Education Through Podcasts!

Hello my dear fellows!

We have learned about podcasts last week in our Educational Technologies course. Therefore, I decided to talk about podcast and my experience of making a podcast.

First of all, let's talk about what podcast is. Podcast is an audio file that can be used for various purposes. We can download podcasts. Hence, we can listen to them everywhere, whenever we want! So, we can use it for educational purposes. Teachers can record themselves or make their students record it.

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In this class our teacher has wanted us to make a podcast. She has offered us 4 kinds of podcast and made us choose it. Me and my friend Sude chosen creating a Vox-pop. In this one, we decided what should be our question and then ask 10 people for their opinions. Our question was "If you could reincarnate as any animal what would it be?" and we realized that everyone thinks differently. Every person we asked explained for good reasons. 

I'd like to show you the results:

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After making the opening speech with Sude, we asked our friends our question and recorded it. I really had fun. It was also nice to hear people's approaches and opinions. I definitely use it in the future with my students. Therefore, my students will both learn to use podcasts and show their creativity. I strongly recommend you to use it with your students. 

So, it was my experience of doing a podcast. Thanks for reading!

CREATIVE PADLETS

Hello my dear fellows,

Today, I'd like to present a wall board known as "Padlet." Padlets are online board in which students and teachers can work collaboratively. Multiple people can use Padlet, and these users can post their thoughts on a certain issue on this wall. Users may also post links, videos, and photographs relating to their topic on the wall. 

Here is the logo of the wall board:

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Our teacher has wanted us to make a wall on padlet in groups. So I thought like why not share this experience with you.

First let me introduce you my friends in group:  Sude Özer, Selin Gülhan Korkusuz, Ece Keskin.

Before we start to make our padlet, we have chosen the topic out of several topics given by our teacher. Our subject is "air pollution," which, as you are all aware, is a big problem and will continue if essential action is not done.

In the wall, we have created three columns and we have named these as WHAT WE KNOW, WHAT TO KNOW and WHAT WE LEARNED respectively. In first column, we have been wanted to write what do we know about the air pollution; in the second one, we have written what do we want to know about it and in the last one we have written the answers to questions in the second column.

Now, let’s talk about my padlet experience. Our teacher has wanted us to work collaboratively. I first opened a new padlet wall, chose the background and then wrote ”what we know”. My friends added some informations on it too. We consequently completed the topic collaboratively.

In my opinion, it was really beneficial and will continue to be so. We have read articles, learnt how to use Padlet, and learned a lot about air pollution in order to find answers to our questions. Considering 21st-century learning, Padlet is very creative and is very useful for students to work collaboratively. I am convinced that I will use this wall board with my students in the future.

Click here to see our padlet completely!

My dear fellows, it was all for today.

Thank you for reading and hope to see you in my next post.

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