Quizlet

    Hello friends! This week I am going to talk about an ELT webpage: Quizlet 

   Quizlet is a free website created by high school student Andrew Sutherland in 2005. And now, contains over 400 million study sets. 

   

   Quizlet is for high school and college students, language learners, grad students, home-school students, teachers … Anyone studying anything, frankly. I think the best thing about Quizlet is: It is free for students! And as a difference, all of the material is user-generated.

  

   Quizlet is good for studying almost any subject, from languages and vocabulary to history to science and the arts. It is providing learning tools for students, including flashcards, study and game modes. Students enter the material they need to learn for a class or exam, and Quizlet provides tools and games to help them learn their stuff.  You can add images and listen to audio, and even study on the go with one of dozens of Quizlet-compatible mobile apps. It makes it easy to create and share study materials, to study with a few friends or an entire class.

   

   As a student, the only thing you have to do is joining. When you join, you will see this page below, (it is my own) and that's all! You are ready to create your own exercises and also see others' examples. 

   I recommend you to use this website because it is in your hands to create whatever you want. It is user friendly. As an EFL teacher, for example, you can use flashcards section affectively. Hope you like :)

Follow Blogs Easily

   As  Benjamin Franklin said: Time is money. Our world is developing and changing; We want to reach news as soon as possible. The internet with more than a billion existing pages and thousands more being created each day, is the best way to conduct. We may sometimes lack of reaching the speed of all the mass. There are many blogs, websites etc. and little time to follow all of them. So, it is possible to get lost. But the condition is not that bad!


   This week, the task our teacher gave us was writing a post about RSS feed and blogs we follow. It means, I have learned a new add-on: RSS(REALLY SIMPLE SYNDICATION) It is a program that runs in the background and constantly waits for your favorite sites to post new content. When something new pops up on a site you follow, it instantaneously drops your feed reader. In other words, it allows you to see which websites have new articles and which don't. You are also able to see past entries.
 
   Using RSS can save you lots of time on a daily basis. For example, in order to visit all of the pages you are interested in, you just check your RSS feed reader and see what is going on. That's all!
I use Google Chrome's Feeder. It is easy to use and control. This is how it looks;

   When it comes to blogs I follow, I want to introduce you my favorite blog ' Sentence First ' It is an Irish man's blog about English language, it's usage, history etc. He shares posts in different topics. For example: 'how to pronounce a word?' or 'the review of a book'. I want you to give a look to his page. I am sure that you will find out many things suitable for you :)

Frozen Review

"Here I stand and here I'll stay! " said Elsa.

     As you understand, today me and my friend Ebru analyzed the animation 'Frozen'. Our weekly topic was making a film review on Wikispace with our partner. So, we decided to choose Frozen. We chose this movie because we love both the film and songs of the film. You can read our review from this link. 


                                         
 
 About Wikispace, I have to say that it is a good area to share reviews. As affordances that wiki have, you can easily shape your posts and add images, gifs etc. With the help of its practicality, it saves time when checking others' wikis and also gives you the chance to edit them and see the previous changes in post. If I have to say something negative about Wiki, I can just say that sometimes, being able to edit others' posts can create mess. Although, I highly recommend you to use it in your classroom and I will be using, too.

 

    The time we were studying, we had fun. We generally sang the songs of the movie and danced. It sometimes created problems and we wasted so much time but it is okay.
   
     Group works are beneficial in seeing your own mistakes and learning others' thoughts in the same subject. Especially when your task is full of fun.

    When it comes to our movie, there is an underlying reason for me to choose this movie. When I first watched the film, I felt very brave. It was like 'Yes, if I want, I can do everything I want. Just let it go!'. I think no matter on which age you are, you should watch this movie, I have learned many things and hope that you will learn, too. :)

 Here are some related videos:
Trailer 
Let it Go
Do You Wanna Build a Snowman? 
Official Site 

Podcasting Experience

Hello again!

This week, we made our first project: Podcasts! 

We were supposed to make our own podcasts with group. My pair was Ebru. There were 3 options in project: First was making a chant and singing it. Second was creating 60 second idea to improve the world and talking about it. The last option was creating a sound rich story and narrating it together with our partner.

We chosed the last one, created a sound rich story. 

From the beginning, I have to say that we had a lot of fun during our project. We had to give breaks because of our laughings. My friend changed her voice so much, we had to give the feeling that the story is real. Adding all effects was sometimes became hard for us because of our lack of technology knowledge. Nonetheless, I think we did it! In my opinion, I will give the same task to my students,too. Because it helps providing correct pronunciation and gives self confidence to shy students who cannot speak in classroom. 

Our story is about two friends' scary day. When everything is normal, something strange happens. Here is the podcast and if you want to read the story click read more below.

Welcome Post

   Hello everyone. Welcome to my blog. This is my first post to you. I expect we will have great time together. I am a little excited but we will learn and improve our education understanding together. 

I am going to share projects that I have in my school. And also inspiring quotes, techniques, images and videos that I like, about education. Hope you enjoy!