Nehir's Educational Technology Blog

Hello everyone, we have come to the end of the semester. This blogpost is a bit emotional for me because we have left another era behind. Current Issues in ELT was a course I definitely enjoyed I had difficulties in the tasks we did this semester and experienced situations that I had difficulty understanding. But it proved that this lesson taught me a lot. I really liked about this course was that I got to prepare materials not as a student but as a teacher candidate instead. I will definitely use what I learned in this course when I become a teacher in the future. The AR/VR integrated material was my favorite one because I like designing it and found it interesting to experience AR/VR. I had a lot of fun doing this task. The most difficult and least fun thing I had to do was the corpus-based teaching material because it took me a long time to do this task and it took me a long time to understand how to do it. I don't think this course needs to be improved because it is already nic...

Hello everyone. For our last assignment of the term, we were supposed to create an AI-integrated material, with the target audience being preparation EFL learners in high school. My group friends were İrem Çınar and Defne Baskan . While preparing this task, we divided it into three and divided the work. We all prepared an activity.  We found and use a decent writing task from the book that was provided and added it to our material.  We found a way to make students use AI tools such as Grammarly and ChatGPT while doing this writing task. We decided that Canva was the most suitable application for this task and we used Canva. Thank you for reading. You can click here to access our AI-integrated material Take care of yourself, see you. 

 Hey everyone, this week we were assigned to write an AR/VR project. On this task, we worked with my group friends İrem Çınar and Defne Baskan . First of all, we had to choose a city for this task and introduce a few of the most important buildings in that city and the famous food of that city. So we decided to examine New York City. We decided which structures we would examine and did some research on these structures and added them to our presentation. We supported our presentation with relevant visuals and made it interesting. Our target audience for this assignment was high school students. We added a 360-degree panorama of the buildings by adding a QR code so that students could see and experience the buildings we examined better. We used Canva while doing our project. This project really added a lot to me. I definitely want to benefit from this technology in my teaching life. I had a lot of fun doing it and learned a lot. In the future, I want to add more things to my studen...