MY FINAL BLOG POST!

Hi everyone!

Today I will be talking about my Educational Technologies course journey and my thoughts on this term.

First of all, I'm glad that I took this course. When I first saw this course name, I thought that it is probably one of the typical courses that offer subjects such as using Microsoft Word, Excel, and so on. It definitely shocked me when I found out that this course has many creative, productive, and useful subjects to offer. Before taking this class, I would only think that technology can only be integrated by using certain apps or popular websites and social media platforms such as Edmodo, YouTube, Zoom, PowerPoint, Duolingo, and British Council. I still think that these are useful apps and websites but now I know that there are MANY OTHERS! This course literally made me realise that I'm not aware of how many opportunities we have with the integration of technology. I also realised that I can benefit from technology more while I'm learning.

This term we had many tasks and my favourites are digital storytelling and podcasting. I love narrating and vocalising and I had the chance to personalize my work while doing these tasks. I generally love the tasks in which I can reflect on my own thoughts. I love it when my tasks are authentic.

My least favourite task is the padlet task because we had to choose certain topics and they generally didn't allow me to reflect on myself while doing it. However, I still liked it as the tool itself was useful and inspired me to use it while doing other tasks.

For me, group tasks were the best tasks of all, and maybe adding more collaborative tasks to the course plan might improve it.

I am so glad that I had the chance to meet with these tools and tasks and to have my own blog. I sincerely appreciate my professor, Dr. Kurt for her lovely lectures, creative tasks, and all her efforts.

Thank you for visiting my blog!

Please feel free to contact me if you have any ideas, questions, and comments.

Goodbye!

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