Hello and goodbye post :(

 And we have come to the end of the semester. In this post, I will share my thoughts about the course we took for this semester. First of all, this was not my first technology course. I had taken the second version of this course last semester. I had not taken the first version last year. Therefore, I cannot fully express my opinion about the adaptation of technology to English language courses before this course, but I would like to share my opinion before these two courses.

 In today's age, technology has advanced a lot and we can see this in every aspect of our lives. Although it has negative aspects, I think its positive aspects are much more and we definitely need to benefit from it. It will also provide great benefits in the field of education, especially in language learning because foreign language learning needs an interactive learning and artificial intelligence provides this. So the combination of the two will make language learning easier and I definitely understood this much better in these courses. For example, artificial intelligence can give feedback to students, give ideas or show them how to learn more easily and simply. It can even make lessons more fun. I definitely understood this better, especially in the last activity we did. How can we use artificial intelligence to create a better classroom environment or what technological tool can we use and how AI can help students with feedback. This is completely up to our creativity and I think that we can get help from artificial intelligence in every field, in every way, in every subject. In general, the tasks given were fun, simple and enjoyable. 

What I learned in this course was that I learned a few ideas when I want to integrate technology into my English course in the future, for example, I can ask them to prepare a podcast or get feedback from artificial intelligence... Yes, I learned such things, but I don't think we need to do these because they were simple things we already do anyway. These can be given to us as ideas and we can implement them in the future, they can show us, but the teacher preferred to have us do it, but if he had told us or shown us, we could have learned more ideas. We didn't need to do these anyway, they were all simple things. I think these ideas should have been integrated into us and more ideas should have been given. Also, the last activity was not something I didn't like but something I didn't understand because how to do it was explained in a complicated way, it could have been explained more simply, for example, did I need to save them all in a file, did I need to record my conversation with the artificial intelligence? There were deficiencies such as, and it was too long. Other than that, it was enjoyable. My favorite activity was to prepare infographic. I learned how to do it and also prepared a beautiful information poster with the help of technology. Overall ı had great time in the course and doing the activities was simple and enjoyable.

Take care!

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 Hello my dear friends and teacher! Today we will talk about my experince video-chat with ChatGPT.

 I learned many good things in our conversation with the artificial intelligence and it was my first experience. It felt very nice to chat and I will definitely use this feature especially in social areas because I think it can be more useful in those areas. What benefited me for this task was that I learned that I needed to look from very different perspectives and realized that I needed to be more creative. I learned that we should not be limited by the possibilities we have and strive for more. The challenging parts for me was that when I directed questions to him, he made many different suggestions. It was a little difficult for him to make a statement that lasted almost 2 minutes and that's why I had a hard time remembering what he said at first. Also, it is a little difficult to adapt his suggestions to real life. Today's conditions are not very suitable for this and he is not aware of this. 

 In general, yes, the things he recommends are very good but difficult to implement and he makes very long explanations. I prefer to use chat with artificial intelligence in social areas. It gives the impression of chatting with someone and it is more enjoyable. But chatting on an academic subject can be a little challenging. I definitely see it as a useful tool in integrating artificial intelligence into education, in fact I would like to give you an example from this task. Our first task was chat, the second was an article about chat, and the third was to get feedback on the article about chat from the artificial intelligence, and in this task you will notice that the feedback from the artificial intelligence is very useful. 

 AI touches on every point meticulously and even gives examples of how we can improve, and I think we can use artificial intelligence in education in this way, I believe that we can get a lot of help from it by getting ideas, getting feedback and asking how we can improve it more. The benefits of artificial intelligence are endless and I believe that we can use artificial intelligence in every area of ​​our lives and it will benefit us in many areas. It has a very different creative and advanced perspective and we need to benefit from it in every area. 

You can see my document here.

goodbaye for now!

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This picture has been taken from Warner Bros. Pictures. (2010). Inception [Film afişi]. IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/

Hello everyone!! Today we are with you on our new topic, movie review. 

In this task, we had to watch a movie in groups of 3 and comment on it. Since we couldn't find a group of 3, we had to make 4 people. Then we decided to review the movie Inception. We had to write 4 paragraphs about the movie. Each paragraph had a category and we had to write according to it. We shared it among our group friends Şeyma, Aslı and Beyza. After the paragraphs, we added frames from the movie, the movie's trailer and our blog links and shared our docs file as commenters to another group for them to give feedback. Our friends who gave us feedback were Meryem Hilal, Meryem Sena and Yasemin. They also wrote a review of the Japanese animation film called Grave of the Fireflies. I really liked their narration style and it made me excited to watch it. I will add the screenshot of their comment below and the screenshot of the comments we wrote to them. You can also reach our docs page from this link.

