Lights, Camera, Action!

Dear students;
Let's  introduce the next lesson:



                                                                           
                                   

1. You see some film posters above.
2. Post as a comment your favourite one among them.
3. Try to remember or watch it again.
4. While watching it,  re-evaluate it and make deep-thinking  in  terms of its plot, its special effecs, acting,music and its ending. 

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