Introducing an app

Hi everyone! This week's task is introducing an app that can be downloaded on mobile phones and makes individuals' learning English easier. As you know, we are in Technology age. So people are trying to benefit from technology in any area in their daily life.Learning English is just one of these. I've searched for many apps and finally decided to introduce LinguaLeo.

 

This app is free. However, you can buy more courses if you want. When you sign in the application, first you are asked for the grammar and language level that you have. The reason for that is understanding your level and proceeding step by step. On the other hand, it includes a dictionary and so many grammar courses, vocabulary tests, practices, words and TED talks. Also, all of these are classified according to the learner levels such as beginners, intermediates, upper-intermediates and advanced ones.

 

What is more, this app has so many advantages in that developing your vocabulary.grammar and listening skills. For instance, while watching TED talks, you are exposed a lot of English and also you can see subtitles that help you understand the topics. So your reading skills are developing,too. An important thing is that, the rules, courses and instructions are explained in Turkish. This is a good thing for people at beginner level.As for me, i liked very much this app and downloaded it on my mobile phone. I am sure it will be useful for all language learners. I hope you'll like it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Storytelling: The Guardian Critter

 

Hi everyone! This week's assignment was to create a digital storytelling by selecting one of the three choices in our Technology and Material Design course, We chose the third one: Creating A Fictional Story. My partner is Beyza.

First of all, digital storytelling is a short form of digital media production that allows everday people to share  aspects of their life story. The media used may include the digital equivalent of film techniques animation, stills, audio only or any other non-physical media which inviduals can use to tell a story or present an idea.

While preparing this project, actually we had so many difficulties. It was because of the lack of knowledge about softwares and technological devices again. Still, it was both enjoyable and tiring experience for us. First, we  made several researches about the programs that we would use. The second step was to explore the online software program to create digital storytelling in it. We used Animaker program. It has a lot of backgrounds, characaters, properties, effects, sounds and so on. However, most of them weren't free. So, this led us to use certain objects in our project.

What is more, collaboration is very important thing while doing assignments. We feel less stressfull when we have a partner. This motivates us and more colourful ideas can occur. We can easily share our ideas with our friend and that makes the assignment more creative.

As for classroom implications, digital story telling is very popular in our age. Because traditional methods in education aren't efficient. Learning can be more permanent through digital storytelling. Teachers using digital storytelling in their courses help their students improve pronunciation, listening and speaking skills easily. I will use it definitely and recommend it to all teachers.

You can watch our Digital Storytelling below. I hope you'll like it. I'm waiting for your comments!