ELT-Ali Bilen

     In this post I am going to talk about educational technologies course that I took this semester. This course change my idea of technology use in education thoroughly. Thats because for my whole time as a student teachers used technology for only power point presentations. With this course I learned several ways to use technology during class and for assignments. Another pros about this course is that it prepares you for 21st century teaching.     My favorite task is prepreing a movie poster. I watch movies as a hobby, like I can watch 3 movies in a day just for fun. This task offered me an oppurtunity to create a movie that I want to see in cinemas. And the task that I liked least was the 21st century learning task. Because it was a little bit boring to me. I really had fun doing the other tasks though..     I enjoyed this course most of the time but I would enjoy it more if there were a few activities during class. There could be more fun things like games. Another issue was the

 For this week my friend Beyza and I prepared a "How To" project. Our video was different than other "How To" videos because we chose a rather abstract subject. We chose "depression during quarantine and ways to cope with it" as our subject. Since we are in the middle of an epidemic a lot of people cope with mental dısorders like depession. We can't go out and meet our friends or do something that erase the feeling of being depressed like we usually did. Because of that most of us do not know what to do. That is why we agreed on that subject, to help people. While doing the video we used Pixton and clipchamp. Pixton is a comic maker which is partly free. It was easy there to create a comic in terms of caracter, background and actions. Only con for that site is that it is not totally free that cause you to work with limited elements. But free elements on the site should be enough for most people. Clipchamp is the website that we used to turn our comic i

      This week we were asked to make an infografic concerning the online education in Turkey. In this infografic I gave some tips for online students to be more successful.        I used canva to make this infografic. Canva is a pretty useful online device and it can multitask.a It is also quite simple. It has draft examples that you can use or you can just start over. There are also instructions if you are new to make such things like poster or infografic.      I think it is useful for language learners to create infografics because it offers them to use target language to create something rather than just speaking or writing. I also think that it is fun informative. It doesn't wear you of at all. Those are so important for a task because it makes students actually like class.