21st Century Style Courses / Blogging - An Evaluation

Hi everybody!

Today in this post I am going to talk about all my experiences and reviews  about my material class and my blogging process. 

Well my first thoughts about keeping a blog was not positive to be honest. It is because of I always found myself non-creative and not a writer type. Actually I was right about it for a short time. I don't think I did explain my self in a natural way in the first posts but after a few posts I began to get used to it. Blogging became like talking to a friend more than just writing some words. So I can say I liked it.

About our course. Firstly before taking the class, I thought "Oh my god we are going to waste our time by preparing some posters,handouts,papers etc." But when our teacher introduced the lesson for the first time, I got this feeling " I am going to learn something useful, something related to technology."

We were introduced to how to use technology (some websites,applications,wikis,podcasts,web-tools,etc.) in English Language Teaching.We learned  to choose appropriate tool for appropriate tasks. We learned to become not only  21st century learners but also teachers.

Actually during blogging process, sometimes I had hard times to do somethings like adding video, embedding links, creating a proper post etc. Furthermore I had some difficulties while doing my task like recording my voice for podcast, creating a story and making appropriate edits for digital story telling task, but despite all these difficulties at the end of my studies, when I look the outcome, I felt amazing,happy, enjoyed. Because I really like the feeling of achieving something. During this course, I always felt these feelings.

Only if this course has a prequel or sequel course because I think there is no limitation in

technology, there are more and more tools,websites,applications etc. So if there was one more term for this course, It would be great.

I think I will be keeping a blog for other purposes like reviewing about movies,games and TV series. For this blog I will try to find and share useful materials and information about ELT.

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Thank you,

Ahmet Enes

The Kid with the Balloon- A Podcast Work

Hello everyone, I want to share my experiences about an assignment. For Material class I was supposed to create a podcast. There were 3 options but I will tell you about the option I selected. In that option my friend Alper Rahmanoğlu and I were supposed to create short sound-rich story podcast around 2 minutes.

The introduction of the story was determined by our teacher. There were some key words, we were supposed to use at least 4 of them. We wrote our story and found appropriate sound for the story. Then we decided who to speak which line. When all the planning was over. We started to record the story. In the recording process whenever we made a little mistake like some slips, mispronunciations we laughed and we started over and over again.I think we enjoyed it.

Making a podcast is very funny as we did some different accents to make the characters real and while doing it actually we felt it. We acted like actors. I think creating and using a podcast in a class would be very useful and enjoyable. I want to use podcasts in my class when I become a teacher. I would recommend you to use podcasts.

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

-You can listen our story bellow here.
Thank you.