PODCAST

   Hi my pity reader :)

     Today, we are going to talk about podcats. I'm sure most of you know what is podcast because it is a famous and known tool of the today's world. Especially, it is used in education, entertainment, and politics.

                                            

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     Podcasts are dijital media files which can be about any topic and include videos and voices. Podcast are divided into two. The first one is authentic podcast and the second one is ESL-EFL podcast. Both of them are usefull and effective in 20th century learning. Teachers can benefit from podcast to make lessons more enjoyable and experience a more effective learning environment. Students also can both benefit from podcasts for learning and can create their own podcasts easily. Voki and Vocaroo are some podcast tools.

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     This week, we was responsible for creating a podcast. I and my dear friend Hilal decided to create a song inspired by Britney Spears's song named Scream and Shout. Our cartoon character were Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. We decided to write a song about these two characters and according to their roles in the cartoon. We used the music of the Scream and Shout. It was really fun and benefical. Our collaboration, writing, listening, and pronouncation skills have been developed thanks to podcast. We used Vocaroo while writing an releasing(!) our song. 

                         

                                                           click here to listen our song:)

     Podcasts are useful and benefical tools in learning of target languages in foreign language classes. As a teacher candidate and student, I highly recommend podcatst to be used in education. 

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A WEB-BASED PROJECT: PADLET

 Hi my pity reader :)

   Today, we are going to talk about websites. I'm sure that you are familiar with some website pages but our focus is on the ones which are used for educational purposes. These websites should be enough and useful in terms of accuracy, currency, content, and function. 

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     This week we were tasked with creating a padlet wall, an website example. It was the funniest and the easiest assignment that I have experienced. First, we divided into groups consist of four members, my teammates were Esma, Elif, and Rezan. Our topic was poverty as a global issue. We create a wall on padlet to write our thoughts about poverty on it collaboratively. We created a KWL chart, What we know, What we want to know, and What we learned. In first chart, we wrote the things we already know about poverty, then each member wrote three question that they want to know, and in the last chart we wrote the answes of the questions using images, videos. 

                             

                                                     You can click here to see our Padlet wall.

    As a teacher candidate, I can definetly advise teachers and student to use this precious website as a tool of collaborative working.  

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