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The Internet, unlike any other medium before it, is interactive and accessible to a great deal of people at once. It has the ability to provide endless amounts of information that can be used to motivate students to conduct investigations on any given topic. As an interactive tool for learning, teachers can use the Internet to stimulate creative thought and guide students to develop critical thinking in their "quest" for knowledge. But, how does a teacher tame the nature of the Internet to provide his/her students with a beneficial learning environment? One model approach for this dilemma is called a Web Quest developed in 1995 by Bernie Dodge of San Diego State University. Simply put, a Web Quest is an inquiry-based activity where students are given a task and provided with access to on-line resources to help them complete the task. It is an ideal way to deliver a lesson over the web. Web Quests are discovery learning tools; they are usually used to either begin or finish a ...

 I feel like AR would only be interesting to children, I don't imagine high schoolers being amazed at them showing their papers to a camera and watching a video pop up.  And there isn't a free, easy-to-use one on the internet either. Every app regarding AR feels husky and dull. Regardless I was able to make a really amateur one. I can see myself getting better at creating AR but currently, AR would be quite tough to integrate as classes are online and teachers don't make handouts and use them in class at the moment. The task itself: PDF

I think doing videos on grammar is less interesting and they are less likely to gain attention compared to vocabulary videos. I feel like with grammar there is less room to move around and do things differently. If done exceptionally well these might work wonders but I don't see myself making these as hopeful as I am making vocabulary videos. Because these come with way more explanation and just more work in general. I've done the video and quiz linked below with Şevval ( bit.ly/3wcyL8W ) and Sena ( bit.ly/3uxuLyr ) video: youtu.be/HEgJzsj6JJo quiz:  bit.ly/3yMAh3J

 Personally, my interest spikes if the information I'm about to consume is presented with good visuals. But I think the biggest challenge when producing content is whether YOU like it or not. I think many teachers would attempt these sorts of things, but give up because of the quality of their content. I'm posting what I've helped create but I feel like it would take a lot of projects for me to be comfortable with showing my work to my students. And these are good practices. It's not that a non-perfect project wouldn't work, but it would be about motivation. If things keep looking nice and fancy then teachers would keep doing it. But teachers and teacher candidates should be aware of what their first few projects would look like. Not judging ourselves hard can come in handy in this context. Şevval's blog: bit.ly/3wcyL8W Video: bit.ly/3htkgtk Quiz: bit.ly/3bzJEKa

Corpus is a collection of linguistic data, either compiled as written texts or as a transcription of recorded speech. The main purpose of a corpus is to verify a hypothesis about language - for example, to determine how the usage of a particular sound, word, or syntactic construction varies. It is vital to teach learners how to learn, and teaching how to take advantage of the corpus is important as well. And language awareness tasks are a way to do exactly that.  My friend Ebru (learningwithebru.blogspot.com) and I have prepared one using Skell. Link to the task:  bit.ly/3ebQ2b9

Hello for the last time as I plan to end the blog with this post. I will be talking about the experiences that I had while taking the course.  Before taking the course I always thought technology integration in education was not cost-efficient and not all that necessary, especially in language teaching. Unfortunately, my opinion hasn't changed drastically. I am not the only one to think like this,  Saro Mohammed (2018) says  "Perhaps the best-kept secret of research on ed-tech is the fact that teachers and teaching remain the most important influences on learning. Tech or no tech, effective learning is all about teaching." and I agree, the money and effort spent into technology can be spent on training teachers or creating better class environments (classrooms with fewer students, etc.) Among the tasks, I think the most progressive one was the storytelling one. Storytelling and the style you have when expressing an idea is quite vital. I think the Youtube channel 'Hal...