REFLECTIONS...
The Beginning of CALL course
I have many expectations from the call course. The first one is the computer network is useful for many people especially in this century. The second one is we will improve our writing skills via this course. The third idea for me is I will have very useful equipments when I will be an English teacher.
In this century every people are interested in computer .because they love to be fast for having everything. social media is a factor to that. every business wants to have computer talented employee, cafe’s are doing their commercial from social media,humans find their friends from facebook, children do their homework from edmodo, writers write their opinions from twitter.even a house woman is using a computer for having a cook ingredient. so, we just don’t give up and get rid of the computer. it must be our center in life.
We are university students. some of us want to stay in colleges because of they want to be an academic member. so we must develop our abilities such as writing, speaking and etc. we can succes to improve this abilities by wordpress, pbworks, drive.google . so many people can see what we write and comment on our blogs whether we write right or not. so we can achieve our desires.
Most of us will be an English teacher.With the approval of the draft law we should have a good knowledge about computer assisted language teaching. those of us who want to work in a private school should develop their curriculum vitae from writing language teaching promrammes which are known well.In this way it is easier to find a job. The call course can be our rescuer.
Second week’s reflection
We learned very useful thing this week. when i will be a teacher i want to carry out them in my course every parts of this lesson.
Firstly,I think rss is very useful for us to follow what we want to follow in network. For example, in wordpress I can see every posts which my students published. Or i could follow a bookstore english books which I interested in are in sale and etc.
Secondly, feedly, blogger, and wordpress are well-equipped sites for teachers. A teacher can follow latest teaching techniques from these blogsites, can give a homework to her/his students and follow their profiles in the internet. As far as I know the android version of these blog sites can be found in the Google Play Store. So the teacher can follow his/her students on the phone.
Thirdly, twitter is a trend for social media. We can say that it is a heart of network. Many people share their thoughts via this website. For some people, it is a news portal which they read newspapers tweets. But for an English teacher it is a fountain of knowledge which some knowledgeable people share their ideas of ELT department.
A reflection of week 3
Wiki’s are including almost every part of our life. history, science, astrology and etc.many informations are in them. “Pbworks” is important for that part because we can share every important thinks.and also google documents is important for us.
As an English teacher I can do many thinks for my students to instruct them in pb works. Even I can have many accounts ready to sign in their shoes. When i publish something important for their exams.even the videos that i insert from youtube they can see them in online way.
For google documents, I can say that it is important for presentations that I will prepare. both my students and I can be online in the same presentation document.Thanks to google documents i can do correction in that moment they are wrong.When I am not online the students can correct their friends wrong thinks.
finally i can add that programs to my schedule for my future.
Week 4: QR Codes and Socrative
We learned QR codes and the website Socrative. Both of them are useful for the teachers. Qr codes are router of any link. Socrative is also a router of preparing quizzes and exams for open-ended or multiple choices.
QR codes can be used every part of our paper. İf we want our students to go the website with their smartphones we can put the Qr code on to their worksheet, they can access the website with the help of their smartphones camera. They don’t sweat to write the URL and go to the website.Even if we want them to do the quiz in any website we want they can access the website easily.
Socrative is also very useful for teachers and the students. Socrative is used in online environment too. İf the teacher wants her/his students to go that website and do the quiz which the teacher want he/she can give the url and the students can easily solve the quiz in network. And also the teacher can check the answers too. The students can see the answer key.
REFLECTİON of WEEK 5
Online groups are important for us. Especially for english teachers, they share every ideas of their lesson. Many groups are available in the internet. Examply; google groups and yahoo groups are useful for english teacher. Besides, the links that we dont want to forget can be stored in delicious.com. And the folders that we want to hide and see wherever we want, dropbox is best think that I’ve ever seen.
Firstly, google groups and yahoo groups are used for many people, but I want to mention about for teachers side. google groups. Google is used more than yahoo.As the elt teachers, we can share our lesson plans, activities, games and the news abult elt department.To be honest I don’t use both of them facebook seems more good than both.
Secondly, delicious.com is used for hiding links. we can also write down the link’s topic. I started to use that website thanks to Sedat Akayoğlu.
Thirdly, I have had dropbox for 2 years in my smartphone. But I don’t know the function of that app. Then in the course showed us the functions of it. After than i started to add my important folders to dropbox. so, wherever I go, I can see my folders in any PC.But İt has a little problem. its memory is limited. so I can’t store all my folders. But if I like orr share dropbox in Facebook, dropbox give me memory for gift.
