My Wiki Project : My Favourite Book (1984 by George Orwell)

Hello my dear readers! I am back with a new project : Our Favourite Books in Wikispace. In this project, we were supposed to introduce a best-loved book of ourselves and write a brief summary about it, and finally add some photos or videos if possible. For this project I chose "1984" and gave the plot in my wiki paper.

 It is the first time for me to do such an activity, in the past of course I wrote summaries of books but they were just evaulated by my teacher but for Wikispace, everyone who has an acces to internet can see my paper, and they can even change it if I allow, So, I think it is very advantageous because people can add their knowledge and show what they know, in this way we can create an enviroment in which everyone can say something! But if you do not want this, you can keep it private and it is very easy. From this point I find using Wikispace very helpful. It can be applied in classrooms very easily for different purposes. You can ask your students write about their favourite books just like we did or you select a book to read then start a discussion on Wikispace about that book, everyone write their ideas and then talk about it in the classroom. Therefore, it can be used to develop students' writing skills as well as their critical thinking because they can both write their ideas and read others'.

If we talk about disadvantages of it, I can see almost no disadvantage except from students who cannot use internet or do not have a connection but today, internet is very common and I do not think it will be an important problem, Another disadvantage might be that it is open to change by everyone, that is; other people delete, remove, add or modify your post but this can be solved with the settings.

You can find my Wiki Project in this link, hope you will enjoy! :)

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>>>1984 by George Orwell<<<

Mysterious Box (Podcast)

Today , I`m sharing with you my podcast that I prepared with my partner, Kübra. In our podcast, we vocalized a story written by us. We tried to embellish it with sounds and effects, hope we managed to do! In our story, there are two girls who found a mysterious box in front of their doors at a very late hour. Listen and learn the mystery about the box and find out what happens to girls! :)

As you know, in today`s world, the tehchnology is improving day by day and it becomes an inseparable part of our lives so we cannot keep ourselves from using technology in our classrooms. Podcast is the one of the best ways to integrate this technology to the learning environment. I found it very heplful for learners, especially for language learners because with the help of podcasts, students have a chance to listen a sound again again, wherever they are and whenever they want. They can improve their pronounciations in this way. Also, recording a podcast is very easy (you can do it even with your mobile phone) and it can reach whoever come across it.

But if you are recording a podcast, it is very important to have a native-like accent as your students can learn the pronounciation correctly and you must find a  silent area, We had difficulties in these two aspects, but it was very enjoyable in general. :)

Welcome!

Hi, welcome to my blog! I am Ecenur. This is my first blog and first post so i want to share some personal information about me. I am 20 and a student at Marmara University. My department is English Language Teaching. From now on,i will try to share anything that i can find in the field of English Language Teaching. So, i hope you will enjoy my blog and learn a lot from it. :)