FINAL POST

  And here is the end of this journey. I am writing my final post on this blog. I want to share my thoughts and feelings about my experiences.

 I wrote this blog for academic purposes and, when I started I was shy and did not know what to write or how to carry out the tasks. I had no motivation to do those things because the idea of doing all of them seemed hard for me. However, now when I looked what I have done thus far,  my projects and tasks, I am proud of myself. Each task taught me how can get information from various ways and sources. Also, I learned how to use all of this information properly to improve myself and my skills in technology use. I saw that producing something by using technology is very easy and useful because there are a lot of sources, websites, and tools to help you. Even if some of the tasks were challenging and hard to do for me like podcasting because I hate hearing my voice, I really had fun during the process and after seeing my product. I feel satisfied because I can see my improvement and create an idea about how can use technology in my classes when I become a teacher. Most of my teachers barely use technology in our courses so I did not realize that technology can be used in various ways for teaching and enhance our understanding for better learning.

Thank you for reading so far, I hope you enjoy it.

DIGITAL POSTER

 My final project in this blog is creating a digital poster. Our instructor gave us a number of topic options and wanted us to choose one of them. I chose to make an educational magazine cover to match my blog's concept. I used Canva as my tool. I am accustomed to this tool so it was not hard for me to use it. I used Canva to create a personal planner, it is very useful because there is as a lot of themes and templates. This task was enjoyable to make because it was easy and fun. I searched for some magazine cover examples about my topic to have an idea. I found visuals and ideas to create my magazine cover. I used one of the templates on Canva, and it made easier my work. This experiment was fun and interesting. I really enjoy it when I make a visual project because I like to create things and make them aesthetic. Also, I want to improve my skills in using these tools and websites that make me creative. 

If you want to see my poster on Canva you can find it here. 

DIGITAL STORY TELLING

  This week, our task was to make a digital story for our Educational Technologies class. I worked with my peers on this project. At first, I felt a bit anxious about the task because I had no idea about how to make a comic or an animated video. It was the first time that I make a digital story.

  

  At the beginning of our experiment, we discussed our topic and decided what to do. We were so confused about it. After we made our decision, we write a script and then started to figure out the website we used. In this task, our tool was Pixton. The website has a lot of choices and opportunities to use while making the comic so our anxiety is reduced. We really had a lot of fun and enjoy the experiment. The hard part of the task was recording voices because we were not enough comfortable with changing our voices to match our characters in the story. We constantly laughed at each other and had to record it over again. In the end of all things, we really made a great job. To be honest this experiment was interesting for me because I love making videos and editing them. This task helped me to find new and useful tools that can improve my skills. In the future, I can use digital storytelling to enhance my students' understanding and widen their horizons.

I am thankful to my peers Sude Nur Şahin and Gülbeyaz Karaca to work cooperatively and support each other. Also, I embedded our digital story video in case you want to watch it. I hope you enjoy it.