It can be good to say that we learn so many useful think. Fortunayely I take CALL course.
WEEK 6: Creating Quizzes With Hot Potatoes
Hot potatoes is a software which I have firstly seen in CALL course. As the English teachers we can prepare our quizzes with hot potatoes.I think it has many advantages for a teacher. especially for saving time it is so useful to prepare an exam or quiz quickly.It has many quiz types such as;jcloze,jmix,jcross,jmatch,jquiz..Also, we can save as a word format or web format.
With j cloze we can prepare a cloze test. with jmix we can test our students test ability. Jcross is for preparing puzzles. Jmatch is for matching the definitioon and the topic. J quiz is useful for preparing multiple choice test, short answer or multi select questions.
But it has disadvantages too. For example, at first times it is hard to get accustomed to hot potatoes. saving techniques can be hard sometimes. or the website in masher should refer true kind of the any quiz. I barely was able to finish in 4 hours in every quiz type.
Even I said the disadvantages, i will use hot potatoes for saving time.
WEEK 7:Creating an online classroom using,Online Conference Tools
Today I will explain you Creating an online classroom using and Online Conference Tools. These are much more used in when we are in the different places or cities or countries. Wherever we are we can connect each other (teachers- teachers, students-teachers,students-students.) they are so useful for our communication skills.
The first one is nicenet, dokeos and edmodo.These are used for online lessons. And also if we don’t have much time to some lessons in classroom, we can upload the tasks and then students have to do the tasks untill the date which we choose. In nicenet also the students can upload their folders, share with their friends and also their friends can correct the incorrect datas.
The second one is online conference tools. These are wiziq and google hangouts. with these items we can do conferences With the english teachers in all around the world. We can communicate each other. Also it is useful for us.
WEEK 8:Computer Mediated Communication ,Designing Online Presentations Using Prezi
Today I mention about Computer Mediated Communication and Designing Online Presentations Using Prezi. everyone use social media to communicate with the people. But If you don’t know the teaching way of the social media, this post is for you. And if you want to do a presantation in network you can read this post too.
Computer mediated communication tools are Yahoo Messenger,Google Talk,Skype,Facebook,Viber. these items can be used with the students, we can give homeworks via these items and in the lesson we can check it. with google talk, scype, facebook and viber we as teachers can check our students’ speaking ability.
If we want to design online presentations prezi is available for us. we can do presentations in internet we can prepare our CV on wordpress, also we can present it in our school. Belive me it is more funny than powerpoint. But a little problem is if network is slow we can not connect wordpress. if you have this problem please don’t even start .
WEEK:9 Digital Storytelling
Today I will tell about digital storytelling. If your students are newly started learning English, this post is written for you to read.
For digital storytelling mant website is available for you. but today I want to explain storyjumper. Story jumper is a website which stories, vocabulary items, animations, can be prepared for your students. Via storytelling, you can make your students fun and also learn language in a visual way.
With storyjumper, you can use many characters in the website. An also if you don’t have the character you want to add you can find it in google images and add it into your story. Moreover, you can add the places, accessories, dresses, facial expressions.
If you want to bring this book to school you can print which page you want via free way. But if you want it in a book format with a little budget you can have this book in a couple of days. The truth is i liked it so much and I will use it for my students. I belive that the lessons will be more funny with storyjumper.
WEEK:10 Podcasts
Podcasts are not used so much in our country . But İ think that it can be used in a few years. Today I will tell about audioboo o podcasts. Audioboo is used for just the voice records.
Voice records are important of our life. sometimes we sing a song, sometimes we want to listen a music from this item, but sometimes, it can be used in English Language Teaching classroom. Not all the times but if voice record is necessary it could be used. Also we can listen many things about different peoples and different topics.
I can recommend you to record about a lesson, topic, an interview. It could be different in language teaching.
WEEK 11 :Creating and Publishing a Web Page,Designing an online classroom in 3D Virtual Worlds
In my final Post I talk about Creating a web page and 3D virtual Worlds. We use web pages many ways in our life. But did we make a webpage? most of us say NO!. Because we find creating webpages so difficult. But “weebly” makes it easier. With weebly we can make every kind of websites in free way. And of course we can create a webpage about ELT classrooms. Moreover, The game second life is both funny and instructive for a teacher and a student.
