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Hey everybody!

In this post I will be writing about my experience of making my first poscast. It may sound difficult at first but when you understand it you can do it easily.

I must say at first it scared me. I didn't know how to make a podcast or even what podcast is. Shame on me! After learning about podcast in my course relieved me. It gave me an idea about what to do. Then I thought it was very easy thing to do but after trying do make the perfect podcast changed my mind. It was horrible because I didn't like what I heard but it was also funny because it was amusing to see myself trying. Eveytime I thought I did the perfect one I'd realized I ruined it by sneezing or frozing while talking.

In the future, I will definilitly use podcasting with my students but of course not without my help. I wouldn't want them to suffer like I did. The reason for this I find podcasting very helpful for learners especially shy learners because I believe they will find comfort in podcasting. Since they won't see whom they are talking to they will be comfortable and this can help them in face to face conversations.

So chech out my interesting podcast about making the world better place.

P.S. I made it all by myself!

Hello folks!

Technology has a very important place in our everyday lives but when it comes to education that is a whole different story. It can be help us with teaching or it can be harmful. It’s up to us to make teaching with technology beneficial.

In my opinion technology is a great tool for us so we should make the best of it. We should do whatever it takes to make easier our teaching so students can learn easier and make the knowledge permanent. I must say teaching with technology has many advantages. Such as, as we talking about we can open up a PowerPoint presentation to guide us, or for students a presentation can help them to keep up with lesson. Moreover when teaching about a place or an architecture we can show students their pictures of it since we can’t take them everywhere in the world it would be best option. But also technology has disadvantages too. It can be too distracting for the students or instead of learning they can use technology to play games, watch cartoon, movie or a TV series. To prevent this we must use technology successfully.

Technology usually integrated into teaching trough presentation and listening activities but there are lots of ways to integrate technology into our teaching. In our country we don’t use technology as much as we should. We just use some presentations and call it teaching with technology! I think we should use technology because we are in a century that everything involves technology so if we teach with technology we would be preparing students to the life after school.

There are lots of different types of teacher in the world but at the same time all the teachers are the same so I am going to be different than other teacher but also the same as them. I view myself as a teacher who seeks out new ways to use technology for my teaching because we’re in the century of opportunities. As a candidate I must learn, search and improve my knowledge to help myself in the future.

Hello friends,

Hello my dear visitors,

I’m Emine Nur Kalyoncu. I’m 20 years old and I study English Language Teaching at Marmara University and it’s my second year. I like watching tv series, visiting museums and nature parks, travel, reading books about fantasy, crime and science-fiction and teaching of course. My biggest dream is to be a great teacher and seeing the world. So I hope you stick with me on this journey if you do I would be grateful.

Emine -xx

This week our assignment was to create a Twitter account and report back how we found the experience. I have a personal twitter, and have had it for eight years now. I started my account when I was in high school and mostly interact with my peers from those years and friends I've made throughout college. I decided rather than worrying about how my tweets/retweets would be perceived, it'd be better just to create a new account, specifically in the light of being a developing, young professional. It was a jarring experience to go from interacting with people I know personally, that I am allowed to joke with and challenge, to being prim and proper. I hope to become more comfortable in this realm of professional development as time goes on. I am still working on becoming more involved in teaching groups and conversations, but seeing as I am still a teaching candidate, I am more than wiling to sit back and soak up the knowledge from more experienced teachers.

With all of these nine 21st century literacies being defined, signified and applied to practice it is evident that each literacy works to fulfill some aspect of preparing a well-rounded 21st century citizen for their future civic engagement in society. Furthermore, it can be noted that not all literacies will be taught or applied in the same way, however it is possible for certain learning opportunities to allow for the intersection of several literacies to be built upon at once.

For instance, if cross-curricular lessons are developed, and subsequent final cumulative products are assigned, this can allow for multiple literacies to be embedded within their learning. Similar to the curriculum unit that we developed for this course in EDUC 4P28 that required multiple curriculum and 21st century literacies to be interconnected within lessons and the final rich performance task product, this strategy of lesson planning and teaching is something I will carry with me into my teaching career due to its multiple opportunities for learning that shapes not only an academically educated student, but well rounded holistically in all aspects covered through the Ontario Ministry of education curriculum and these 21st century literacies for the 21st century learner. 

With that being said, I feel that this course was the most beneficial throughout my university career in preparing me for how I will design my future lessons, assignments and assessment tools with the incorporation of the 21st century literacies as apart of curricular and pedagogical approaches, as well as using assessment FOR, AS and OF learning throughout the process to ensure the most effective support and development for my students. 

Not gonna lie, my first couple of questions (as a member of the social studies group) were all about the hiring process. Do you take the first job you’re offered, even if it doesn’t seem like it would be a good fit, or wait for one that might be better? (Take it.) How long did it take you to get hired as a full-time social studies teacher? (A long time.)

And their biggest piece of advise: get a minor. Everyone wants to teach social studies because it’s awesome. I’m doing an English minor and they said that should work really well. One of the teachers was also dual SS/ELA and said some years he’s taught all English and others all social studies, so having the dual endorsements was a good career move for him.

I really enjoyed it. I love our professor, but he’s just one teacher, and at this point in the process, not many of us have experienced other teachers (barring the ones we had when we were in school, of course). It was interesting to see their different personalities, and one of the biggest pieces of advice the group as a whole had was to be yourself, because the kids know when you’re not being genuine. There’s not one teacher personality, or one certain way a teacher dresses or acts, which seems obvious but can be difficult to internalize this early in the process.

In other news, this quarter is a lot more work than I thought. I’m working 15 hours a week, volunteering 3 hours a week, taking 17 credits in the form of 5 different classes, staying active in 2 clubs, and trying to go to church every Sunday. I ended up dropping my Weight Watchers membership—it kept getting pushed farther and farther down on my list of priorities and I couldn’t justify the $50 monthly fee.

Also, I wrote my first TPA today. We’ve been building up to it in my assessment class, working on the individual components until we mastered them, but this was the first full TPA we’ve done. I know mine’s not perfect but we’re critiquing them in class on Tuesday so I’m looking forward to that.