Güler's Educational Technologies Blog

 HELLO ALL! Welcome to the final post of the Educational Technology class I've been taking during this term. In this post, I will be talking about a lot such as how I find this course beneficial and how it helped to improve. First of all, I figured out that my vision about technology integration in language class before I started taking the course was pretty limited. I was considering that integration is about the teacher rather than the student and my views were shaped according to my belief that students could only partially contribute or benefit from it. After taking the course I figured out that technology integration is more about the STUDENTS rather than the teacher. The teacher can only guide the students, at most can show how to benefit from the technology but IT IS SIGNIFICANT for students to try and discover technology themselves and learn how to make use of it. The tasks that I completed during this course helped me to improve my talents in using technology and also gave

HELLO ALL! Today I will be presenting you the penultimate task of this blog, for this term of course! For this week's task, I am going to be talking about is DIGITAL STORYTELLING!!!! First of all, let me inform you a bit about digital storytelling. Digital storytelling is basically creating a short story with computer-based tools. Anyone can create digital stories with different aims. Digital stories can be created to tell a story, to raise awareness about an issue, to share opinions, or to show how to do something. It is much easier to create computer-based content with the help of some websites such as  animatron , which we used.  Animatron  enables you to create stories easily. It offers numerous different templates for you to create any type of animation. As the first step of our task, my friend Esma( you can visit her perfectly-designed website  by clicking here  ) and I had a discussion about what to do and decided on creating a children's story with a beautiful messag

infographicphoto Hello All! Today I'm going to share this week's task with you. Which is creating an infographic. First of all, what is an infographic?  An infographic is a collection of imagery, charts, and short texts that enables readers to understand a topic in the most basic way. Secondly, it makes you look cool! And if you are saying that you are already cool, it makes you even cooler.  Let's talk about the process. To begin with, creating an infographic is an easy task. There are lots of websites or edit apps that enable you to create infographics. You can use templates in these websites, which is much easier. You just need to fill in the information you want to share in a graphic template you choose.  I consider using it in class because it enables students to understand the topic easier as it is visual. It makes the topic easier to remember. I would like to make my students create an infographic, as well. They can create infographics for their presentations or when