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. 

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 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? 

 

 

I told you before that I don't like saying goodbye and that we will meet again. So hello to all of you again!!!

I'm continuing this exciting and educational adventure from where I left off. We'll be together on this platform for the first time, but I'm not new here ;))  After the 'Current Issues' course I took last semester, I will use my blog for the 'Instructional Technologies and Material Design in English Language' course this semester. I will prepare the technology topics that we will cover in our course in practice from my blog and share them on my blog. In this way, I will both reinforce the information I learned in a practical way and I will share with you what I learned and how I followed. Let's embark on this new adventure together! That's all I have to say for now, take care of yourselves, we will see each other soon!

OpenAI. (2025). A welcoming blog post image with a clean, modern design [AI-generated image]. ChatGPT.

I hate goodbyes so I'll say let's take a break. I left behind a very busy period with a lot of homework, and that's why I'm very relieved. I've been really stressed lately. But still, the homework I enjoyed doing the most was definitely my blog posts. In general, I am very pleased with the current issues course. Let's continue with the details

Current issues course was above my expectations. It was a course that I thought would be difficult, but on the contrary, it was very enjoyable, creative and developmental. If I had to mention the difficulties of the course, one of them was the short assignment deadlines. It was a busy year, we did a lot of homework from many courses. Another difficulty was that it was in a group format. It is difficult to find multi-person groups and distribute tasks. 

The weakness of the course is that we cannot get full feedback. This situation occurred due to time constraints, and the lecturer tried to pay attention to this situation, but it was not enough for me in some assignments. Another weakness was that we did not have the opportunity to re-edit the assignment after feedback. 

I think that if these negativities are improved, the full benefit will be obtained from the course. My advice to students who will take this course is to get along with their groups, divide the work well, and get ideas from the blogs of upperclassmen.

The contributions of the course to me are: I have no interest in technology. Thanks to this course, I broke my prejudice against technology. I have personally seen the benefits of technology and will definitely use it in my classes in the future.

That's all from me. We'll see you again next term. Until then, take care xoxo.

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 Ahoj!!! Today we are in the last post where I will share homework with you. Since it was our exam week, we could only do the homework on the last day, so it was the fastest homework we did LOL. Let's take a look at this quick assignment!

Our final assignment is about the use of AI and its integration into teaching. For this assignment, I collaborated with only Dilara.We experienced unpleasant things with our previous group and we thought it would be better for us to leave the group. 

Our topic is 'Describe your dream life by using future tense' in short then upload this description to the AI ​​tool and command it to create an image.. The reason we chose this topic was that it was trending on social media and we heard that everyone who tried it was very surprised and even touched. That's why we thought it would attract the attention of students since it is a current and trending topic. 

Our expectation from the students is that they first explain the visual prepared with AI using the future tense as an example, and then write their own dream lives in paragraph form and upload them to the AI ​​tool. In the last step, we expect students to give feedback to the AI ​​tool we use. We chose chatgpt, which is very common, as the AI ​​tool. 

Creating this project was a good simulation of our future teaching. It was an excellent opportunity to see how we can apply AI effectively in our classrooms.

You can access the material and lesson plan we have prepared here.

Bis später, alles Gute!!!

                                                                                

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 Hello again! We are together for a new activity and yes it is late again…  My exam week is very close and I am nervous because of this but it relaxes me to enter my blog and share something with you. I really liked using blogs and I would like to develop it just like a social media account. Now let's come to today's topic.

 Today I will present you our Argumented reality (AR) teaching material. In short, AR is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated 3D content. Our task was to prepare a teaching material with AR. For this material, we chose a city from abroad and introduced its museums, the symbol of the city, in short, introducing the city. The city we chose was Paris, which is the dream of many people and is known for its romanticism. I had been there twice before and it really has a fascinating atmosphere. That's why we wanted to introduce this place.

 We prepared this material with my group friends Hayrunnisa Azbay, Eda Karaca and Meryem Dilara Demirkaynak. Our material includes a short introduction of the Notre Dome Cathedral, the Louvre Museum, Paris Fashion Week and of course the Eiffel Tower, which is a must. We also prepared an ASSURE model. The aim of our material is to create an environment where students feel like they are there even though they are not there, and to achieve this, we added a QR code to each introduction. When they scan the codes, a magnificent experience awaits them where they can see 360 degrees. They can turn it in any direction they want and examine the place being introduced. We had no difficulty in preparing this material, on the contrary, we enjoyed it very much. 

 It was a very enjoyable project both in terms of its subject and in terms of finding supporting references. I hope you enjoy reviewing it as much as we did. We have come to the end of the journey (for now) of making lessons more interesting and enjoyable with AR. Good luck to all of you, final exams are very close!