Technology in Elt

  1. Goal of the project : The goal of this project is to help the participants develop their speaking skills. In relation to this, we expect the participants to produce the target language effectively in their daily lives to maintain good communication. We aim to develop our participants' speaking skills by presenting them powerpoint presentations that have engaging and interactive speaking activities. These activities aim to make the participants think in the target language and produce it. In addition, trying to help them improve their vocabulary development is another goal of  the project. The reason why we have this goal is because we believe that producing the target language requires a good vocabulary. In addition, we believe that knowing enough words is helpful in terms of producing the target language in an effective and meaningful way. It is aimed to help participants improve their vocabulary development by making them benefit from the website that is called “Quizlet...

Lyricstraining is a website that is completely based on helping students improve their listening skills by letting them choose a song from a variety of genres and then having them guess the lyrics of it.  Firs thing you need to is sign up to listen to any music. After you do that, what you are going to see is like this You can also select a genre as stated in the image. After  that, you can choose any music and the level of the game. You guess 10% of the lyrics at the beginner level, 25% at the intermediate level, 50% at the advanced level, and all at the expert level.  After choosing the game mode, you start trying to guess the lyrics of the song you choose. What you are going to do is like this Thank you for reading my blog. Have a nice day!

  Bookwidget can be said to be one of the interactive tools that help the class turn into an interactive environment thanks to its many different widgets such as pairmatching , quiz , mind map , crossword , memory game , hangman , worksheets,   flashcards  and so on.   How to add content? In order to benefit from the tool, you should create an account for yourself. Once you do that, you should go to "widgets" and then "create new widget" that is on the right side. After you do that, you are going to be able to see a lot of widgets. You can choose one of them and start making the learning fun for your students. Here are some other images from the widgets. Now it is time for you to share the content with your students! After you finish preparing the widgets, you can share them with your students by clicking on "get shareable link" that is on the right side.  After that, you are going to see a link with which you can share your students.  Finally, the stu...

 What is Moodle? Moodle stands for modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment and is an online plaform that allows individuals to create their online class and start teaching by using multimedia tools in the course. It can be said that Moodle can be used as a distance education tool. Instructor can create an activity for students to make sure that what is taught to them was comprehended by students which shows that gamification can be a good method for them to find the course engaging . Moodle is an interactive place because the teacher and student can send a message or picture to each other. Teachers can also give a task or assignment to their students and they can upload it to the platform. Moodle is used by about fifty thousand universities which shows that it is a benefical for online learning system. Images were taken from Moodle and Wikipedia

 What is Blackboard? Blackboard is an online platform that can be used for distance education. Its concept is actually doing the same processes that most teachers do in their face-to-face classes. It allows instructors to prepare a  wide variety of content for their learners such as audio files, animated videos and PowerPoint presentations. It is also easy for teachers to give their students a feedback ,  track their process online. In this platform, teachers can assign a quiz or assignment for any lesson for their students. Blackboard can be said to help teachers ease their burden of assessing the papers because they are scored without teachers having to look at them. As a result, it is beneficial for teachers to manage the class and students to be informed of  everything that is going on in their classes. Images were taken from Blackboard

 What is Virtual Reality? Virtual reality is a simulation technology that helps individuals find themselves in an  animated  environment that is extremely similar to our real world. It allows us to experience the world differently. We can visit museums or touristic places that we have never visited before thanks to it. In order to experience the virtual world, a headset is needed. Now I want to introduce you to an application which is called  Mondly VR . You can learn how you should speak in the target language in particular situations like placing an order. Students may  overcome the fear of speaking  in front of the class or take the opportunity to practice the target language as much as possible thanks to the application. Now I want to show a short video about it. The video is from the Youtube channel  Mondly Languages. Thank you for reading. I hope to see you in my next blog posts :)

What is Augmented Reality? Augmented Reality (AR) is a new concept of visualizing the multimedia tools such as video, image, and more.  Snapchat  or  Instagram   filtres  can be an example of it. AR gives us opportunity to bring the visual materials to our life and makes us feel that we are really like  one step away from touching them . As for adapting the AR technology into the education field, it can be said that it is a crucial way of making the language lessons fun for our learners (I will add more information in the next paragraphs). Unlike VR, AR is more  getable  because we do not even have to buy a headset to use it. Having a mobile phone is enough for experincing it. Augmented reality is suited for applying it to other platforms like science, design or architecture. Now I want to introduce you to one example of AR application. Its name is "Vahsi Hayvanlar" which is "Wild Animals". I showed my camera to the image of lion and it turned int...