My Weekly Reflections

 In this week's lesson, our topic was machinima in language learning and teaching. Before the lesson started, we were briefed on what we had done in the past 11 weeks. I think this is very useful in terms of reminding us of previous weeks and reinforcing what we have learned. A word formed from Machinima machine+cinema. Machine part includes videos, games, computer; The cinema part covers the subject, characters, etc. contains. As a teacher, you may not always have time to prepare something for your students, but the materials that are ready sometimes may not suit our wishes, so as a teacher you must be creative and developer.As Machinima samples, we watched the clips prepared by the students of our lecturer 5 years ago. Although they were a little old visually, they were actually quite suitable videos. First we watched the video called The Ring, the topic of the video was an unusual situation and there was also a lesson plan for teachers to use. Then we watched the video called Re...

 First of all, we started this week by learning the differences between games, game-based learning and gamification. Games have existed since human history, so it's human nature. On the other hand, in game-based learning, you teach what you are going to teach through games, that is, the thing that guides you is games, on the contrary, in Gamification, what guides you is your subjects, your needs, the game is just a part of your teaching method. For example, some schools teach children something with a minecraft game for game-based learning. I think this is suitable for younger children who are learning more basic and simple things, but at the same time, it is better to learn something by designing it in the game rather than learning by writing and working. I think gamification is more advantageous because it is more logical, cheaper and easier to do. Then we looked at the elements of game design. While game mechanics is the game's own features, levels, like challenge, and game ...

 First of all, we talked about presentation systems and platforms. Now, using such sites instead of boring powerpoint presentations is a very good step to improve and transform our presentation. We reviewed Nearpad, Mentimeter, Hypersay. Frankly, Nearpad has so many options that it catches your eye, among others: images, audio, video, multiple choice questions and collabration page. The best part is that you can add activities instantly and it is the VR option because you can easily visualize what you want to tell in the minds of the students by using the VR option, and you can derive a lot of activities. The downside is that there is no QR code, but I don't think that's a big problem either.As for Mentimeter, there is a QR code, a Q and A session, a word clouds option, as a disadvantage you are limited to choosing 3 for each activity.We can think of HyperSay as an alternative to zoom and teams with features such as slide sharing, live quizzes, chat, video screaming. You can al...

 This week, we talked and reviewed websites that improve speaking skills, such as video podcasts and podcasts. You can reach podcasts on Spotify, youtube, and google podcasts, but google podcast is the only free one among them and it also has an excellent library, which shows that it is more advantageous than others. First, in Castos, students can create their own video podcasts. Afterward, we reviewed Voki, and the best part of this app is that it helps shy students wear a social mask and create their podcasts that way, in addition to that you can add your own voice. It's a good site where you can give assignments to your students. Then we looked at Powtoon and Vyond. You can create your digital character in Powtoon, the characters can talk among themselves, and you can also make a marketing video or presentation. In addition, it has features such as adding audio, storing and sharing videos. In Vyond, you can design your video, and you can also choose the action your cha...

 I am very excited that a course that I said at the beginning, what will it do for us, teaches me so much. As someone who doesn't really know how to use technology, I learn very good applications and sites with each passing lesson. We first looked at Googledocx, Padlet, Dropbox paper. I used the padlet in my first year of university and I was very satisfied. It is very nice for everyone to share their ideas on the page in small note papers.We can all write something to Googledocx at the same time. It comes in handy in an interactive application for the classroom, such as creating a story, as we tried in the lesson. Also, I learned the Slack site and slack mother of way an emailing. We talked about many applications used to take notes, in fact, the fact that many people in the class are using them and I didn't know, which made me a little sad. We talked about applications such as Evernote, Onenote, Notion and watched a video about notion, but everyone should use Onenote. At the...

     First of all, we made an evaluation about our lessons in the last weeks, we talked about what we were working on. Then we started to examine some applications. Firstly, I did not know the rapid translater that Gökhan teacher showed and I saw that it was very useful because we learn most of the information through Wikipedia, so it is very useful to translate words quickly. One of my friends suggested the application called PONS, and I was using only tureng as a dictionary until now, and I still use it. Then we started to examine the applications that we can use as libraries. It is obvious that these applications will be useful for us when we become teachers in the future, and this has exactly increased my interest in the course. We reviewed six e-libraries: Global digital library, Storyweaver, scholastic, Raz-Kids, Commenlit, Readworks.org. It is very useful to have features such as being able to download books and listening to audio in all of them. The...