IN CONCLUSION

Hello my dear readers! All this term I talked about Web 2.0 tools to use in the classroom. Here, in this post I put an infographic to show my favorites. All have limited free usage and a lot of amazing affordances . Not only from affordances perspective but also when I look from a student's eyes they are the most entertaining  and useful Web 2.0 tools. 

To create this infographic and the magazine cover under this post, I used Canva as well. You can create a infographic, magazine cover, flyer, CV, wallpaper and many more. If you want to learn more about Canva you can read my post below.

The other tool Padlet is the one that I created my climate change KWL chart with. It is so easy and fun to use. To see different ways to use it in the classroom go to my "Online Way of "Write on a Sticky Note and Put It on the Wall" Activity"
 post.

Most of my friends' favorite is also Pixton. It is so colorful and full of features. You can find all the clothes and all the expressions that you want. You can even create a character which exactly looks like you. I'm sure it will be one of your students' favorite as well.

Please leave your favorite Web 2.0 tools as a comment. I am looking forward to explore more!

A TASK TO IMPROVE CREATIVITY

Hello my dear readers! As you see above this week our task was creating a magazine cover. Our teacher left the choice of the theme to us. I preferred to crate a beauty- fashion magazine. Because we are in the end of December, to make it accurate I talked about Christmas, new year and the recently released Netflix series.

I especially liked this task because it didn't need a lot of technological skills and it was more of a visual work. Having the freedom to choose the theme of the magazine made the task more enjoyable as well.

I used Canva as the tool to create this magazine cover. One of the reasons why I preferred Canva is because it is easy to use and it has a lot of free templates. Another affordance is that it allows you to download the product as PDF or PNG or JPG without any payment.

If you are looking for a task which improves creativity as well as English skills, this task will be the one students enjoy. Don't forget to consider that young learners will need guidance in terms of finding the right tool and using it.

I hope you liked my first magazine cover and this task idea. If you have creative task ideas please leave it as a comment! 

IT IS POSSIBLE TO RAISE SOCIAL AWARENESS WHILE IMPROVING YOUR ENGLISH

Hello my dear readers! You are seeing an example of digital storytelling above. Our teacher gave us three options to choose. These were creating a public service announcement, a how-to story or a fictional story. Me, my friends Izel and Aleyna decided to create a PSA about depression. 

PSAs are designed to raise awareness on important issues while disseminating information quickly and efficiently. They enable learners to actively participate in a project that will allow them to become stewards of and advocates for social change. Hence, creating a PSA will be a task that students enjoy and a different genre they can use their English in. 

While me and my friends were creating our PSA, doing research and writing the text was the easy part but editing took so long. Matching the sentences with the right visual and editing the timing was really tiring. Nevertheless, seeing the outcome was satisfying.

To see an example of a modern and different homework for second language learners and also to learn more about depression please watch our PSA. Don't forget to share it with your friends to inform them about one of the biggest health issues of our era.