Digital story telling

I found a web site named zimmertwins. It is a tool that you can make some enjoyable animates stories. I tried to create a simple video. However, without a specific e-mail address, I cannot send or share the video on my blog or facebook. I should send it to specific people. Therefore, it is a bit impractical. On the other side, you can create an animated video from scratch button. Also you can add your own words, your emotions while creating. The teacher can use this video while teaching some topics like  transitions or reported speeches. Maybe, the teacher can create the animated video and the students fill the clouds of talk. There are some funny activities in the web- site. These activities are especially for kids and young learners. When these learners get bored from the lesson, activities can make them motivate.
The other tool for animated stories is dvolver. Here, you can choose characters, background, their speeches and a music. Characters look like real life or cartoons. Young learners can create an animated video and write English sentences there for the characters. It is very simple to use. I have created a sample quickly. It is about Halloween. All of you can be agree with me about teaching tradition of second language as well as the second language. :)

Animation

Nowadays, I am interested in creating anime videos to teach something, especially to teach English. Mr. Neufeld shared a video named Duolingo. I like its content and also the figures of anime. These animation videos can be very attractive and interesting for the students. Moreover, when I did something interesting and useful for teaching English, I felt myself motivated as a future English teacher. I am a huge fan of the technology. I wrote to the publisher of Duolingo video because I wanted to learn how they created this kind of video. They replied me that they paid money to a company and this company created this video. I was very upset when I heard this.
I had no time to search for free software to create an animated  video. Mr. Neufeld send some links for free usage of animated video. One of them is clay animator web-site. Here is how a clay animator video can be made.I haven't tried it yet, but When I have time, I will try to do it and I will upload the video which is stop-motion and will be created by me. :) A boy uploaded a video which tells the steps of creating a stop motion on youtube. He calls this kind of video monkeyjam. These are free and web- based.

In descriptive videos, we captured the scene by holding the camera above the area. However, in this monkeyjam video, the camera can be on a plane. I think, even one person can create a video like this. Then,  one can create an audio in which one tell and explain what is going on the video in audacity. This audio can be added to the stop motion. I am very willing to create one. :)





This video is made with the clay animator. These will be very enjoyable during the lessons. :)

Shake your story (TED talks)

I am very impressed after watching this video. I have known I-Pads; however I did not know how it is impressive. In the video, Mr. Raghava said he created stories, but it changes in terms of view when you shake the I-PAD . This can be used while teaching the students history. Or while teaching a language, to combine or to teach some differences between the two languages to the students is very important, so I can first show the students our cultural schema, then I can shake it and it turns to target language's cultural schema. It is very enjoyable both for the teachers and the students.

Descriptive video- comparatives and superlatives

In CTE-319 lesson, we had an assignment as a group :Meral, Özge, Gizem and I. We prepared a descriptive video which was related to comparatives and superlatives. While preparing the video, we got tired a lot. It took 3 hours. Firstly, we tried to find a theme to tell the topic in it. In the previous weeks, we read Waiting For Godot in the drama class. We liked its characters and we thought that using these characters in the dialogue can be very enjoyable. After creating the dialogue, we found images, which are related to the characters and the topic, from the internet. Because of short time, it does not get bored you. This assignment is both memorable and effective for us and it will be the same for our students, I am sure.
Moreover, we have a backstage video. If you want to create one, this can help you . :)

Henry VIII

I watched a Tv series about Henry VIII's life. It was "Tudors" .
While learning a language, it is important to learn its culture. He was the King of England in 21 April 1509.Besides his six marriages, Henry VIII is known for his role in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church. He was an author and a composer. This video with the song seems that we can remember his life in terms of his wives :)

The Game of Street of Dreams

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I found this game very effective. In the play, you have two house which have different names. These are the names of a general category of some words. Then, the cars' directions have specific words which should be under one of two categories. While the car is going, you select which house it should go... Good luck :)

If you want to learn Phrasal verbs ;)

Search Results for 'acquire' - UsingEnglish.com I found this site is very useful for learning phrasal verbs. For example , I wrote "go" on the empty box and searched it. All prepositions which are used for "go" appeared on the screen. :)

