Week 8- Project reports

Dear all,

We're about to finish the course and I feel terrible about the course's finishing. I wouldn't believe if someone had told me that I would be sad about a course's ending, but I feel so attached to the course and its requirements.

This week I chose my partner- Dear Rolanda- and we shared our plans and projects with each other. At first I thought it would be easy because I had my drafts and notes from my journal, but when it came to write it down I felt a bit confused. Then the plan template and the questions it it helped me organise my ideas in a meaningful way.

What's more, this week Idid a great activity on Padlet with my students and they enjoyed participating in it. Also I implemented my project activity on Thematic.co with my students and they did great presentations with the web tool. They filled out a survey about the web tool and the activity, and most of them agreed on the usefulness of the web page. 

This week was very hectic but great anyway.

Have better and happier weeks ;)

Aysun

Turkey

Week 7- A very fruitful week

This week I learned the essence of one computer classroom. We all tried out new ideas and posted some articles on Padlet about learner autonomy.
My bonus for this week was that I started implementing my project to my class. It was about the improvement of the speaking skill via web tools. The web tool I chose is a website: www.thematic.co
Unlike a power point presentation, you are not allowed to put a lot of writing on the photo slides-only one ortwo sentences. I believe that this will push the students to TALK.
We'll see the results in a week, and I'm so excited now;)

Aysun
Turkey

Week 6- Fostering speaking skills through web

Dear colleagues,

This week was very busy for me, because I was out of town for an exam duty. I'm also working as an oral examiner for  Cambridge University Exams. Finding time in such asycronised courses becomes more difficult if you are working at the same time like us ;) Thegood thing is: 'I am fully motivated in this online course- of course with the helps of my virtual classmates' supportive comments'

This week I started to implement my web tool- which is a website called www.thematic.co

At the beginning of the week, I explained the reasons and the expected results of the use of this site to my students. The first thing I did upon expaining them why was to show my example and do a model presentation by using the website. Then they immediately searched for the address of the website from their mobile devices and they asked about some details like the content of it.

The task I prepared for them is:
'Find pictures about one of the topic below and prepare a similar presentation on www.thematic.co and publish it on the web site. Then share the link on the page of our class on Edmodo. Here are the topics:

1. Favoutite music band, music genre or musician
2. Your hobbies
3. A person you admire
4. An important event for you
5. Your favourite animal
6. Your favourite city, country,food

Your presenations-likeI did in the class- will be next week.'

I'm looking forward to getting their links to see what they've done.

I want to add some more points about interactive power point presentations. I tried to do my best in this task and I enjoyed preparing it. Reading the comments of Chi and Donna made my day. Thank you so much

Week 5- Right in the middle!

This is the week of trying out new tools and I loved it ;) Here some of the things I tried:


1- A web quest with Zunal:

2- An online tool to create rubrics:

Bonus of the week was our guest tutor Thalia Hadzigiannoglou , and I need to admit that I loved her responses to the posts of my virtual classmates. I believe that sharing is caring and she showed great care for us ;)

This week I had the chance to share the things that I learned from this course with my edtech team members. They loved using the tools we reviewed and they immediately started making plans  for future applications.

Aysun

Turkey

Week 4- Reading&Writing Skills

Bringing out the creative sides of students is awesome and writing is a great tool to dig out this hidden part in our students. In the age of technology, it is no surprise to use web tools to enhance our students writing and also reading abilities through web skills.

This week, we read inspiring articles on the topic and shared some of our web tool applications within the group. As I mentioned before I love using technology-apps, web sites, QR codes etc-in my classes a lot. But when it comes to planing this process, seeing some examples was very informative and trying out a technology enhanced lesson plan was a meaningful experience. I, of course, prepare plans for my teaching but I have never embedded technology in my plans that much although I use it a lot.

                                         source: http://eggl.me/jigsaw-lesson-plan-on-angles/

But sometimes activities do not go as we plan in our lesson plan, then we do this ;)

Have a perfect week ;)