A General Evaluation of Educational Technologies

Hello everybody!

The end of the semester has come and I am here with a general review article about the educational technologies course in this post.

First of all, I must say that I did not know much about educational technologies before taking this course. I had never produced a podcast or a digital video before. I didn't even have a blog!

I think this course is very useful as it is a great experience for me. In addition, as a foreign language teacher candidate, what I learned in this course will be very useful for me. Because technology is developing day by day and I will be teaching a generation that grows completely intertwined with this technology. Therefore, it is neither possible nor appropriate for me to teach them anything with traditional methods.

Among the tasks we prepared, I liked preparing podcasts the most. Because creating a text and voicing it was both fun and provided the opportunity to improve my pronunciation by listening to my own voice. My least favorite thing was to prepare a poster. Because among others, I found it the least useful.

Our teacher was so enthusiastic and energetic that I don't know what I can recommend to improve the lesson :) Thank you very much, teacher Gökçe...

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