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Creating a Tehnology-Enhanced Project

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Yazan:

 Hello everyone,

    Today, I will share our technology-enhanced project with you. The task was to redesign a project to make it technology-integrated. It was a group task, my teammates were Yaren and Oğuz. We chose our project from MEB's Preparatory Class Student's Book. Here are the original project steps:

  • Prepare your own poster about how to protect our nature and write your slogan on it as in the examples below.     
  • Then, present your poster to your friends.

    In the original project, there are not enough steps to explain the porject and it is not integrating any use of technology. Also, the project is not giving a chance for the students to facilitate self-learning or practice their language skills. 
    The original project involves creating a poster which is composed of a slogan and a visual.We changed it with creating an infographic which involves visuals and data. Creating an infographic requires students to do a research before, collect data and visuals to use, and present it with their own words which enables them to facilitate their language skills. Also, we gave them some options to choose, and provide them some websites to search, videos to watch in order to collect data.We narrowed down the scope of the project to prevent students from getting lost deciding on which subject to choose. 
    Also, the original project lacks "a problem" to solve. Students writes slogans to "protect our nature" but they don't mention any environmental issue to protect our nature against. In our project, we made them focus on both the problem, "an environmental issue" and the solution, "plant more, recycle, etc.".     Besides, we added more detailed instructions to make sure that every student understands the project completely. 
    Well, lastly we recommended them to use Canva while creating the infographic as it is easy to use and it has many templates which will help them a lot. We gave a link for them to be inspired by other infographics about the environment. We also added a rubric to show the elements that they should pay attention. 

    Here is our project. I will also share my teammates' blogs:
Yaren's blog
Oğuz's blog

Technology Enhanced Project by Oguz Kales on Scribd





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

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