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The saddest of posts: Farewell time!

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from here Hello again, my dear readers, my dear friends beyond readers! We've been like a family here for two years. We learned a lot of good and useful things together. Now it's time to say goodbye. Before saying goodbye, with your permission, I would like to briefly explain the difficulties and contributions of this course to me.  In this Material Design in ELT course given to us by our dear teacher Gökçe, at the beginning of the term, I was quite afraid that I would not be able to cope with the projects we were going to do. But I think that we managed the lesson as best we could, thanks to the help of our teacher and the cooperation of my friends. Through this course, I learned many useful and entertaining materials that I will use for my students in my future teaching career. While doing this, I also learned how to solve a problem when faced with it. Because when designing materials, more than one problem arises, but you also learn to deal with them over time. Also, sharing...

WebQuest as a lifesaving tool!

 Yes, my dear friends, after two or three weeks of separation, we came together again. 😍 I hope everything went well for you during our time apart. If you ask me, I got pretty tired as we approached the end of the term.😔 But do not worry, I will get rid of my tiredness with the topic of our project this week, which I will tell you about. I know you've been looking forward to it... 👀  Yes, this week's topic is WebQuests! Let's first get to know what WebQuest is, as we always do. WebQuest is a learning activity designed for students to research a topic, gather information, and present results using internet resources. As a learning strategy that enables students to be actively involved in the research and learning process, WebQuests also helps teachers increase student interest and engagement.  Now it's time for how we designed our WebQuest. First of all, we chose the 8th unit Emergency and Health Problems unit, which we want to focus on, from the preparatory book of t...