A Post to Say Goodbye

Hello, friends. This is my final post. It’s been really good to be here, but it’s time to say goodbye now.

As you know now, this blog was about my Instructional Material Design course. Now that the term is over, it’s time for me to write my very last post about the course.

In some of my posts, I said that I didn’t like writing, blogging and even sharing my thoughts with everyone. I still don’t like sharing my thoughts here, although I’ve been writing for a while now. But I must add that while writing some of the posts, I actually liked blogging. However, it is something I’m not planning to do in near future.

In my first post about the course, I stated how everything changes and that we need some new qualities as a teacher in 21^st century. I still think the same. However, when I first started taking this course, I didn’t think that I would be using technology that much. I don’t think the same. As doing the tasks, I liked using technology. I think I will be using technology more in the future than I used to.

First, I didn’t think the course was actually necessary. However, taking it, I understood it was a need for us to use it effectively. I do not think I could use it effectively before taking the course.

The only thing that I did not like about the course was that the tools were not given to us. For some of the tasks, it was easy to find the right tool. However, for some of them –like digital storytelling or podcasting, finding the suitable tool was really difficult. I think a few tools could have been suggested to us.

This is all I will write in my last post. Like I said, it’s been really good to be here. Goodbye.

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Infographic

Hello, everyone! For this week, we were supposed to create an infographic about our favorite web 2.0 tools. Below, you can see mine. I chose Voki, Kahoot!, Voscreen and Duolingo for the assignment since they are my favorites. You can see brief information about each.  

While creating it, I used Canva, again. It is my favorite tool for this kind of assignments since I think it is really, really easy to use.

Here is my infographic, I hope you like it!

Necla the Producer

Hello, friends! This week, I am a producer, as well as a thinker! Because our topic is to create an online poster. For this assignment, I worked with Şeyma, as usual. We created an online poster for one of her favorite books. To do it, we used Canva, which is a very easy tool, we didn’t have any difficulties while making our poster.

I had a good time doing this homework, and I think my future students would love such homework, as well. Also, I think it is beneficial for their creativity.

Here is our poster. We really liked it, I hope you like it, as well!

Friendship

Hello, everyone! This week, I am writing about digital storytelling. This one was a group assignment, and I worked with my lovely friend, Şeyma, to create a digital story of our friendship.

It was a pleasent procces, except for the part which we searched for a suitable tool for our work. That part was really difficult, because the tools we found were either not suitable for our work or too difficult to use. Finally, when we could find the perfect tool, we had lots of fun creating our digital story. But, in the end, we had another problem; because we used the trial version of the app, unfortunately, in the video, you wiil see watermarks on our faces, at least on some of the photos.

I will willingly give a similar task to my students, because with the right tool, this is a task that they can have fun while doing, and also, I think it will improve their grammar and pronunciation as well as their creativity.

So, if you like to see our video, and the watermark, you can click here.