Lingualeo - A Mobile Learning App

Hello everyone!

Today I am going to introduce you a mobile learning app. I selected English with Lingualeo. It is an interactive application aims to teach English.

Firstly when you enter the app, you have to log-in  with an account. After you log-in, It ask some personal questions about yourself like: your age, sex, how often you want to study, how do you feel about your skills in English and your interests.

After you have done giving personal information then your grammar skills are tested trough a quiz. This test is done so as to the application can determine you grammar level, your strengths and weaknesses. Later the application ask you What is your aim to learn English ? You have plenty options I can say like for an special exam ( e.g TOEFL), for business, for myself, for improve my skills or for my English level.

After you have selected your aim, you have a lot of activities,options and sections to achieve it. In My Profile section you can see and follow your progress. In Materials section you can find a lot of videos about different topics. In Grammar Courses  section you can find grammar topics, in this section you can read the courses then you will be tested if you have understood the topic. In Words and Phrases section you can find lots of words and phrases divided into sub-groups. In this section you can select the words or phrases you don't know to add your dictionary.

Lastly there is  Exercises and My Dictionary section. In Exercises section you can work with word and their meanings while in My Dictionary section you can follow which words or phrases you are to learn or you have learned and you can listen pronunciation of any word you want.

Well as a conclusion I can say I found this application very useful. It is both for children and adults.You can find a lot of material in it. As it is a mobile app, you can take it anywhere you want and you can continue your learning anytime you want. This is what mobile learning means so I like mobile learning ! The only negative thing I found about this app is that there are more contents but only if you are premium user. So if you want more contents you have to pay for it but anyway I think free contents should do good enough.

Here is the link for the application you can look and download it from here.

All pictures above are taken by me while using the application.

Thanks,
Ahmet Enes

What It Means To Be Good Friends? - A Digital Story

Hello everybody!

In this post I am going to tell you about my experiences about digital story. For my assignment I was supposed to find a pair and create a digital story. There were 3 options. As always I team up with one of my best friends, Alper Rahmanoğlu. We selected option 1, creating a digital story about what it means to be good friends?

                                                                                                                         
Firstly we gathered our photos and created our avatars by using Bitmoji. Alper created amazing bitmoji pictures about us. Then we put them in a PowerPoint slide. We briefly introduced ourselves and narrated how did we met. We gave some animations to our photos and we added a music to our story. We gave a message about what it really means to be good friends.

While creating our digital story, we used Bitmoji, Movie Maker, PowerPoint, Audacity, Icecream Screen Saver programs for many purposes to enrich our story. I think we had a great time while creating the story like during recording process or when we look our photos and remembered the past, what we have shared.

I think creating a digital story would contribute foreign language development as when students try to create one, they have to write a story and narrate it. So they will realize their skills when they reflect their work.

You can visit my friend Alper's blog from here.

The picture above is take from here.

Here is the video of our digital story:

Thanks,
Ahmet Enes

21st Century Learning

In 21st century a lot of things have changed. Some terms like world languages, creative thinking, Internet and media have entered our lives. I think as these terms are already in our lives we should utilize them in education as well.

Technology in 21st century helps teachers to create more enjoyable classes as they can add visual contents, attractive videos,podcasts etc.. As it is less time consuming, it helps both students and teachers to create the content they want in easy ways.

Lessons in 21st century are more student-centered. Students are more creative, productive and enterprising. Teachers have become counselors more than tutors. As almost everyone has smartphones, tablets or computers, teachers and students can easily access information, assignments news etc... Everything is just one click away.

To sum up for me  learning in 21st century, is an on-going process that can be done in anywhere, at anytime and by anyway. Here in bellow you can find my world cloud about 21st Century Learning.