The image on the left is our commentary on the movie Grave of the Fireflies. The one on the right is the other group's commentary on us.

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 Hello dear friend!!!

Today I will tell you about the How TO learn English words video that my friend Şeyma Güran and I prepared. First of all, I want to share why we chose this topic. Since the aim of our lesson is to teach with technology, we thought about how we can teach English to our students with the help of technology in the future. The most important element of learning English is knowing/memorizing words, so we shared vocabulary memorization/learning techniques in our video.

 Our video had to be shorter than 2 minutes, so we could only touch on 2 techniques. The first of these was sticking the word on the object that Şeyma introduced, and the other was the vocabulary box that I introduced. We explained how to use these techniques in the video. You can access our video from here. To answer the question of how we prepared the video, we first shot our own parts with our phones' cameras, then combined the video and uploaded it to YouTube. It was very easy and enjoyable to make, and it was also a useful video that we can share with our students in the future.

See you in the next assigment!

   Hello everyone again! How are you? I'm asking this specifically because we had a busy midterm week. If you're wondering about me, I'm doing my homework that I need to finish after a very busy week... Now that the "hi, how are you?" part is over, let me get to what I'm going to tell you.

This time our task was to prepare a podcast. I chose the individual topic of 'Improving the World'. What I had to do was: find an idea that would make the world a better place and prepare a 60-second podcast about it. The reason I chose this topic was because I had already thought about it. Among the solutions, I chose the one that was most suitable for our lesson: 'Separating waste with AI!

With the help of AI, a smart camera in the waste separation device will scan the waste and throw them into the correct waste bins. We will be able to use this device at school, at home, on the streets, and in workplaces. Thus, we will have a cleaner and greener world.

I got help from the varacoo website while preparing my podcast. You can access the podcast I made here. The website was very easy and convenient to use. The only thing I had trouble with while preparing was adjusting my speech. I got it done after a few repetitions, other than that it was very fun and easy to do. It was the most enjoyable homework assignment I have ever done. That's why I will make my students do this in the future. They will need to pay attention to both pronunciation and stresses, which will be a fun opportunity to improve their English. 

Infographic

 Hello everyone again!! Today I will talk to you about a homework assignment that I really enjoyed doing. If you are ready, turn up your brightness again and lean back.

Let me briefly tell you about my assignment; Infographic Creation Task: Ethical and Legal Issues in Technology Use. First of all, let's look at what infographic is together. An infographic is a visual representation of information, data, or knowledge designed to present complex information quickly and clearly. It combines text, images, and graphics to communicate a message or tell a story effectively. And I was required to create an informational infographic on ethical and legal issues related to effective technology use. My infographic topic is cyberbullying. The reason I chose this topic is that we are in the age of technology and most of us socialize in virtual environments and it is much easier to be bullied there. I prepared my homework with the help of PiktoChart. You can reach myassigment by clicking here.

 I think it is a very suitable tool for preparing infographics and I found the template suitable for my topic very easily. I tried other tools but they were not as easy to prepare as PiktoChart. In general, it was fun and easy to prepare, but since it was my first time using this tool, it took me a while to get used to it. In addition, when I wanted to add visuals to strengthen my assignment, most of them were paid, so I could not add the visuals I wanted, and I even had a hard time finding visuals that were suitable for the subject.

When it comes to questions such as how can we use infographics in education and what are their benefits, I think infographics attract students' attention and make them more memorable because they are mostly visual, use less text and are in a poster style. It will be very useful to use it especially in foreign language classes. Since it will attract students' attention and they will not get bored, their interest in the lesson and the language will increase.

Be careful while surfing the web and take care of yourself see you soon!!

OpenAI. (2025). An inspiring image representing 21st-century learning in the context of technology and language education [AI-generated image]. ChatGPT.

 Hello dear teacher and teacher candidates!

  Today's topic is 21st century learning. So what is 21st century learning? In short, it is the identification of many of our skills with technology. As you can appreciate, this combination is expected to have many benefits for language learning.

 With technology, we can easily access the resources we want, and we can develop all our other skills. speaking, listening, reading, writing... and we can personalize these areas as we wish. The conclusion I have reached from the courses I have taken and my own statements is that we should definitely use technology in many areas of education, as well as in the field of language education. 

Technology will make the courses more entertaining, provide active participation, and thus students will both learn the language and keep up with the times and learn technology. It is impossible to avoid technology today. At the same time, we should ABSOLUTELY improve both ourselves and our students by getting help from meaningless technology. 

We must take advantage of this endless benefit of technology, keep up with the times, and encourage our students to do so. These are my ideas about the 21st century, what about yours?