The World of My Husky

Glogster Experience

      Preparing a glogster page was the most entertaining and the easiest task from the beginning of the course.

      It was really an easy job after gathering relevant and necessary information. I chose the Siberian husky as my animal. I dont know why I chose it but it is probably due to its outer features: it looks cute to me. After gathering the required information, having the total freedom of editing the page ( missing the templates) made me feel enjoyed and happy.

       The shapes , text boxes , the design of pages are so attractive and catchy for students that the illustration of the same topic or notion in a traditional way ( on a white page) and in a creative way ( a glogster page) can arouse the before and after effect of the product advertisement in terms efficiency and accessibility  of learning and teaching . Using glogster, teachers can express the same things in a more interesting and authentic way and so facilitate learning. Black inscription on white paper can bore but colorful  design , little boxes , graphic and video attachments leave less chance for students to be bored or apathetic to the classroom context.  

My Glogster

Ceren and Her Monkey

Enjoy it :)

First Experience of DS

DIGITAL STROYTELLING

       Digital storytelling is a tool for making creative and entertaining stories for educational purposes in that context. It enables to visualize the story in the minds of students, people, audiences etc. and to make the story accessible for learners regarding second language learning. Digital storytelling uses technology to explain an idea, a concept or a traditional story. Digital stories can be prepared in many forms and on the base of many programs. The stories can be in the form of slideshows, a podcast, a video, an animation or even some Power Point. It is extremely useful for teachers to enliven classroom and arouse more student participation and interest and it has serious areas of usage. Teachers who are shy, forgetful or bored with traditional presentations can taste the benefit of this technology without fearing to forget or being silly or incomprehensible for students. Students who are also bored with traditional narrative teacher style can like that kind of storytelling and be more active in those classes. It seems that the only handicap of storytelling is whether or not teacher has an access to various technological tools such as a personal computer, a microphone, a digital camera and some free software. Nevertheless when today’s modern classrooms are taken into consideration, it is possible to say that DS will be an everyday tool for an ordinary teacher one day hopefully.

            Me and my pair, two callow storytellers, had so much fun that we could hardly stop our laughters. We seriously cope with Moviemaker. Firstly, we write the script. Before writing, we thought about first topic then story. I mean we followed a topic-based way: our topic was place of prepositions. As we targeted kindergarten students, we had a small scale of them: in, on, under, between and behind. After choosing the story, it was an easy job to create the story:  It flashed in my mind suddenly. We took the photos of every scene after drawing the furnitures and sequenced them via Moviemaker. We added the voice recordings and music later. It is needless to say that we learned so much about the moviemaker and digital storytelling experiencing it in real way.

          Lastly, it was a really entertaining and educational experience for us. We learned something new in every step and we tried to push limits of creativity and this is true for all the tasks we had done since the beginning of the course actually.

                

                           

DS WORDLE

Puzzle!

JULIA ROBERTS : An Interview

                   


        The successful Hollywood actress Julia Roberts discusses her role in the new film: Eat,Pray,Love, based on the best-selling book about self-discovery by Elizabeth Gilbert.

    

       

        A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself.

The interviewer : Mark Lawson

 The  interviewee : Hollywood Actress Julia Roberts

       The interview starts with a sound section from the movie Eat, Pray and Love. Then, interviewer goes through the three interview topic of the day:

v Julia Roberts and her role in Eat, Pray and Love

v Mark Ronson

v Diaghilev's legacy

      The first 8 minutes of the interview is devoted to Julia Roberts and her role in Eat,Pray and Love. The section runs almost completely with sounds and dialogs taken from the movie.

    At the introduction,  the interviewer starts the interview with the praising remarks telling about the book “Eat,Pray and Love and continues with the actresse Julia Roberts. ıt is a best-seller based on a woman who decided  a worldwide tour after a painful divorce. he mentions about the book nominated to awards and its success all over the world. He also talks the books’  author Elizabeth Gilbert.

Movie has to become something different?

       
        This was presented as a question to the successful Hollywood actress Julia Roberts. she talked about that they made some additions and amendement on the book in terms of plot. She mentioned about the Elizabeth Gilbert’s desires : some kinds of creativeness  and liberation but on the other respective of the book. Some expands occurred in the movie developing spontaneously she reports.
        As the second question, the interviewer talks about the judgment that the character she plays in the film is seen a bit selfish and she a kind of brave taking a year without doing anything and looking for who she is herself.

        “…I never thought that she was selfish  I think it is almost like a cultural response to  a woman taing a year to do nothing but thinking  about herself seem incomprehensible and I think it is really brave but somewhere it is selfish…but this does not mean it is not  necessary or interesting.”
      
       As the third question , she was asked about whether she feels powerful to do pretty much she wants in the movie. She accepted her capability in a polite way.

       The questions by interviwer was quite out of the common. Julia Roberts answered them sincerely. The conversation betweeen them flowed  naturally and ended again in a natural way.

 If I were the interviewer , I would ask to her that ;
        For a deep understanding , the trailer of the movie;

     
      What kind of difficulties did they have  as a film team while making the film : 
      As  the people who watched the film knows  locations  are so much: New York, Rome and Delhi,  India...
       Secondly, I would ask ; How did she feel while revivifying her?

Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjay5vgIwt4

Julia Roberts' photo : http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2013/01/06/julia-roberts-and-mark-ruffalo-set-to-star-in-hbos-the-normal-heart/
The interviewers' photo : http://sophielasson.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/mark_lawson.jpg

              
                                                                                          
                                                                                                                     Have a nice day...