My Friendly Podcast

 

                                                                             from here 
Welcome back to my blog, my dear readers! In this week's educational technologies lesson, we covered what podcasts are, how they are used in language teaching, why we use them. While listening skill is of great importance in understanding and comrehending that language in foreign language learning and teaching, somestimes it may not stand out as much as other skills such as speaking,writing. However, listening skill is the first language skill we have used since our infancy. Thanks to te podcasts that emerged with the development of the tecnology, we can listen to many things according to our interests and contribute to our second language learning wherever we are. In addition,we can also record podcasts on any topic we want to talk about and improve our speaking skills. 

As homework, our lecturer also asked us to record podcasts and gave us a few options. I preferred the street interview-like vov-pop podcast type, where you record the answers by asking a specific question of your own choosing. First of all, we sat in a cafe with our group of four friends and drew lots, as we had to work in pairs. Recording podcasts sounded great fun even in the beginning of the task. Melisa and I became a team and after a long struggle, we decided on the question we would ask people. The question " Would you like to be friends with yourself ?" caught the attention of both of us, and we recorded our podcasts with the lucky (😁) people on our school's campus and our own friends. We have so much fun doing the task that we even consider doing it for fun every now and then, whether it's assignment or not. 

As a future english teacher, of course, I would like my students to record their own podcasts beacuse I think podcasts have many contribitions not only in terms of language skills, listening and speaking, but also in terms of being creative and socializing. 

Thanks for your attention! Now, it's time to listen our podcast !!! (We chose our background music as the generic music of my favorite series Friends, in order to be compatible with the subject of our topic.)


Thanks to my friends and people we don't know before who help us for their contributions:

🌈 My Partner in this task Melisa Kamacı  https://melisakmc.blogspot.com/
🌈 Aygül Mukymova 
🌈 Sena Börekoğlu 
🌈 Merve Karakoç
🌈 Fatma Nur Bektaş 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Get ready to party: Flipped-teaching material!

Image
 Hello to all of you, my dear readers, with a new week and new material! This week I will tell you about our adventure of preparing flipped-teaching material. But before that, I would like to inform you about what flipped teaching is. Flipped teaching is a training method that brings a contrary perspective to the teaching and homework approach we are accustomed to. As we all know, in the traditional method, we work on the subject during the lesson and then we do our homework on that subject at home. On the other hand, in the flipped teaching model, while students learn a new subject related to the lesson at home through online videos or tools provided by the teachers, it is assumed that they know the subject when they come to the lesson, and it is aimed to reinforce that subject in collaboration, discussions, and projects. Moreover, if we take a look at the benefits of flipped teaching, it can help students explore their own learning, and increase student-teacher interaction as the...
Read more

From Past to Present: The Place of Technology in Language Learning

Image
 Hello again to all of you my dear blog and dear readers! I hope everything is fine since we met. We will fill my blog, which was filled with all the materials we made in our Educational Technologies course last year, with fun materials we designed in the English Instructional Technologies and Material Design course this year. We started our lesson by looking at the history of technology in education and language learning. Our post and task today will be related to this. We will look at how technology has gained a place in language education from the past to the present by integrating the knowledge we have learned with what we have learned in the course. We were asked to do this in the form of a timeline in the most memorable way. While I was creating my timeline, I used Canva, which offers countless different content and possibilities. I reinforced what I learned while doing this task, there were things that I enjoyed but had difficulty with. One of them was that I couldn't embed ...
Read more

We will learn a lot with it: A Corpus Based Material!

Image
 Hello again, my dear readers! This week we are together again with a very different material. We have been working on Corpus-based material with our lecturer for 2 weeks. So now you're going to ask, "What is a Corpus?" Let me explain right away. Corpus is a large collection of texts that are systematically selected and stored as an electronic database. And this database is often used in linguistics to validate rules.  Integrating corpus into language education and lessons as teachers will provide many benefits for our students' language learning processes. Students who know how to use corpus will be able to learn the smallest detail about the words that confuse them, and they will be able to easily understand a grammar subject they have difficulty with thanks to the many examples presented in corpus programs. Of course, as useful as using a corpus can be, it can be quite confusing at first. This is exactly what we are asked to do today: To prepare material for our st...
Read more