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Preparing AI Enhanced Corpus Based Materials!

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 Hello dear readers! This is the first material assignment of this year and I am very exhausted already! Me and my dearest friends Buse , Berfin and Elena made an AI enhanced Corpus based material together, but the timing of the assignment was...Not very well thought and student friendly, to say the least. We made a lesson plan, which you can check by tapping here , and a four page digital worksheet, which you can access by tapping here ! We made the worksheet via Canva , prepared the lesson plan with Google Docs ! Now, let's talk about the contents of the material, and discuss about its effectiveness! The material was created according to the ASSURE and DDL (Data Driven Learning) education models! The ASSURE model is basically an educative method that helps teachers choose materials and adapt lesson plans successfully according to the features of the class they are working with. Meanwhile DDL encourages students to discover the subject themselves, treating language like data. Th...
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Welcome Back!

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  Hello, dear readers! Welcome back to my blog, I am so glad to be back into this blog that I prepared for my previous class from the last semester! From now on, I will continue using it for the Current Issues in Teaching English class I have this semester! I will post about technology and how it affects education, different usages of AI and how to integrate it properly to education, how to use a good variety of teaching methods, and how to prepare materials for English Language Teaching. I will be using this blog to also keep track of the materials I prepared, think of it as l an online portfolio for my future career! I can't wait to get started, I do hope you missed me as much as I missed you! I will do my best to prepare well made materials for you to practice English! Wish me best of luck please! Take care and stay safe!
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Farewell, dear readers!

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  Hello, dear readers! I have made it to the end of another term, yay! I hope you were fond of my content so far! Worry not, there is more to come but not until the next term, sadly! I had a lot of fun while making this blog, however as someone with dysphoria, it was (and it still is) really hard for me to show my face or share my voice in online public platforms. I am planning to keep my account here as our teacher had asked, since we will probably continue to update this blog in the next term. As much as I struggled in some tasks, blog writing was a new experience and an overall fun activity to do for me! My greatest struggle on this task is probably the podcasting one since, as I shared before, I absolutely hate sharing my voice on public platforms. As for my favorite task, It is digital storytelling since I could not only share my voice on a secure platform, I could also do something creative with my dearest friend! I learned about a lot of new tools and task ideas that will he...
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Chatting With the Phantom of the Opera Himself!

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 Hello, dear readers! Our proffesor has given us the task to chat with an AI chatbot from The Magic School  ,which takes the figure of a historical figure or a book character, write a report on the converstion, and lastly, to give the report to the writing feedback tool created by the same company, get feedback and rewrite the report according to the feedbacks! I chose to converse with The Phantom, Erik, from The Phantom of the Opera, written by Gaston Leroux. He is one of my favorite book charaters. I asked him some questions about the French culture in the era that the book takes place in.  After questioning I got into writing, made my first draft, gave it to the feedback tool and made some adjustments to my report. However, I have to admit that most of the feedback I received did not seem relevant to me, so I did not use them. You can see the transcript of the conversation, both drafts of my report and the feedback I received by clicking here !  While I was chatti...
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Dead Poets Society: Carpe Diem

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 Hello, dear readers! Me and my friends Buse and Gülşen  did a film review on Dead Poets Society and our peers Elena , Berfin and Baran expressed their opinions on it, you can access each of their blogs by tapping on their names! The task was assigned to us by our professor, she asked us to review a film by first introducing its background and then continuing with a plot summary. After that, we were assigned to choose 3 aspects of the movie such as music, costumes, actor choices etc. Lastly we gave our last ideas and rated the movie. I worked in the first paragraph, decoration and also the aspects part! Also, you can have access to the review page to take a look for yourself by clicking here ! Here is a screenshot of the review page and one of the comments from my peers! I suggest checking the full page because there are over 5 comments and I am afraid that if i share all of them here, the post will be unnecessarily long! With my teammates, we first re-watched the movie, th...
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Digital Storytelling: To Reach the Brightest Star

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Hello, dear readers! Me and my dearest friend, Buse Beyaz , have created a digital story like our professor has assigned us to do! We used Vimeo to upload it, and have embedded the link here  for you to watch! The story is about a planet trying to reach the brightest star in the universe! Our intention was to teach young children about the planet names and how far they are from the sun. The first part is drawn by me (I know I am not very skilled in digital drawing, but I tried my best, sorry if it looks bad!) , and the second part is drawn by my friend! My friend is really skilled and I absolutely adore how we can see the emotion in every scene! Of course, this task has its own difficulties. We (especially I) struggled a lot with animating characters so we chose not to, however we also did not want to use character creating websites because we wanted to make something more special and something which we could make a memory out of! I loved this task and I also loved how it made me ...
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Podcast: A Trickster's Treachery

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 Hello, dear readers! We were assigned to create a podcast by our professor! Me and my dearest friend, Buse Beyaz chose to do a storytelling podcast that included some selected words and sound effects! The story we told is about a sneaky crime committed by a magician and it is targeted to teenagers and young adults. I do not want to spoil the story too much since the ending is a bit unexpected, so you can take a listen to it  here ! The first half of the story is told by my friend, and the second half, by me! You can access my friend's blog here !  Of course while we were preparing this podcast, we encountered some difficulties. Since we did not have the right equipment or any podcasting/editing experience, it was very hard for us to record (for recording, we used Vocaroo , it is a very nice app and is very beginner friendly!). Plus, it was very, VERY uncomfortable to hear my own voice. The environment did not feel very safe to record a podcast since I was in my own home ...
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