Monday, April 25, 2016

Preschool English for Kids

Hi! Everyone!
This week, l will introduce an app. lts name is Preschool English for kids. This is a funny, informative app and full of visuals that attract the attention of kids. When you download this app, you will hear a song and come across the below page.

When you choose a quiz, you hear the instruction and you can go on by doing what to be wanted and you take a score at the end of game. There are options that children can choose. I think it is useful to teach English for children. For example; when you click the color balls, you are supposed to find the same letter.
The other example; when you choose the letter hop, you are supposed to have the frog jump in true sequence in turn.
I think that children can learn while they are enjoying at the same time. Children can learn the basic grammer subjects while they think they are playing a game. If you want to use this app, you can find the below link: Preschool English . I hope you enjoy it. See you :)

Sunday, April 17, 2016

DIGITAL STORY PROJECT: THE WICKED SORCERESS

Hi! Dear friends!
We have a digital story project  for our Material Design and Technology lecture. I worked with my partner Gül .We have 3 options. First option is to tell this question: ''what it means to be good friends? '' in the story. Second option is to tell this process: ''HOW TO Project'' in the story and finally third option is to create a fictional story. We chose third option. We are supposed to develop characters, decide on the setting, the sequence of events, conflict, climax and resolution, write the script, prepare your storyboard, sequence the images in the video editör and finally add the narrative track. We have used a program named Storybird and discovered what we could do with it. We worked on this project together online. We had difficulties sometimes. Because we were restricted  to use pictures on the site. That is; we chose an image and we had to create the story with only the pictures on the website. But still I think it make us to create something with the restricted but so many subjects. Working collaboratively saved our time and we could see that we could create something together. I think students' creating a digital story would contribute to their foreign language development because it triggers creativity, quickly draws them into the writing process, scaffolds their progress and also simple tools keeps them on track.
Here is our digital story link: THE WICKED SORCERESS We hope you will enjoy. See you until the other post:)