KWL

Wiki is a website. Due to wiki, we can share what we have as data collection and gather from others' data with ours. We can easily come up with new information and collobarate together. On the other hand, we can compare our information and others', as well. I would like to learn about how to make wiki use more interactive. From this activity I learned that how to reach this web site and collect more effective information from other people.

Animal in Turkish with Quizlet

We learned a program which name is "Quizlet" and it's so much fun. Try it on your own for making effective quizess :)

METU NCC from 2010

Here is my first video making experience with  the program which name is "Stupflix" for the lecture which is CTE 319. Remember those days like yesterday actually it is not! :)

Challenges with using Adjectives(Background)

In the English language, the adjective is the part of speech that modifies or describes a noun (usually the subject) in the sentence. While adjective placement and form is somewhat standard in a variety of sentences, sometimes speakers and writers of the English language can run into trouble if the adjective requires an irregular or less common form to keep the sentence grammatically correct.

Attributive and Predicative Adjectives

• One problem that some encounter is determining where to place an adjective in a sentence. If the adjective comes before the noun, it is an "attributive" adjective -- for example, "The young child" or "The green car." Adjectives that come after the noun are called "predicative" adjectives -- for example, "The child is young" and "The car is green." While the former is fairly easy to remember in English (adjective + noun), the latter is a bit more confusing because it generally requires a verb or verb phrase before the adjective ("The man is tired") but does not always require a verb ("Surgeon General" or "times past"). Additionally, the entire meaning of a sentence or idea can change depending on whether or not the adjective is used in an attributive way or a predicative way. For example, "The poor man" indicates that we feel sorry for the man in question, whereas "The man is poor" suggests the man has little money to spend.

Qualitative and Classifying Adjectives

• Some may struggle with "qualitative" and "classifying" adjectives and how to use each correctly in a sentence. While qualitative adjectives provide information on quality ("the smart cat"), classifying adjectives put a noun or object into a specific group ( "the pregnant woman"). While this in itself is not hard to understand, what can be problematic is understanding that you can grade a qualitative adjective ("the extremely smart cat") while you cannot grade a classifying adjective. We rarely say "the highly pregnant woman" or "the really Western movie."

  Multiple Adjectives

  • Determining the order of words when more than one adjective describes a noun can be difficult. For example, if "long," "beautiful" and "silk" describe a scarf, should we say "the long, beautiful, silk scarf" or "the beautiful, silk, long scarf"? The order is something native English speakers usually learn without realizing what it is. In very general terms, an observed characteristic would come before a physical characteristic, which would precede a material. So "the beautiful, long silk scarf" sounds right to an English speaker's ears.

  Comparative Adjectives

  • Some adjectives can be "comparative" in that they suggest one thing is better, bigger, or somehow more improved upon than the other. Usually these adjectives end with -"er". (For example: the "richer" man has more money than the "rich" man, and the "fatter" cat has more girth than the "fat" cat). What is problematic for some speakers of English is learning that some adjectives require a modifier rather than "-er" ending to be comparative. Examples include the "more beautiful flower," or "the less wealthy man" or "the better choice." It would not be grammatically correct to say the "beautifuler" flower or the "betterer" choice.

  Superlative Adjectives

  • Adjectives can also be "superlative" in that they indicate a noun or object is the "best" or "greatest" (by comparison) to all other choices. For example, we might say that this flower is "the most beautiful" or this woman is "the loveliest" person in the room. And while many superlative adjectives end in "-est," there are also a wealth of irregular superlative adjectives that can create confusion because they do not: "the worst book" does not end in "-est" and requires route memorization to remember correctly. We would never say, for example, "the worstest book is on the shelf."

  
  

İrem & Lauren

Importance of Adjectives in Sentences (Discussion Part)

          In every language, adjectives are important elements of sentences. Using adjectives means that we can express the quality of any person or object. Without adjectives we could not say how any object looks like. Not only pronouns and adjectives are the words which are used for description of something or somebody. In addition; when we read a paper which is a descriptive one, adjectives help us to picture the content of what we read about. If I give an example for it which can you picture better??

1)  "She went to a friend's house."

2) "She happily along the brightly colored paved side walk while on her way to her friend's beautiful house."

Big difference, right ? :)

Adjectives are important because they...

---  describe a noun (person, place, or thing)

---  tell more about a noun (person, place, or thing)

---  make sentences more interesting

---  affect the meaning of  sentences

             Whenever we use adjectives, they make our writings more visual and vivid. Our readers will get a better idea of what we wish them to picture when they read our writings. It appeals to our readers’ senses; therefore, they can hear, see, touch, taste, and even smell what you’re describing. Also, use of adjectives makes our reading and writing much more fun. It sets the tone for our writing. You need to use them for descriptive papers or in our daily life. Moreover; we use adjectives because we want to express ourselves, things, characters in a good or bad way. It will get our readers' or listeners' attention and can make the book a good read or speech a good, an effective speech. Adjectives can make other people want to get the book or you are wanted to be listened over and over and see how well you wrote and talked with somebody and adjectives is a big help to succeed . They might even be looking for adjectives that come near. Whenever I think about my speeches,  writings or readings without using adjectives, I do not want to listen, write and read. Therefore, except for an academic writing I usually be careful about that issue in my speeches, or writings.          