With weebly we can open many pages, add many topics in the pages. First,İf we want it more visual we can add phe pages slideshares, images or whatever pictures we want. Second, we can add links to the texts, İn homepage we add our biography and CV, It is so useful to me. Also in the future I will use it in my life and add this website in my CV
Than, second life is so interactive, communicative game for us. Most of us watched surrogates, gamer. We are representing a person in this game. We go to school, go to holiday, museums, We go Also English courses if we pay money, like a person we live. And as teacher we can open school and give lessons to our students. Download the videos. presentations. It is so useful. But a little problem is your internet should be unlimited. Otherwise you cannot connect this game.
Today I will explain you Creating an online classroom using and Online Conference Tools. These are much more used in when we are in the different places or cities or countries. Wherever we are we can connect each other (teachers- teachers, students-teachers,students-students.) they are so useful for our communication skills.
The first one is nicenet, dokeos and edmodo.These are used for online lessons. And also if we don’t have much time to some lessons in classroom, we can upload the tasks and then students have to do the tasks untill the date which we choose. In nicenet also the students can upload their folders, share with their friends and also their friends can correct the incorrect datas.
The second one is online conference tools. These are wiziq and google hangouts. with these items we can do conferences With the english teachers in all around the world. We can communicate each other. Also it is useful for us.
WEEK 8:Computer Mediated Communication ,Designing Online Presentations Using Prezi
Today I mention about Computer Mediated Communication and Designing Online Presentations Using Prezi. everyone use social media to communicate with the people. But If you don’t know the teaching way of the social media, this post is for you. And if you want to do a presantation in network you can read this post too.
Computer mediated communication tools are Yahoo Messenger,Google Talk,Skype,Facebook,Viber. these items can be used with the students, we can give homeworks via these items and in the lesson we can check it. with google talk, scype, facebook and viber we as teachers can check our students’ speaking ability.
If we want to design online presentations prezi is available for us. we can do presentations in internet we can prepare our CV on wordpress, also we can present it in our school. Belive me it is more funny than powerpoint. But a little problem is if network is slow we can not connect wordpress. if you have this problem please don’t even start .
WEEK:9 Digital Storytelling
Today I will tell about digital storytelling. If your students are newly started learning English, this post is written for you to read.
For digital storytelling mant website is available for you. but today I want to explain storyjumper. Story jumper is a website which stories, vocabulary items, animations, can be prepared for your students. Via storytelling, you can make your students fun and also learn language in a visual way.
With storyjumper, you can use many characters in the website. An also if you don’t have the character you want to add you can find it in google images and add it into your story. Moreover, you can add the places, accessories, dresses, facial expressions.
If you want to bring this book to school you can print which page you want via free way. But if you want it in a book format with a little budget you can have this book in a couple of days. The truth is i liked it so much and I will use it for my students. I belive that the lessons will be more funny with storyjumper.
WEEK:10 Podcasts
Podcasts are not used so much in our country . But İ think that it can be used in a few years. Today I will tell about audioboo o podcasts. Audioboo is used for just the voice records.
Voice records are important of our life. sometimes we sing a song, sometimes we want to listen a music from this item, but sometimes, it can be used in English Language Teaching classroom. Not all the times but if voice record is necessary it could be used. Also we can listen many things about different peoples and different topics.
I can recommend you to record about a lesson, topic, an interview. It could be different in language teaching.
WEEK 11 :Creating and Publishing a Web Page,Designing an online classroom in 3D Virtual Worlds
In my final Post I talk about Creating a web page and 3D virtual Worlds. We use web pages many ways in our life. But did we make a webpage? most of us say NO!. Because we find creating webpages so difficult. But “weebly” makes it easier. With weebly we can make every kind of websites in free way. And of course we can create a webpage about ELT classrooms. Moreover, The game second life is both funny and instructive for a teacher and a student.
With weebly we can open many pages, add many topics in the pages. First,İf we want it more visual we can add phe pages slideshares, images or whatever pictures we want. Second, we can add links to the texts, İn homepage we add our biography and CV, It is so useful to me. Also in the future I will use it in my life and add this website in my CV
Than, second life is so interactive, communicative game for us. Most of us watched surrogates, gamer. We are representing a person in this game. We go to school, go to holiday, museums, We go Also English courses if we pay money, like a person we live. And as teacher we can open school and give lessons to our students. Download the videos. presentations. It is so useful. But a little problem is your internet should be unlimited. Otherwise you cannot connect this game.
