BY DIGITAL STORYTELLING, MEET YOUR CREATIVITY 

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Hello everyone, This week was very fruitful because, we made digital story with my lovely friend Hüsna. Our teacher has presented us three options which are demonstration of how to process, telling a story about friendship and fictional story. I chose fictional story with my friend. 

Before mentioning how we made this digital story, I want to give information about digital storytelling and the program we used.

Digital storytelling is creating multimedia movies by combining photographs, videos, animation, sound, music, text and often a narrative voice.
In this project, we used Animaker which is a web page for online animation. It is really a useful program because we managed to do all parts of the story like choosing characters, background images, music and even voice recording.

how did we make our digital story?

 First of all, we started to this project by writing a story. We took into consideration the age of the audience. As it is a child story, we used basic vocabulary. Then, we found the program and learned how to use it. We created the scenes one by one, added the background sounds and the narrative voice. Then, we shared it on Youtube.

When it comes to the difficulties of this project, we had really hard time while using the program as it is a proffessional program and it requires some information. However, once we comprehended the 

program, we really enjoyed it.
Collaborative working enabled us to save time firstly as it was really a long project. Also, we came up with different ideas and it made this process easier.

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My thoughts about digital storytelling;

I think, the students will be eager to making storytelling, ıt will really attract their attention beacuse even ı am 20 years old, when ı heard the project, I was really excited. It means they will enjoy their time and we all know that it is very important in education.

They can make digital storytelling in pairs so this way, they will learn group working, sharing ideas, respect others thougts, saving time, collaborative learning...

Of course, there are many benefits and advantages of making digital story but ı think you should try and discover yourself :) This way, you can understand me influentally.

This is our digital story, ı hope you'll enjoy it, please make comment, thank you.

          FUNNY WAY OF LEARNING ENGLISH


Hi everyone,
Last week in my last post, I have talked about one my favorite blog for teaching english but in this post, I am going to evaluate a website for learning and teaching english.

When ı search for interactive, helpful websites for english, I find out ABCya and I really love it. In this website you learn and reinforce english by educational games. Games are planned for each grade from kindergarden to 5th grade and the grade level categories are broken down by content categories : letters, numbers, holidays, more (shapes, social studies,art...etc).

Why did ı choose this website?
 I am talking everytime especially in my country we use monotonuos strategies, classical styles and we know that profound effect of technology on lessons and students. These games really draw students attention and the peripheral learning happens because students without noticing not just vocabularies or grammar rules even math, basic skills are learned thanks to games like identifying colors, patterns, adding, subtracting, reading, and spelling...etc. 

I do believe all target grade level would want to use this website since it allows them to play with other students. This is the other effective feature of this website , it enhances interaction of students.

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•  It’s not only computer base website, they are apps available on the iPad.
• ABCya is a new website created in 2012 that has accurate and up-to-date information.
• ABCya does not have any violence or combat games. Most games are animals and sports related.
• The teacher can control the level that the user is playing.
• There are games that allow the user to select the gender of the player as well as skin color. It also has games that focuses on the different holidays like Christmas and Hanukkah. 
• Students are given constant feedback while playing games which fosters understanding of concepts.
• Games were created or approved by certified school teachers. 

 

                             

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I really recommend this website because 

 this website is  very helpful. I loved the different category options. As well as the different levels for each grade group and ı believe all students love the learning english by this way.

An example of one of the games, story maker.

RSS: Really Simple Syndication

This week, I will introduce effective tool RSS, what it is, its benefits and a blog which is my favorite one for teaching english.

http://rss-tutorial.com/rss-blog-feed-promote.htm

RSS is a format delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS  to whoever wants it. I use FeedReader but there are also different RSS readers. RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. 

you can get much more information about RSS by watching this video.


I want to talk about one blog which is Larissa's Language Studio. this is my favorite one because ı always criticize the monotonous lessons, classic style. This teacher uses various household stuff for teaching english such as drinking strawing when teaching grammar(countable/uncountable) or she uses ice cream sticks for exam of the tenses. as a teacher, We can make our lessons more attractive,funny,comprehensible. We should always search,find new methods,tools for our students.

 If you have any idea or blog you love by making comment you can share it. Thanks for reading, have a nice week..

WIKISPACE: A FILM REVIEW

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Hello everyone!

This week I will share our wiki task which is about writing a film review for a school magazine. I worked with my lovely friend Hüsna UZUN. We introduce the film ‘Leon: The Professional’ and recommendations on it on a wiki page which is made by our lecturer.

During the writing part, we faced some difficulties such as finding an appropriate film and collecting documents and data.We experienced many advantages of working in pairs. we interacted with each other by receiving the opinions and ideas from each other.

Wikispaces is an open classroom management platform where teacher and students can communicate and collaborate. This wikis support the diverse need of the classroom, from project based learning, and event planning, to parent communication, and more.

Thanks to this project we watched an impressive movie. By clicking this link , you can read the review and discover the wikispace. Enjoy it!  

                                                What a Dream!

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I made up this story with Hüsna Uzun.

We created a sound rich story and narrated it together. This task is suitable for young learners as the vocabulary we used  is beginner level.

We actually had some difficulties as well. Firstly, you have to be creative when you are doing such a task. And you should take into consideration the level of students. Also, it may not be that easy to find the sound effects which is appropriate for the story. However, we enjoyed so much when we are making up this story and it probably attracts the students' attention. They can understand the importance of assuming a role. So, we recommend the teachers to try this experience because the teachers should apply different styles for teaching instead of classical styles.

Welcome!

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Hi, everyone

Welcome to my blog! I am so excited for sharing my ideas, experiences about  teaching and learning english. I will post about  teaching and learning english methods, tips. By learning effective way of teaching and learning, we will  make it more fun and easy. If you want to see and learn these, let's take a long journey! 


I am still student so, your comments, experiences are very precious for me. Looking forward your comments! 

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