              Briefly,  "One word is worth a thousand pieces of gold". That's like I cannot imagine a cake without any ornation on it. Then, how was  the cake? I say! :) Yes, this quatation which I wrote at the beginning of this paragraph  is definetely ever and ever true. So, I recommend you to do not give up and keep up using adjectives in your own sentences. By this way, we make up more and more attractive combinations! :) 
         For example,as we are prospective teachers we have teach "Adjectives" to the students. As you know that there are many different ways to teach adjectives. The video below shows a method that teaches adjectives to young learners. Please watch the video below and then answer the questions. 

                 And now, since you watched the video please share your anwers to the folowing questions:

1) Do you think that the video above is an effective method to learners?
2) What do you think, what is the best way to teach adjectives?
3) In Russian literature (writer's such as Tolstoy, Chehov, Dostoyevsky) use pages of adjectives to describe the characters. Why do you think they do that?




                This is an another video to teach adjectives for students. Which video do you think is more effective in teaching adjectives? If you were a teacher which one would you use and why?

"EasyTestMaker"

Well, I chose the programme which is called "EasyTestMaker". This includes onlines test which generates to help you to create your test. Creating multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true-false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructructions and divide your tests into multiple sections!  So, I will more focus on how to use this site and what to do with this programme for students. 

The first step is to creating a new test. For this: Choose a name that describes the test you are creating, then select the default font and size. When using the enhanced editor, you have more options for your test format and folder organization. If your want to take advantage of all the additional enhaced features we recommend you try and use the enhanced editor. 

Click here to create a new test using the basic editor.

Click here to begin using the enhaced editor to create and manage your tests.

Also learn how to create online test

Step two is adding and editing questions. A test can have as many questions as you want. You can have any number and variety of the question types listed below. 

For online tests, all questions can be graded automatically except for short answer questions. For short answer question on online tests you will be provided an online grading tool before the tests final grade is provided.

Click the question type below to see it's features:

Multiple Choice

True or False

Matching

Fill-in-the-Blank

Short Answer

Section Headings

Exam Builder --- Copy Questions from other Test

Creating an Online Test 

The last and the third step is printing your tests! Printing your test is just a matter of clicking the [Print & Download] link on the main test page. The [Print & Download] link opens the test in a new window and automatically opens the print window. Before you print you have the option to select which version to print and if you just want to export your test to PDF or a Word document.

You can also print a master answer sheet for the test as well.


Note: You must have Adobe Reader installed to view and print your tests.



Then, how can it be used in a classroom?

        The "EasyTestMaker" website is designed to help teachers easily create quizess that are nicely formatted and easy modify.  No more wrestling with formatting in microsoftword or tediously creating quizess with a pen and paper. Each quiz is saved on the EasyTestMaker website for later-use. Teachers can acculmulate a bank of quizess and go back at a later dater to change the answers or further modify the questions. An account is required to create such quizess; however, it only takes a few moments to setup. Virtually, all the feature teachers will need to create quizess are available with the free account. 

What I like about this site?

           This website is awesome because teachers who prepare tests can easily use this programme. Here are some features to ease the test-making pain: 

	Create tests with hundreds, even thousands, of questions.
	Activate and deactivate test items with just a click of a checkbox.
	Assign and display marks for each question.
	Auto reminder to back up your work - an invaluable feature if your computer is  prone to power outages.
	Select alternate lettering for multiple choice answers to meet formatting standards set by some USA state education authorities.
	Customize questions and answers using superscript, subscript, bold, italic and underline for words, phrases or whole blocks of text.
	Set custom font styles for the entire test from the Global Fonts dialog.
	Ribbon navigation brings the most used features out in the open making them easy to access, and eliminating the need for drop down menus that hid features and were sometimes difficult to work with.
	Add a picture or logo image to the Title Group (first page header) for both the test document and the answer sheet.
	Assign a Level and a Category to each question and then use those filters to select questions for your tests.
	Use the Diagram question type to provide an image to be labeled, or to create a space on the test or answer sheet for diagrams to be drawn.
	The Fill-in-the-Blanks question provides a way to select parts of a words, a phrase, or entire sentences. Double-click a word to remove it from the text or click the Select button.
	Use pictures for answer choices for Multiple Choice, Matching, and Order questions. Or use a combination of text and picture for answers.
	Add a page break and opt to allow a question and its answer to be separated over multiple pages if necessary (uncheck Keep Together for a question to have it span more than one page).
	A standard Find and Replace to locate questions with particular terms faster, and replace words or phrases throughout the test easily.
	Copy and paste math equations from Microsoft Word or MathType as resizable images.
	Make any question a sample question by setting marks value to 0. The sample question will not be assigned a question number.
	A design editor that allows for multiple fill up and fill down edits to marks, level, category, and activation.         "The easy way to make your tests!"                    I did mine's as an example to show how you create a test and use the program which name is "Screenr". Please watch it:

  Let's try your own tests with "EASY TEST MAKER"

TECHNOLOGY INTERVIEW

KWL and the Teachers' Pet

I have learned how to prepare an activities in an easy way.  I understand that it's hard to prepare by writing in a Microsoft  Word Office programme with our mental writings. To use these kinds of programmes make our lifes faster and easier. On the contrary; Teacher Pets Software saves our time for preparing a great deal of activities for the learners whom we teach for.

