Hey Kids Have You Heard Zimmertwins?

Zimmertwins ; The moment I had realized the content of this site I shocked for a while because it was so funny to create some animations.I will be talking about my experiences but let me give you some informations about the Zimmertwins.

The Zimmer Twins is a Canadian animated series and children website.The project was created by producer Jason Krogh in 2005.In this website kids tell their stories by choosing actions, characters, props and backgrounds.They can also add their own dialogue and on -screen text.

When I was a child I used to watch cartoons.As I met with this site I remembered the oldish moments and I liked it.The children of that generation is so lucky because they have a chance to create their own cartoons by adding their unique imagination power in this site.There is just one question raise in our minds. What if we adjust this website to the childrens education ?

Answer is easy.The producers of this website also thought about children, www.zimmertwinsatschool.com is developed for them.Children can roam in the website and by the help of the teachers they can benefit a lot when they spend time in it.Also, teachers can give homeworks to them and thanks to the entertaining content you can not hear any complain.

I'm using the zimmertwins and I will be used for a long time.If you want to create new something I strongly recommend to you,too.

Have fun :)

Digital Age Digital Storytelling

Hello everyone !

World is changing in a dramatic way and of course the effect of this change mostly reflect on technology.People used to narrate stories to their friends but nowadays they are choosing the new way :Digital Storytelling.

This week me and my dear friend Seçil Tosun worked together to create a digital storytelling project.At first, we wrote the story but it went complicated because we paid attention to make something different and unique.After that we started to search some pictures on the net for making the characters of the story.Then the most difficult process began, voice recording.Actually, if we are to speak the truth I hate recording something because even the single mispronunciation spoils everything.After long struggles we succed it.We made some drawings and animations and finally uploaded the video on youtube.

In making of that task we used a ''Aero Playlist'' software and thanks to program we could play the two song at the same time and without it we couldn't made anything.For the video part we preffered a ''Moviemaker''.Everybody knows the quality and reputation of that program so I'm just mentioning on it

I'm definitely agree and support the collaborative working because that kind of tasks required multiple skills and single person cant handle with whole task alone. 

I strongly recommend the digital storytelling to all the students because language development gets fast double when the visionary and auditory materials combine.So, the storytelling contain both the elements.

Here is our storytelling video, have fun :):)

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ROAM SIMPLY and SATISFY

Hello, everyone ! Here is the new term entered to our lives "RSS" which means "Really Simply Syndication". It helps us access the update posts of our following blogs. Furthermore, with the help of RSS, we have an advantage of quick and effective roaming annd good conclusions. When we look at the brief development of RSS, we can see that it is getting more popular day by day. RSS use the rss and xml formats. I prefer to use online feedreaders to reach to more posts about educational teaching ways.

Here it is:







There is a number of Rss' about education but I chose the Özge Karaoğlu's page because she advices us to activitiy based language teaching, by which students can learn the language easier and don't get bored. She is an ELT writer(30 years old) and she recommends web based activities for international organizations, schools and institues. I recommend this page because for many years I observed the students and saw that they are chasing the way which is the easier or little bit funny. So, I guess Özge Karaoğlu follow the same way and that's why she can be followed. Enjoy :)


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Wikipage

Hello everyone! Today we created a wikipage with my friend Seçil Tosun. We reviewed a musical- horror movie. We spent our nearly a day to finish it successfully. In that day, firstly we talked about the film, its musical energy and detailed analysis. After that we collaborated on writing a review. Due to the cut network problem, we had some difficulties. It is useful to work with a partner because it is impossible to hande with that task by yourself. On the other hand, I recommend wikipages to the all teachers because with the help of wikipages, students could express their ideas freely and the followers can read the posts. Only  disadvantage of wikis is that anyone can delete our task accidentally. But if you are careful enough, there is no problem. Have fun!



You can read it from here



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Podcasting

Hi everyone! Here is my first podcast. Me and my partner Seçil Tosun worked so hard to produce this effective podcast. It is for intermediate students. That kind of podcast helps students to create their own stories. So I strongly recommend to all teacher candidates to work with this kind of tools. While me and my partner creating the podcast, we experinced a numerous thing. We searched a lot of places to record clear sounds. Otherwise while adding the sound effects we dealt with nearly an hour. But I want to say with all my heart that despite all these difficulties, we realized that it was worth it!


Record music with Vocaroo >>

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Learn and Fun, Everything Is Done!

Learning is an endless process, isn't it? We are confronting with a numerous information in our daily life. When we think about the quality and benefits of those information, we see that we are using only a minimal percent of it. So, I am here to introduce you with real and specific posts. By subscribing me, you can reach to a funny and necessary posts, photos and a lot of videos.




Let's get it started!


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