ELT-Ali Bilen

      The task that I did today was creating a timeline. It might not sound ineresting maybe even boring but ı had a good time making it. Thanks to a website called Visme. It made the task enjoyable but one downside of this web site which is a really bad downside is that it does not allow you to download the final draft. You need to pay to download. I did not pay but I took a screen shot of it but if you need movement in whatever material you are making it is not eligible for the task.      This task helps us to understand the improvement of the using the computer in language teaching and learning. The link for Visme:       https://www.visme.co/ The final product:

       Language education, like everything else, has changed with the invention of the computer. There are several approaches to usage of computer in education and some of the earliest of them are CAI(computer-aided instruction) which put emphasis om both the machine and the learners and PLATO(Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations) created in 1960s which allows learners to have multiple choice test and activities that gets harder step by step.      Teachers started to use computers more commonly with the invention of microcomputers in 1980s. A lot of programs were real-life simulations and authentic. Learners are given options to choose what to say in situatons like buying groceries and they cannot get them unless they answer correctly.     ARPANET( advanced research projects agency network) cooperated with some research universities. At first they started with the text-based MUDs(multi-user dungeons, based on Adventure and Dungeons and Dragons) because of the lack of cont