CREATING A TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED PROJECT FROM A CLASSIC COURSEBOOK

Hello my dear readers! As you understand from the title, this week me and my friend İzel were given a coursebook and asked to choose an end of the unit project to turn it into a technology-enhanced project. 

The picture above is the original project given in the coursebook. It requires printing out pictures, scissors, colorful pens and cardboards, and if this was a group project the students would also need to come together. Thanks to technology integration, students only need a technological device and internet, nothing else. Moreover, they can do collaborative work online which we understood the necessity of it in this pandemic time.

The handout above is the one that we created. We wanted the design to be catchy and the instructions short and clear. To show them how to use Padlet we recorded a screen casting video and attached it to the handout via ARize and gave its link as well. Here you can watch the video. ⇩

How to use Padlet from İzel Gür on Vimeo.

In this task, we were free to choose the project, how to design it and which web tool to integrate. Therefore it enabled us to use all the information that we have learned throughout the semester and improved a necessary skill for being a teacher in 21st century which is being creative.