StoryJumper - A Web Tool

Hello everyone!

Today I'm going to talk about StoryJumper, a web 2.0 tool. 2 weeks ago my friend Alper and I presented it for our material class.

Firstly Story Jumper is a web-publishing tool, a digital story telling that enables it users to create their own story books with images, texts, and most importantly with a narration. It's totally free.

Everyone can use it, it has simple and basic usage but I personally think that it has material mostly appropriate for  young learners but again if you add your own materials, you can make it suitable for older learners.

All you have to do is create a free account and then you can create your own story book! In your story book you can add a title and your name to cover page. Then you can add as many pages as you want. You can add props, scenes, speech bubbles to your story.

If you don't like the materials Story Jumper offers to you can find more of them by searching via its search engine or upload your own materials.

While you are working on your story, you can share it with your friends to get some help. After you have completed the story you can share it to public(on social media or any web site by copying embedded code), allow other users to see it or copy and improve it, Furthermore you can even print it ( by purchasing it), making a hard copy!

Among all different digital story telling tools, I selected this one as it enables you to add many visual material but most importantly it enables you to add narrations.

On the other hand my friend and I prepared a task. We tried to figure out how we could use this tool in educational way. We come up with a task for young learners. In the task students are supposed to create a story about their favorite pets. We gave them some instructions like; select 3 characters from your favorite pets, use at least 5 speech bubbles... And we gave the main structure of the story. They have to complete it according to their choices. You can see the other details the hand-out we gave.

We created a story to give an example of the task we created. We followed our instructions one by one and completed our story.

I recommend StoryJumper to all teachers who want to make their students more creative and make English learning more enjoyable!

Here you can find PowerPoint version of our presentation:

 Here you can see our task hand-out:

Here you can find our example story

Read this free book made on StoryJumper

Here you can access my friend Alper's blog

The picture above is taken from here.

Thank You,
Ahmet Enes

Suicide Squad - A Wiki Work

Hello everyone!

In this post I am going to tell you about my experiences about the Wiki. Firstly I want to explain what a wiki is then I will share my experiences. A wiki is a free online encyclopedia which Internet users can create and edit collaboratively.

This week, for Material class my friends and I were assigned to create a wiki page about a movie that won an academy award. Well as always I teamed up with my pair Alper Rahmanoğlu. We selected the movie Suicide Squad for our wiki project. In our assignment we were supposed to give some basic information about the movie we would choose, but apart from that we were also supposed to review the movie and give our comments about it. We started with adding a poster then we wrote actors, the director and added a synopsis. Finally we added our reviews, some gifs and a trailer.

I think wikis are useful as they are created and can be edited collaboratively. They are easy to create and as they are Internet based people all around the world can reach it and contribute it. I recommend you to use wikis.

These are the pictures from the wiki page we created.

You can visit and read the wiki page from here.

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

The picture above is taken from here.


Thank you.

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.