A Final Review

Hello friends,

In my last (hopefully) semester of my university life I had the chance to take Instructional Technologies and Material Design Course from one of our great lecturers Gökçe Kurt who guided us through this journey to become a 21st century teacher.

During this semester, we have learned about a lot of new tools, websites and technological materials that can help us become a more efficient teacher whose lessons are affective and enjoyable. We learned about tools like Canva, Wikis and Blogs to make our lessons are up-to-date and interesting for 21st century kids who grew up with smart devices.

We not only learned about tools etc. but we also learned to find our own tools and create unique materials. When I go and look back at the things I have created for this course I feel proud of myself: the funny friendship video we created with my BBF Liz; and the poster I made about for a town in a video game give me such joy.

As teachers of tomorrow we have a big role in raising future generations and if we continue using archaic methods, which have been proven fruitless time after time, we will fail at it. In the age of technology, we should use technology for more things than social media. Technology gives us so many possibilities - not using it would a big mistake.

Talking about these stuff made me think of a song from an animation movie called "Lorax" that gives me such hope and I believe it’s never too late for a change. I believe in my country’s future generation and I believe as teachers we should take more responsibility for a better future.

The song I mentioned is below,



Until the next time!🐼

A RSS FeedReader Review

What is an RSS?

RSS is a type of web feed which allows users and applications to access updates to online content in a standardized, computer-readable format. RSS feeds can help you follow the latest content from your favorite blog or the latest episodes of podcasts. 

What is an RSSFeedReader?

An RSSFEEDREADER is software that helps you collect all the blogs etc. you follow together to make it easier for you to follow them.

Which one do you use?

I use a website called Feedly, which has free and paid options. the reason I love Feedly is their modern user interface, the website is easy and intuitive to use. Here is an example of the main page:

As you can see from the screenshot above I follow some ELT blogs to enhance my teaching, also our professor wants us to, my favorite one of these blogs is called ELT Planning which is a blog by an English teacher named Pete Clements who also has some books. I really enjoy the posts on his blog, they give me great ideas that I can use when I become a teacher myself. Here is snippet from his blog.

Until the next time!🐼

A Magazine Cover

Hello Friends,

This week for our Instructional Tech and Mat Design Course we were assigned to create a movie poster or a magazine cover. I chose to create a magazine cover simply because I thought it was more interesting. 

I created a magazine called "Brindleton Bay Times", as the name suggests this is a local magazine but not just any local magazine, it is for a fictional town in the video game "The Sims 4". I am a big fan of this game and particularly I love playing in this town. The town of Brindleton Bay is a coastal town where fishing is their main source of income, also they adore our furry friends, they even have a statue dedicated to cats and dogs :). 

When I start teaching, I'd love to give such assignment to my own students because I believe this is a nice way to get to be creative and also I had so much fun creating my magazine cover. To create my cover I used the website postermywall. Here is the cover I made:

Until the Next Time!🐼

A Friendship Story

Hello Friends,

This week we were assigned to do a digital story where we utilized technology to create a story. There were three options and with my BFF Liz we picked the friendship story. Since we are such good friends we wanted to tell everyone how our relationship evolved and how we became best friends.

While creating this video we picked some of our best moments to show you. Since we met we had both good and bad times together but no matter what happens we always stick together. We used Windows Movie Maker to create this video, it a bit old and not so up-to-date tool but for our purposes it did the job, we picked "Stand by me" as the background music because it is a song we both love very much and it is a song that captures our friendship really nicely. 

You can watch our video below. 

Until the next time!🐼