Timely updates via "RSS"

Hello everybody! I am here with another topic in this week again. It is "RSS" which is generally called as Really Simple Syndication. What is it? Let me explain it for those who do not know about it. It is something for delivering regularly changing web content. I chose to use Feed Reader. Before I began to take my lesson Teaching Techniques and Materials Desing, I was unaware of its existance. Thanks to my teacher Gökçe Kurt, now I can profit from this perfect tool. You may ask me why I regard it as an excellent stuff so if I should explain the reasons, I can say these :

-You are provided with timely updates from your favourite websites as a result you do not have to manually check those sites in order to see if there is a new content or not. By this way, you gain a great deal of time.
-You can collect data from so many sites. When you open it, you meet with a rich view.
-You can simply scan through the headlines and decide to which ones you will spend your time.

By the way, I would like to mention one of the bloggers I follow: Lisa Nielsen-the innovative educator. She says that she found school boring and irrelevant and that ticked her off; she writes that blog to share ideas to help change that for others. When I read her this about me section, I immediately thought that I could find interesting things which may change my thoughts about education or help me improve my process and started to have a close look at it. You can also glance at her blog by clicking here.

Additionally, I put my feed reader's screenshot here in case those, who do not know it, may want to see what it looks like. See you soon!


Picture Resouce: http://www.123rf.com/photo_5821935_cartoon-illustration-of-blue-bird-on-a-tree-branch-singing-with-rss-icon.html

Wiki Task

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https://filmreviewsformagazines.wikispaces.com/Like+Stars+on+Earth

Hello! I have got another task. This time, I am responsible for making a film review with one of my friends, Kıymet Yasavul, who has watched the same film and is able to share this duty with me. We were supposed to imagine that we were reviewing this film, Like Stars On Earth, in order to post it for our school magazine. I have indeed enjoyed while doing this job because I was not only able to find someone who watched the same film which I like so much (this made my participating an easy one in this collaboration work) but also develop my technological side for my education as a pre-service teacher. When it comes to talk about the advantageous sides of wiki page, I can say that it is useful because you can reach so many examples and searchers can comment on each other's works. However, I should also mention that it has a disadvantage: a work can be deleted by anyone. As a result, if it is used in a good way, efficient outcome can be obtained.

See you soon again. :)

Our First Experience In Making a Podcast

For our Teaching Techniques and Material Design lesson, I and my dear friend Yağmur Topuz made this podcast. Before doing it, we had an opinion that we would have difficulty in studying this but after we came together, we saw that it was not as difficult as we expected. Moreover, we even enjoyed sometimes. We think that our work is suitable for young learners of foreign language who are a little beyond the beginning level. If we should explain why, we can say that by our story's simplicty as understanding and its vocabulary supporting sound effects, the audiences will be able to develop their listening and comprehension skills. We hope you enjoy during the listening time. 

Vocabulary Game-Taboo

 

In my first post, I want to share one of my memories which is from a lesson of my teacher Okan Önalan. Last year, he recommended this game to us and we accepted because we thought that this game would enable us to learn or remember so many words in an enjoyable and a kind of different way. It would also enable us to become more socialized. If I remember right, we chose our game's words from our lesson's book (so actually learning or practicing those words was our duty) and wrote them on papers. Then, the game started. We were not so crowded but not few people either. Everything was good. We went to a desk which was in the center in a turn and also our teacher was sitting there just to show his withitness and check the state of the game. We were thrilled by the game's atmosphere. Everyone tried to participate (in an active or a passive(in their mind) way). I mean that it was more than a school work. It was not a traditional kind of a job for us. I could not see anyone task-off. We enjoyed it, by enjoying, we indeed learnt so many things. Now, you may ask me what those words were but I probably can not remember a major part of them. This is not because of the method, it is because of my not applying them in use. To me, a teacher is not only responsible for what he/she will teach but also for how to teach it. On the other hand, the only responsible one is not the teacher, of course, students have to take some responsibilities, too. By cooperation, education becomes more valuable and meaningful. Should I create a conclusion, I learnt from my teacher's method that monotonous training does not make students eager to attend the class, but make their learning attempt weaker. When my "being a teacher" turn comes, I believe I will use this method whenever I find a suitable moment. Finally, I want to write a sentence (as a pre-service teacher) that has just come to my mind: Our pedagogical purpose must not be the one that makes our students passive, but rather active. See you soon!