Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Glogster

Glogster is a website where you can create an online poster. Normally when you creating a poster you can only add some texts and images. But in Glogster you can add songs or even videos as well.. you can add you own videos and songs or embedded videos from youtube. Isn't it interesting? :) your poster can be more awesome with Glogster. Glogster is also a simple tool. If you want to add a video or a song, you can add it easily. I highly recommend you to use this tool especially if you want to make your classroom activities be more fun and interesting for your student! :)

I made this poster with my classmate, Emine Yildirar. Even though this is our first time using such a tool like this, we did not found any technical problem. For me, using my own creativity is a big challenge. I am not such a person with high creativity. But Emine helped me a lot. At first, we had brain storming to find any good idea then we started to find any pictures and videos from youtube. By the way, our poster is about "21st Century Communication". We said that 21st Century Communication is a communication based on technology. It is easier, simpler and somehow can make distance among people means nothing. But unfortunately, sometimes people might have a problem about their virtual and their reality. People tend to have more time with their gadget or having communication through gadget rather than with real people in real situation. That is all our thought about 21st Century Communication.. Lets Check our poster out! :)



Thursday, April 17, 2014

Digital Storytelling

Hi! I would like to share you my digital storytelling that I made using windows video maker. Windows movie maker is such an easy tool to make a video. You can combine pictures, songs and video easier than any other tool. 

Well, actually this is not my first time using this tool. I did not have any technical problem when combining pictures, a song and a narration with my own voice. The only problem that I faced was embed the video to my blog. I think this is because the video's format is unacceptable for blog or maybe the size is too big.

The title of my story is 'friendship". In the story, I told the viewer about my best friends. Who are they, how we met and what it means to be friend. I divided my video into 4 parts. The first part is about my first best friend whom I met in the primary school. The second part is about my other best friends whom I met in the high school and then the third one is about best friends whom I met in Turkey. Finally the last part is about what it means to be friend in my opinion. Here is my story.. :)