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  Hello, as I mentioned on my previous post I will be informing you about the things we did this week as a group. Firstly, we decided on a day and a time to have a Zoom meeting. In our meeting, we firstly designed the task we were asked ( I attached the screenshot of the task design on my previous post.). We came up with some ideas and figure out what kind of a task would be easier yet more entertaining and informative. Then we worked on our outline for our project. Previous weeks, we decided on our topic which is Synchronous Online Distance Learning and decided on who would do which part when. So, this week only thing we had to do was creating subsets and deciding the content of each title. Everyone shared their ideas about titles and we created such a detailed, informative outline. (at least for us) Even though we wre tired, we had fun while discussing.  Later this week, I started working on my part which was introduction. I made some searches about synchronous and asynchronous learn

 Sadly I couldn't join this week's session because of health conditions. But my dear teacher uploaded the recordings of the session on Dropbox so I was able to follow what happened during the lesson. We were assigned with the article "Teaching Materials" by Matsuda (2012) before the sessions. Article basically focused on criteria for choosing materials, ELT coursebooks, selecting and creating supplemental materials. So we had knowledge about the topic beforehand like the other weeks. We were also asked to bring an ELT coursebook that we had used in our middle or high schools to make some evaluations. (I will talk about it later on.)  Firstly, in the session they were seperated into groups to discuss pre and post reading questions related to the article from assignment. I had a chance to watch all groups for few minutes thanks to the recording. Most of them, like me, believed that materials played the role of the input source. They wanted ELT materials to have more glo

 This week's topic was about digital tools. So, in the first session and the beginning of the second session we learnt about new tools to use in teaching thanks to our teacher. Tiki toki, thinglink, animoto, renderforest, edpuzzle and weebly were introduced. I had had knowledge about Thinglink before the introduction as it was included on my previous year's course. It has been one of my favourite tools since it highlights visual learning. I have always had fun while usiing Thinglink and this  is another reason for me to like it. The other tools apart from Edpuzzle  were unfamiliar to me. However, I only used Edpuzzle as a stundet and never created my own activities. So learning about it was really helpful. Tiki Toki is a timeline creating website which we thought would  be useful with teaching tenses and asking student tocreate their biographies. Learning about Weeblywas actuallyreally important for me. I, unfortunately, did not know about the process of creating a website. Whi

  The sessions were about the impact of technology on teachers and classroom environments this week. We were separated into groups of 3-4 and asked to discuss the reflection questions that we had already answered as an assignment. During the discussion we had similar answers. However, some different ideas were shared as well. For example, I hadn't thought about negative impact of technology on kids until one of our friends mentioned. Getting new ideas and seeing things from different perspectives are the reasons that I like group works. It really helps with the way that I think. For the first time in 4 weeks, we had some time left after discussion. Our discussion was quick yet eye opening for me. Also, with the left time we kind of got to know each other better. After the group discussion, we shared our ideas as groups to the whole class. One thing I realized was that every one of us were concerned about the students' access to technological tools and connectivity. Everyone inc