A Beginner's Guide to Educational Technologies

 I regret to say that this is a farewell post in which I can have the chance to express my experiences and ideas about the tasks I have gained during the whole term.  First of all, if we think about whether the course presents strengths or weaknesses, it will undoubtedly be a very appropriate decision to consider how important today's technology is in education. Therefore, it is inevitable for me to adopt the idea that this course plays an extremely important role in the integration of technology into course content. Moreover, The most important issue that I had difficulty with during the course is that most of the tools that I want to use in the process of fulfilling the tasks are paid, so they provide a limited area of use.  My favorite task was our flipped classroom assignment. Because if we consider that teachers teach in a limited time in the classroom, this method will save them time and they will have the chance to plan a more interactive lesson. My least favo...

Today, we will be focusing on a technology-enhanced research project for our final task. While creating our project, we worked together with Defne. Let's go over our experiences together to see its advantages and disadvantages if there are any. According to the instructions we are given by our lecturer, we utilized Progress, Preparatory Class sourcebook to decide on our topic for this project. We preferred using WebQuest among the two options presented. We were supposed to create four main sections: introduction, task, process, and evaluation. So, we worked on the topic of movies. Fort his reason, we emphasized movie genres and related vocabulary by providing general knowledge about what genre is followed by related vocabulary. Lastly, we provided our students with example conversations that they can benefit from both by expanding their knowledge and vocabulary. Thanks to the attached quizzes and games, they have a chance to reinforce their newly gained knowledge. That's all f...

 Hello to all of you! Let’s start with what augmented reality means to us. Augmented reality is a technology that allows users to see video, pictures, and 3D models and animations in a 3D environment based on real-world components. AR gives your devices new opportunities to aid you throughout your day by allowing you to interact with digital material in the same way you interact with the real world. It allows you to visually search for items by just pointing your camera at them.  We  can have accsess AR Through QR codes, Trigger images, Markerless AR apps and GPS location. Now that we have discussed what AR refers to, we can move on with how to utilize it in the field of teaching English. To be able to create an AR Integrated Teaching Material, we worked with Defne. The goal of employing AR in the classroom in ELT is to help students learn English more successfully. You can watch the related video to better understand it benefits:  It has several educational benefi...