IT IS REALLY ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND MATERIALS DESIGN!

Hello everyone.

In this post, I want to tell you all my thoughts and experiences about the Technology and Materials Design course which is I have been taking in university this year. As I mentioned before, this blog was opened as a requirement of the Technology and Materials Design course. But I never wrote on this blog as a necessity of this course.

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When I heard the name of this course at the very beginning of the semester, I thought that I will spend a period with papers, cartons, colored pencils and etc. However, I was quite surprised that the content of the lesson was totally different from what I had expected.

The course was theoretical actually in the first weeks. We have been informed about the content of the course, how it will be handled, what the blog is like, and so on.

You have known me for about 10 weeks, my friends, my family and my teachers also have known me and I've already mentioned it before; I am not good at technology and something related to technology. Maybe it's because I do not have any interest. But, I managed this course.

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Collaboration is the most important thing that helped me during this period of my life. When I collaborate with somebody, I feel more confident and more relaxed.

While setting my blog for the first time, I wanted my friend's to help me. Then, I learned a lot of things that helped me during this blogging process like embedding a link, adding visuals, setting the background etc.

I wrote more than ten posts whether they were obligatory or not. Because while I was writing, I was enjoying at the same time. Even it was hard, it was still enjoyable.

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The behaviors of my instructor also effected my view on this couse. Because I believe that I can listen to the teacher's lesson I love. So it was an important point for me on this issue.

Considering all this, I will continue blogging because in the future when I work as a teacher, I will easily find sources that help me that prepared by me. It is amazing!

If you want, you can follow my instructor's blog here.

I highly recommend you to look at it.

The picture above is taken from here.

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Thank you, Oğulcan Özdağ.

KAHOOT : TOOLS FOR EVERYONE!

Hello everyone.

I want to start by saying a lot of apologies to my words. I have not been able to write anything in almost three weeks. I could almost say that these three weeks were the busiest three weeks of my life. In addition to the Technology and Materials Design course, I also had an assignment to complete for Scientific Research Methods course. Anyway, I can finally write my posts.

First of all, I want to talk about a tool I made a presentation with my friend Hasan in the class I had experienced during this period. It was Kahoot. It is simply a web-based tool that allows you to prepare quizzes, discussions and surveys on it.

In details, a Kahoot can be created by teachers, students, business-people or social users and it can be played with an unlimited number of users.

The most common type that is created by using this tool is Quiz. In a Quiz, you can add as many questions as you want. Also you can use videos, pictures or something visual while adding the questions. In a question, you should mention at least two at most four options to answer. There should be one correct answer and you have to set a time-limit for each question.

The other type is the Discussion type. Discussions are designed to facilitate a conversation. When people attend the conversation, there is one quick question with no right or wrong answer. You can use visuals while adding the questions as well. You can also set a time-limit. In this type, everyone in the conversation is supposed to mention their thoughts on this issue. I think this one is more business-like, but if our aim is to create a business-like atmosphere, we can use it everywhere else.

The last type you can create by using this tool is Survey. You can add questions as many as you want related to your topic. By preparing the questions, you can add visuals. Also in this type you have to add at least two at most four options but none of is the right answer. Because, this is a survey, you can just collect data, you cannot examine people.

I will share my PowerPoint slides below which I used in the classroom while presenting this tool and I will also share a slide about 'The Milestones of Fashion History' because me and my friend Hasan created a Quiz type of Kahoot related to this topic.

This tool can be very useful for anyone who has to deal with people after giving courses or presenting a topic etc. with the help of Quizzes. Also in companies, schools or any place where society is with the help of Discussions and Surveys, dealing with the problems can be more easier.

You can access detailed information about Kahoot below:

KAHOOT by Oğulcan on Scribd

You can have a look before test yourself below.

The Milestones of Fashion History by Oğulcan on Scribd

You can test yourself on Kahoot with the code: '8776953'

The picture above is taken from here.

If you want, you can follow Hasan's blog here.

Thank you, Oğulcan Özdağ.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE BEST FRIENDS? : DIGITAL STORYTELLING

Hello everyone.

This is the second post in this week. I apologize for not posting last week. I am publishing this post this week to make up for it. 

As you know, I am writing this blog as a requirement of the Technology and Material Design course. One of our assignments this week was to create a digital storytelling. 

For this reason, my best friend Hasan and I decided to meet and make a story about friendship. What we really need to do is to simply introduce ourselves in the story, to tell us how we met and to say what friendship is for us. But it made us a little scared to try something we had never experienced before. Later on we figured out how simple it was. 

First of all we started by taking the necessary materials such as colorful papers, scissors, pens etc. from the stationery. Later we went to a place where we could work quietly and recorded our video. Actually, after this part, I can say that Hasan made the majority of the work. 

We edited the video first with the editing program called VEGAS Pro. With our voice recorder on my phone, we recorded our audio and inserted the video. After all the editing process we uploaded our video to Youtube. 

As I mentioned before, working with someone on such projects is really useful. We complement each other in matters we do not know, and this simplifies our work. 

Giving the students the task of creating digital stories in English classes can improve their English. Because in this process the student will think in English and record their voices while creating the story. Especially, as in our country, it may prevent English being learned only theoretically.,

You can watch our digital story below.

You can download the editing program by clicking here.

If you want, you can also follow  Hasan's blog here.

The picture above is taken from here.

Thank you, Oğulcan Özdağ.

ENGLISH IS IN MY POCKET: MOBILE LEARNING

Hello everyone.

This week I examined an application on mobile learning. This application is Duolingo. This app is an application that aims to teach language especially English with fun and it is free on mobile devices. 




The application simply works as follows; First of all, after you log in to the application, you are asked whether you are new in learning English or you want to pass the placement test. I solved the placement test. In this test, which lasted about 3 minutes, there were questions in listening, reading, writing and speaking parts. I got to level 9. After this step the application exempts you from the tests of the levels you jump.

The application categorized English as grammar and practice in general. You click on the topic you want to solve such as Foods, Simple Present Tense, etc., and then you see the number of lessons that need to be solved for that topic. At low levels, the number of courses starts at 4 and goes up to 8 at higher levels. If you do not want to complete the topic's lessons lesson by lesson, you have the option of taking the proficiency exam and jumping that one at a time.

The colors of the lessons you have not solved yet are gray. The color of the courses you complete turns into orange. According to the color of the courses you leave halfway, it turns into red or green.

Some of the questions in the lessons are supported by visuals and some of them are answered by recording your voice.

However, many questions in the application usually in the form of translate from Turkish to English or from English to Turkish.

The most favorite feature of this application is that when you give the right answer, it says 'Your answer is correct!' and when you give the wrong answer it says 'You answered wrong!' and warns you by saying the right answer.

The application also aims to have fun competing with friends to increase the amount of fun a bit. In addition, after passing the levels, the application gives you langots and you can visit the app's shop and buy power-ups.

The application aims to teach only two languages (English and German) for Turkish speakers, but for English speakers it offers many language learning options from Spanish to French, Japanese to Catalan.

If you download this application on your mobile device and start to use it, I recommend you to solve the placement test at the beginning of the application.

You can visit the website of this application just by clicking here.

You can download this application by clicking here.

The picture above is taken from here.

Thank you, Oğulcan Özdağ.

WELCOME TO THE MOST ICONIC BLOG IN THE WORLD!

Hi everyone.

I'm new here and I'm so excited about that. This is my first blog experience and I know we will enjoy it together.

I'll share my opinions,
I'll share some facts,
I'll share my projects that I work on etc.

You can also follow me on Instagram!

Please, feel free to leave a comment.

Thank you, Oğulcan Özdağ.