This is where we part ways!

 Every story has an end, and this is where ours ends.

"Sitting in the middle of the room, not knowing what to do or say... I think I should end it all here."

AI-Enhanced Teaching Material or Shall I Say It's Finally OVER!

 Artifical, Quite Artificial!

"I've been through a lot, but this one... Man, this one was pure pain."

Reality but Not So

Confusion is Fundamental 

"If I don't know whether what I am seeing is true or not, how can I ever be sure that I am alive?"

A FLIPPED LESSON!

 AN ENDURED BURDEN

“Hot topic, hot topic! Come and get your hot topic!”

FIRST DIGITAL WORKSHEET

GOT A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THIS ONE

Greetings; lads! Today I am back with an interesting activity I’ve prepared with my friends (Mert and Ozan), and that is a digital worksheet. Now, let’s talk about what we’ve been through, aye?

                       

For this task, we were asked to prepare a lesson plan following the ASSURE model by paying close attention to its components and sub-components, and also a digital worksheet activity with direct use of a corpus. Me and my friends tried our best to follow the 4 key principles (test student knowledge, hands-on corpus searches by students, inductive discovery by students, and output exercise) proposed by Ma et al. (2021) for corpus utilization, to integrate this technology into our design (the link could be found below). While we were preparing this task, we’ve been through several problems, but the only one worthy of mentioning is when we were choosing our topic. We first decided to teach about “could” and “would” but later realised that it was not part of the theme we chose (School Life). So, we went to the contents section and found out about which grammatical items were taught in each theme and reached a consensus on teaching “must” and “have to.” However, I would be lying if I were to say I didn’t enjoy the process; I really did. It was nice to be free in our choice of layer and what to include. I guess worksheets are one way to compensate for the strictness of our profession. Nonetheless, there is one thing I am quite concerned about if our activity were to be implemented in a class, and it is the corpus activity. Although we chose CorpusMate to facilitate the activity for its user-friendly interface and simple functionality, it is hard to find appropriate sentences to grasp the topic. This may lead the teacher to spend more time on this part and therefore have limited time for the remaining exercises.

SO LONG 😊

Our Digital Worksheet

Our Lesson Plan

!AN UPDATE!

Sorry for the late reminder, lads, but some parts've been changed in our worksheet and also in our lesson plan. For the former one we've added a section to introduce what a corpus is, switched the corpus we used to SKELL from CorpusMate, enumerated the exercises for ease of organization, changed the colors of the tables in two of the exercises, and determined specific sentences for corpus use. Lastly, you can access the new version of our lesson plan through the link below. 

The New Lesson Plan

FRESH NEW START :)

 TIMES DO FLY FAST, WELCOME BACK LADS!

I HATE GOODBYES!

"After all we've been through, is this how things will end?"

"Hello world..." was the first utterance we were to see on those monitors of ours. Maybe this simple utterance was a sign of what technology could do, or it was a mere attempt to break the chains men stringed onto these devices; who knows? But one thing is for sure: there's no way we can run away from its impacts, and thus we should adapt."

I've Found a Digital Partner!

 "Mother used to warn me not to talk to strangers, but this 'thing' is different." 

"Hello everyone! I was quick this time and brought another 'intriguing' concept to share with you all. Today's post is about Magic School's ChatBot!"

A Film Review about El Maquinista

 "Now, that was oddly intense!"

Hello, dear people of our cruel world! Did you guys finally find time to check out this new post of mine? Now that's just nice!

We Prepared a Digital Story!!!

 "Why not make a story that is too riveting and humorous, and one that can make you realize how life actually works?"

It's been so long, hasn't it, fellas? But don't any of you worry now, because I got something to entertain and even stimulate some of you to try it yourself!

Do I Sound Strange?

"My voice defines me; I think I am a good narrator."

The beginning suggests a rather self-actualization concept, right? It is a direct claim and quite rigorous in that it is filled with confidence. It is actually a solution to understand how good you are at new things you try, like how I did with a podcast assignment. Like a mantra in this sense of usage.