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Hello again!

This week we have a task as usual and this task is “digital story telling.” I think it is like podcasting. We recorded our voices and had a background music but in this project we used photos and some description on them.

For this task I worked with my friend “Neslihan Civelek.” 
In this task we had 3 choices and we were asked to choose one topic.  We chose the topic whose name is “What it means to be good friends? “ At the beginning of the work we chose our photos and wrote about our memories, ideas about friendship. While we were talking about the “friendship” term, we considered our friendship as well. Because this topic was familiar to us, thinking about it was not difficult for us.After we prepared writing a script then we recorded our voices but we had some difficulties not like in podcasting because we were better from our first experience. We recorded our voice three or more actually not so much and in first place we recorded together but after we listened, we did not satisfied at all and we decided to record our voices separately. This was time consuming but after realizing we did better, we started to integrate all our components via movie maker program. While we were using the program, sometimes it did not respond and we did the same process again. But if we do not think that side, using movie maker is easy. You can give time limit for every photo and add music and your voice into the background. 

How we can use digital storytelling in the classroom? 

In fact after we introduce what we expect by saying digital storytelling and how to do it, we can give students different topics and want them to create. By doing this, they improve their skills such as speaking, writing; if we want them to look at their friends’ works, listening and reading skills. By giving a task, students’ skills develop. I should mention that working in pairs can be a logical choice at the beginning because students can learn from one another peripherally when they work together and maybe some of them feel better and will be more ready for other tasks, at the same time working with a friend is fun. As I said before I also worked with my friend and we had not much difficulty. We shared our ideas and corrected each other’s mistakes.

As you see there is nothing to worry about being novel and doing different activities. Do your best for a better learning and teaching activity. See you in another post...

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