A Farewell

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    Hi everyone!
    
    As I've mentioned in my "Welcome" post, this blog was opened for my "Instructional Technology and Materials Design" course. Our teacher gave us tasks every week and we wrote posts on our blogs. We generally talked about 21st century learning/teaching, different tools and other websites, blogs that are beneficial in English learning/teaching. 

  And it is a bit hard to choose a favorite task but I want to say I enjoyed the digital storytelling task. I loved creating the story and recording it and also I think it is a good way to use with your students so that you can hear their voices, pronunciations and make them use their creativity. It is a combination of things and it is visual too which is something I always see as a bonus.
     

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    And if you ask my opinion about blogging and this course I can say that even though sometimes I was very busy and maybe got stuck writing a post(first time blogger😅), I can genuinely say that it was a really good experience. I enjoyed seeing new ways to teach and learn. I loved seeing and making examples. I enjoyed doing collaborative works. As a future teacher I am convinced now that integrating technology in your lesson can make a difference and it is really important to see when it can make a difference and really using it at the right time, in the right way. I hope I can develop myself starting with the knowledge I've gained through this course and manage to teach rightfully.

  And this is where I want to talk to the students that will take this course next year, even though the tasks seem to be the hard part of this course, they can really teach you things and make you see different aspects. So I can suggest you to use this course and gain as much as you 
can from it.

   And lastly here is a quote I have posted before and something that our teacher emphasized, so I thought it would be nice to repeat one of the most important things we have learned in this course again and end my post with it.

"If you are not going to change pedagogy, then technology use makes no significant difference." (Mishra and Koehler)

                

  Thank you for reading my posts, I hope you enjoyed and learned :)

Goodbye👋