Instructional Technologies

 In this week's lesson, we talked about MALL , an abbreviation for  Mobile-assisted Language Learning . The meaning of this phrase is receiving education from small mobile devices/smartphones.  This way of learning has many redeeming features and positive gainings. The conveniences are, according to Agnes Kukulska-Humme and Olga Viberg (2018) , being accessible anywhere and anytime, personalization, active participation, peer-coaching, etc. It also helps with motivation and enjoyment as well as the reduction of anxiety during language classes.  However, this learning form has negative aspects too. Students are more likely to get distracted by their phones, have safety concerns, or face technical issues; therefore, decreasing the chances of receiving high-quality lessons. Then we mentioned applications/websites to use in order to help the learner improve in speaking skills. Some of which are Duolingo, Voicethread, Twitter, video editing apps, WhatsApp , etc. Using th...

We started our lesson by joining Mr. Karacan's padlet  presentation. Like we do every week, we started by reviewing our previous lessons' topics; Web 1.0 - 2.0 - 3.0, the statistics we discussed in week 2, etc. While reviewing our former lessons we also analyzed padlet  and learned about what does it do + how to use it. We examined the site and a presentation made for 4th graders. After that, we went on with Google Docs and checked the interactivity by writing a story 😀. The other sites/applications we checked during the lesson are listed below: - Dropbox Paper :  A website/application that can be shared with others and work as a group by writing simultaneously. - Slack: An interactive software - Evernote/OneNote/Notion: Applications students & teachers can use to take notes. After these, we checked websites that help with  Automated Writing .  We tried Grammarly and checked  ProWritingAid, LangaugeToo . Apparently, these websites/extensions/appl...