if you could visit my wiki and leave your comments here, I'd be grateful ... There is still a lot to add, not a fully complete wiki...

my new glog

here is the glog
I've prepared for the courses I am currently teaching

forget about blogging?

I am a glogger !!!now....:)

pages are waiting to be filled in though...

coming soon.....:)

news

I have been interested in digital storytelling for a while. This is what I have tried with my little daughter Asya... It was just to check how the tool works and of course to have some fun with Asya :) . and below is the product of another tool. you upload a photo and record your voice on it. I think it is better than "little bird tales" because you can directly embed the product; therefore, the reader + listener (as I have visual- storytelling in my mind, I say so) doesn't have to reach the material through another website, but via your blog or online classroom.

Survey

I am going on practicing the teachings of our webcourse...

As I noted before, my students came together and wrote their webquest final product in the classroom. This happened last Friday.

I am now working on the last touches. Yesterday, I sent a 10-item- questionnaire to my students through Surveymonkey, today a few responses have come. Out of six students, 5 of them checked the option questioning the effectivity of webtools in increasing motivation as agree and strongly agree, which is a desired attitude.

Next week, fall term is closing and I am planning to administer an open-ended questionnaire in Turkish this time. SurveyMonkey is an effective tool, but limiting the survey with 10 questions leaves lots of blanks between the lines . Therefore, I intend to fill in those blanks with a set of open-ended questions investigating the strengths and weaknesses of the course, materials and the interactive webtools employed.

Autonomous Learners ???

Today....
I asked my students what they would think about an opportunity to increase their course grade- the class average is really low and I want them to improve that.This is an elective course and a failing grade is not something desired -
The class was full of murmuring, some asked if I was planning to assign an easy task, or give a simple quiz or else.I told them my intention was to administer a vocabulary quiz which would take up 15-20 % of the general grade.This time some even dared to say "why don't we decide after seeing the quiz results ????"
-I was going to prepare an exam for 41 students, copy them, distribute them, grade them and then if they didn't feel satisfied.....I was not going to do anything but put them away !!!
Then one of them said "Teacher please don't ask but do what you think is good for us"
It was the moment I remembered what I had forgotten in search of encouraging learner autonomy : I was the authority; noone but only I (!!)..... was able to decide for them better than themselves. How could they know what was good for them ???
I love my job :)