very clear. In addition, the tasks help students to understand different perspectives in accomplishing the task. 2 points.

Resources
Relevance & Quantity of Resources: The webquest has sufficient number of resources that appropriately connected to each other. Learners can greatly benefit from resources. 4 point.
Quality of Resources: Varied resources provided in the webquest are very beneficial for learners. 4 point.

Evaluation
Clarity of Evaluation Criteria: The criteria for success provided in the form of rubric assess learners success. The rubric has both qualitative and quantitative descriptors. 6 points.

I scored this webquest 45 points out of 50.

Thank you for your attention! :)

Wiki Project

Hi everyone!
This week we were supposed to create a wiki page and we introduced our favorite books on our wiki pages and I introduced The Museum of Innocence. I have never done this before -creating a wiki page- so I really enjoyed this project and I discovered new webpage. As a future teacher, I must always discover new things. In my opinion, wiki is very beneficial for EFL learners to improve their writing skill. You can visit my wiki page.

A Story Podcasting

Hi everyone!

I am going to mention about our podcasting project. This week our teacher gave us an assignment about podcasting and I worked with Eda in this project. We decided that make a story podcasting because making a funny story is something good for us but at the same it requires creative imagination. Because of working in pairs, we could collaborate with each other in creating a story. At first we wrote a transcription of the story and then recorded our voice. We had some difficulties on the podcasting process. For instance, we had to record our vioce but we did not have the silent and empty space so we had to make recording in class. Being empty and big, classes make echoing our voice. This was trouble for us. Moreover, creating funny story is also difficult. Making laugh someone is require a special ability. On the other hand, podcasting have some advantages for us. For example, when we recorded our voice we noticed that the words which were mispronounsed and then we tried to correct our pronunciation. So it is some kind of opportunity for correcting pronunciation. What is more, we had to write a kind of sketch in English. This is improve our imagination and use of the target language in different field. As a result, I will absolutely use podcasting with my own students in the future. So it is here;


Online recording software >>

Hello everyone!

The first thing I want to say is welcome to my blog! I am Ayşe from Marmara University, ELT Department and I am sophomore. In this year, I am taking Technology and Materials Design and I am going to share my tasks in this blog. That's it for now.

Wish you all the best :)