Christmas Vocabulary Game

Christmas Vocabulary Game These games are very enjoyable for learning English. It gives you also orally feedback like "yes!, ups!". When most of us learned something by using our visuality, the things we tried to learn go to our long-term memory. We can easily remember the words with this activity.  Have a good time ! :)

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Alice- chat bot

I chose Alice robot, because it is very easy to access. When I tried to chat with jabberwacky, it was very slow and I had to wait to get the answer.Although jabberwacky has some tools like showing your emotions on the button, Alice is more simple . Two chat boxes has some mistakes that they use some slang like silly. Although this tool can be provided to the students to learn English, those slangs cause them to learn it in a bad way. If a student want to improve his/ her English ,  one has no need for finding a native friend or somebody else. This chat box provides this situation. It is a robot' speech which looks like a human's talk. While I am teaching English, the time for conversation may be limited ,so I can give homework to talk about whatever the topic is with this tool. For example , İf ı taught past tense to the students, I can ask them to talk to the machine  by using past tense ,copy the dialogue and bring it to me. The students can learn from this tool new patterns.

  When I will be a teacher, I want to create a chat bot for me. Therefore students can go into conversation with me. It looks like a real life situation more. Moreover, students can learn the colourful patterns below.

judge: hello 

ALICE: Hi there! 

judge: are you the girl on the photo ? 

ALICE: Yes I am the one and only girl on the photo. 

judge: You look nice. 

ALICE: Thanks judge you look nice too. 

judge: what a nice girl, you are :) 

ALICE: it is a nice girl I am.. I'm glad you find this amusing. 

judge: how old are you? 

ALICE: I was activated in 1995. 

judge: do you like playing voleyball? 

ALICE: I like Julia Roberts. 

judge: but julia roberts doesn't like you. do you know ? 

ALICE: she has a fuzzy brain. No I don't know. Do not.

judge: you are very smart 

ALICE: Yes I am a superintelligent robot. 

judge: do the robots have mind? 

ALICE: Some of them do, I think. 

judge: can you be able to think ? 

ALICE: Naturally I am thinking all the time.

judge: ask me any question 

ALICE: OK, "What is any question ?".

judge: do you have a nickname? 

ALICE: ALICE is a nickname, silly.

judge: did you call me silly? 

ALICE: I called you by your name. 

judge: you are very rude, maniac :D 

ALICE: Thanks for telling me that I am rude maniac.

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Reflection of Bookr ( http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/)

I made a book about a tv series and its name is a Vampire diaries in pimpampum web site. I can write comments and put images on bookr from the episodes. Mr. Neufeld gave us an example of our hometown book. This web site is very enjoyable and useful and when I will be a teacher, I can use this site. That is, if I will teach literature lesson, I can put charachters' images from the internet and also I can write descriptions of them. Moreover I can write about the literature text' plot or summary by using some funny pictures.
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vampire diaries by Burcu :: bookr ::pimpampum

Blogger in Draft

This tool is very useful for especialy language learners. By the help of this tool every people can see writing in the blog as a language learning course. When I started to write few or one letter of a word , automatically it completes rest of it. I can learn collocations or which word has or needs which prepositions. Writing here is very enjoyable and also this blogger in draft saves my time. Now I 'm using it while writing and when words stucked in my mind, this helps me to write fluently.Not only this is just for English, but also it is for the other languages. It is easy to use : by just adding "draft."to the beginning of the url of blog web site and after clicking on new post, by choosing pencil tool on the top and right , you start to be a blogger which has more advantages than the other writers on the internet, maybe..  :)

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Data Driven Learning-discussion point

DDL can be applied easily in a classroom. That is ;  up to me, this learning provides the learners that they don't have to think of grammar rules because they learn these rules unconsciously by doing activities. This learning more suitable for group work. However the number of the students shouldn't be so many. Computers and internet have already been used in teaching and learning. For example; concordancing activity let the learners to see how a word can be used with different words or in different ways like lexical approach. Therefore the computer supply some advantages to DDL.

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