Goodbye!

 

Hello everybody! As I said in my previous post, we come to an end of this course. This was a great but really challenging course. I tried so hard to create the tasks. I know, they were not perfect but I believe that they helped me a lot to improve myself. I learned many new information. I had never heard about many of the tasks before I took this course. Now, they all are a great option to use in my future classes. The only problem is finding proper tools to create our tasks. But technology is improving so quickly, and we must follow it.

    I want to thank my instructor for a lot for priceless techniques, ways, methods and materials. I will never forget them. 

I wish all of you health and happiness. 

Goodbye...

Webquest

 

    Hello everybody! I am here to introduce you our last task for Material Design in ELT course. The task is creating a webquest for our students. I want to explain first what webquest is. It is a tool to create technology integrated assignments for your students. You need to provide all of the necessary documents, tools and links in your webquest. There are 5 main part of a webquest: introduction, task, process, evaluation, and conclusion. The most detailed one is the process stage as you provide all of the steps, links, tools etc. There are also some benefits of webquest, which are supporting critical thinking skill through analyzing, creating and evaluating,integrating technology into learning, and developing collaborative learning.    

    In our task, my teammates were Hazal and Zeynep. We used a state school book which is for high school preparatory class students. There was a project named after "Create your sport magazine" at the end of unit 15. We change it as "Create your digital sport magazine". Students are supposed to be magazinist and applied for a job. They need to create a digital magazine to show their project. We used QuestGarden to create webquest. However, there is not a collaborative working option (at least we couldn't achieve). So, we created a Word document. Then, we copied and pasted them to QuestGarden. You can see our webquest by clicking here. 

Augmented Reality - Explore Rome!

 

    Hi everybody! Today, I am going to introduce you a wonderful material to use in your classes; AUGMENTED REALITY. Augmented reality (AR) is a link between real world and digital world. It is a recent technology and it is still being improved.So, you might have some problems while finding or using applications, however; there are some tools to use it. Finding a proper application was the most challenging part of this task, but this worth it! When you find an application, it is really simple and awesome. You will find pictures and videos or 3D pictures. Then, you need to match them each other. That is all! After that, enjoy watching and exploring something. 

    We created a task for our students to explore Rome with my friends Hazal and Zeynep. We used UniteAR and Canva to create our task. Students are going to use UniteAR to scan and to see the pictures or to watch the videos. Then, they are going to answer the questions. At the end of the task, they are going to write an e-mail to one of their friends who wants to visit Rome. They are going to make some recommendation about where to go, what to see, and what to eat. You can see our handout by clicking here.