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 Hello everyone! Today, I will write my experiences about AI material design and creation process. Creating AI materials for high school prep students with a "Heroes and Heroines" theme was a fun and collaborative task. It was an engaging task, and working with my friend Nisanur Baş was very entertaining. To create visually appealing visuals, we used the Microsoft Bing image generator. Finding templates that are visually appealing was fascinating. Canva was a user-friendly platform that made it easy to combine text and images. While creating the content, careful effort was given to how to interest and involve young people in the idea of heroes, making the process both artistic and creative. Here's our AI material

 Hello, everyone! Today I will write about my AR / VR based material design task. I believe, using AR and VR technology in classes is quite important and beneficial. Especially in today's world, everybody is so connected with technology. AR and VR are two of these technologies that everyone, especially students, use often. That's why, we should use these technologies in our language classrooms in order to get the best of it.  The task was simply a creation of a classroom material. However, the purpose was to combine technology with language teaching. So, my pair Nisanur Baş  and I made AR / VR based material. We thought it would be hard to complete the task, however, it went very well. It was really easy to do and the tool we found was very helpful during the process. We used sketchfab as 3D viewer. It has everything we need for the material. Thus, it was a nice and educative task to complete. Take Care! Here's the material

Hello, everyone! In this blog post, I will talk about a new experience of mine: Creating a grammar teaching video for a flipped EFL classroom. Flipped EFL classroom approach is basically a reverse of inside and outside classroom activities. Students are responsible for other curricular such as watching videos, visiting course-related websites, listening to audios, reading related references, and so on. It is a beneficial approach when applied correctly because it has so many advantages. For example: Students get the first material on their own, at home. This allows students to become familiar to the process of self-study and to learn at their own speed. Also, Flipped classrooms provide up more time for interactive learning, research, experimentation, and practical application.  However, even though it has pros, it also has disadvantages. In order to apply this approach to an EFL classroom, students must have an access to technology and internet. Also, classrooms have to be availabl...

Corpus - Based Material Design Task Hi, everyone! In this blog post, I will talk about corpus-based materials and tell you about  my experiences and thoughts about the task. Corpus - based materials offer a more real portrayal of language usage. Because traditional materials often lack authenticity, corpora are critical for reducing the gap between academic knowledge and actual application. Exposure to real-world language usage not only improves the learning environment, but it also helps to build linguistic intuition. The benefits of corpus-based resources go beyond creating a better understanding of language structures, usages, and contexts. Learners benefit from authentic examples because they get insights into collocations, word patterns, and idiomatic expressions. This exposure encourages a more natural understanding of language details, which contributes to improved communication competence. Furthermore, corpus-based tasks allow teachers to personalize learning experiences to...

 Hi,everyone! Today I will talk about my movie poster task. My task was to create a movie poster or a magazine cover. I chose movie poster because I'm really fond of movies and I find it more interesting. The movie should be based on a book that I read so I decided to do ''Heartless'' by Marissa Meyer. I read it nearly 5 years ago and I totally loved it! The author was inspired by Lewis Carol's novel Alice In Wonderland which is my favorite movie. So, it made me more motivated to do the task. First, I chose my movie that based on my favorite book, then I decided to use Canva as a tool. I have been using Canva since I was in high school and I find it very useful. It has so many options, it contains incredibly creative stuff and it is so easy to use. After the first step, I selected my drawing to use as a poster cover. I chose an image from Pinterest because I think my book is more suitable and nice for an animation movie.  As a final, I edited the poster by addi...

   Hi,everyone! Today, I will write about my Education Technologies class experiences. I would like to start by saying that I never thought this lesson would be that much entertaining and instructive. After learning and experiencing Education Technologies, my knowledge about technology use in class has improved so much. For example, in class, we discussed so much about technology and learned so many tools and web sites. We tried to figure out how to make the tools work. We struggle from time to time but our teacher was always there to help. In the times that we were not in class, me and my friends collaborated and teached each other. This collaboration is one of the things that Education Technology class has gained me.  As for the tools I learned in class, they were all fun to use. I learned how to create my own blog and personalize it. I learned and used wiki, me and my friend Can wrote a movie review together. Even though I did not like wiki, writing a movie review with...