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A Goodbye Post

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 Hello everyone, this time it's the last post that I am writing for this term.  I had a great time doing this blog, sharing my both personal and academic experiences gave me a great joy and motivation to do my best. Not gonna lie, it was the first time I have ever attempted to do such a thing, it was scary as a shy student, but it improved many aspects of my personal development. It gave me many perspectives, different ideas and a great courage of realizing what was in my mind. Because as a language enthusiast, I love to share my knowledge, journey and hardships with people, this blog gave me a chance to actually put it into practice and I am happy to tell you that I will definitely continue sharing my experiences through different platforms! So stay tuned to catch up with the content of mine ^^  Lastly, I would like to thank our instructor Gökçe Kurt Tiftik who gave ICT course, to encourage us to do this, it was one of the best experinces I have had during my academic ...
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Voice-Chat with a Chatbot !!

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 Hello everyone !  I am here again with an assignment I had so much fun doing it 😄  In this assignment, I had a short but a beneficial conversation with ChatGpt. I was asked to choose a particular question and my conversation with this AI started with the question "what a perfect language classroom would look like?" The chat lasted around 5 minutes and ChatGPT did not only give me the answers, but it communicated with me with follow-up questions and asked my opinions after it claimed its ideas on our topic. This was a natural and a beneficial conversation although it was not exactly like human communication. Then, I wrote a reflection paragraph about this experience and used another AI tool (ChatGPT) to correct my mistakes. The revised version avaliable with my original report, I realized how effective AI tools can be in foreign language learning and teaching.   First, talking to ChatGPT was easy and comfortable. I especially asked from it to talk to me in a na...
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An Infographic, again... ^^

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Hey guys!  I am here to share the updated version of my infographic. Baran helped me to revise it in a better way so I did try to change the minor mistakes. I was suggested that I should highlight the explanations a bit more and include a reference to the source I used. So I did ^^   I am leaving the infographic below, see y'all later!! 
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Creating A Digital Story

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     For our assignment, my friend Berke and I created a two-minute animated video based on the well-known starfish story. The narrative followed a young girl tossing starfish back into the sea as she saw they were washed away to the shore, even when an old man tells her she can’t possibly save them all. However, in the end, our story gently reminds us that even a small action can make a big difference with the old man participating to this small act.       Berke came up to me with the story and the script, focusing on a simple storyline with a powerful message at the end. And, I have starting creating the animation after doing the voiceover with Berke. I created the story in Storyboard That, creating 10 scenes to represent the story. I also searched for the background voices like ocean waves from Pixabay. At the end, I used CapCut to bring everything together – images, voice recordings and sound effects into a meaningful video.     ...
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Collaborative Writing of A Film Review ?!

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  Hello everyone, long time no see you !  I hope you are all doing alright. For this week's post, me and my friends were assigned to do a collaborative writing given in the ICT class. The task was quite simple but very entertaining at the same time: choose a film, watch it, and write a collaborative review that includes many aspects of the movie around 400 words. We also had to comment on each other's work and provide feedback in order to make it better.  To assign the tasks to each other, we had an online meeting with my friends. Each of us got the parts where we felt more comfortable doing so. Every of us wrote our parts in different times, but thanks to the Google docs, we were able to check each other's writing at the very moment or just follow how the writing of the paragraph was going. This (immediate feedback and observation) could be the best part of doing our assignment because we were able to communicate through just a simple document!  Working together in ...
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A Vox-Pop Podcast : Our Journey of Creating One

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 Hey everyone ^^      Today I am here with an amazing work that I have created and enjoyed so much during the process. An English Podcast!      For this project, we were asked to create an ELT podcast either alone or with a pair. My friend Baran and I have come up with a vox-pop podcast where we asked a bunch of students of Marmara University from different departments about a single question. Which fictional character would you want as a teacher? Their responses showed us that many students prefer clever, confident and slightly mysterious characters such as like Sherlock Holmes, Dr. House, and Harvey Specter. Besides, the female characters were lesser than male characters among all the answers. Personally, it was a really enjoyable experience to hear such different perspectives.      During the process, I can say that I have enjoyed a lot! However at first we struggled to find an intriguing question so we had to think over it for ...
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An Infographic on Netiquette : How to Behave Properly on Internet

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Overview      For this assignment, I was responsible for creating an infographic with its key points through an enjoyable and engaging way about some topics that has been covered in "Instructional Technologies and Material Design in English Language" class.  Why Did I Choose This Topic?      I wanted to cover netiquette because I have heard it for the first time and it got my attention in the class and when I learned about it thoroughly, I wanted to work on it. For the ones who do not know about what netiquette is, it is how to behave appropriately on online to get along with other users. And, I believe it has a great importance when we consider that now technology is a staple part of our daily lives and as a teacher candidate who will be teaching to digital natives in the very soon future, I wanted to emphasize to it in this blog of mine.  Design Process       To design this infographic, I used Canva as a tool. I found a basic...
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