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.

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.