The program is designed to support educators facing severely reduced budgets by providing technology that eases desktop management, reduces labor costs, extends PC lifecycles and reduces security risks. I wonder this software's mechanics works in a practical and punctual way!  =)

In most case, both finding and creating activities for teacher is hard; however, I think students appreciate with activities (for me it is like that) If instructors create more activities in their lectures, they may be more effective for learners because     in my opininons, when students involve some kind of activities, s/he learns exactly.

KWL

I have not known anything about the interactive web pages until now. However, it comes more close to see what we doing right now. I want to know about how to insert these quizzes in the program. This is awesome. And more about the hints section because it is hard to keep hint behind the questions! :)

Lexico-Grammatical Feature II

For the "Verb", it always use the 'Noun Phrase' & 'Adverb' we can see this feature easly from the "becoming". By this way, I can easily show students the keywords and how often they used in the text it's surronding arounf itself; therefore, they can easily learn so many words.

"LEXICO - GRAMMATICAL FEATURE"

In the first reading text, it is more difficult to see:

- and drying climate meant that by BC, the Sahara region was BECOMING increasingly dry and hostile. 

-World Cups. South Africa hosted the World Cup tournament, BECOMING the first African country to do so.

- ence from France. Ghana followed suit the next year March , BECOMING the first of the sub Saharan colonies to be freed. 

Vocabulary Profiling

Vocabulary Profiling

I think both BNL vocabulary Profiler & Test Document Readability are the best tools because I can list word in English and, also, which words are the key ones. In addition one of these tools correct my mistakes in the sentences. 

KWL

KWL

I think the readibilt depends on the contect which we read on and also its hardness level whethere it is an easy or the hard one. The more structures, sentences, words we read, we may have to read again and again.  I can give a simple example what I am doing right now from this task: To illustrate; in the 1st question which asked: "Which one do you prefer for pre-intermediate group of students?" All of us chose the option "B" due to its readibility features in the text. I wonder how does it happen with a one-click!It is awesome to see the program has in itself. I can simply write that this program can be applied on all levels of learners.     

Vocabulary Profiling

"Vocabulary Profiling CTE319 Data-Driven Learning"

I can give my students text which they are going to read on it. Then, vocabulary profiling helps them be aware of that they can easily cooperate with it. Actually, with this, they can be able to learn and capture both the frequent and the common words; therefore they can easily can memorize the words! 

Integrating Blogs

* Using Powerpoint

* Online classroom activities


*  Webquest


*  Creating a class webpage


*  Using an online grading


*   Multimedia Presentations


*   Creating a class Blog/ Wiki 


*    Listen/ Create Podcast


*   "Publish" the assignments

Creating Vocabulary Profiler

Prism is suitable for the vocabulary profiler for it use of commonness among the other words. Even if we do not use the words so much in our daily life speeche, the context which we use is important. We cannot use the medical terms such as lung, surgeon, catling, etc. in our department which is  english language teaching. 

The video which integrated within shows us the words which are frequent and  infrequent. As I am a prospective teacher I can apply the same application to my student and can easily observe them which words they know and most, or which words they do not know; in other words, which they use not much in their speaking or writing. As a result of this, I can improve their language profile step by step. So, it is again depends on their knowledge about the language. I am not sure but if I give my students an advanced reading material probably they cannot guess and know the words in the text; however if I give them a text whhich is an intermediate level as a teacher both I and the learner whom I teach focus on more interaction and enjoyable teaching in terms of both of them and me.

The main difference between a word cloud and  vocabulary profiler is whhile the word cloud is more based on the finding the main point of text in terms of students, vocabulary profile is based on finding the words which are used in terms of teachers for learners, so it more broader than word cloud because you, as a teacher see what the learners should get from the text an important. Therefore, I can say that I would use the word cloud as student when I have a homework and vocabulary profile when I will be  teacher to capture my students' knowledge.

Vocabulary Profiling

TASK II:

It is quite debatable topic that the one who use the most commonly words make her/his communication better. It is because of his/her requirement to use these useful words to make him/herself understandable. No one wants to be not understandable in terms of whoever s/he is listened to; in other words, the advanced communication which includes daily life speeches make listeners bored. Knowing vocabulary does not mean always you apply in every sentences of yours, therefore, we as speaker should be careful about that issue. For native speaker it is more easy to capture because his/her daily life speech depends on his/her  own language than nothing else. BUT even if a person is native s/he may not know the word, so it is quite debatable that i depends how much people use the words are. I am not suprised that their frequency of because according to their variables they are different from each other such as British English versus Australian English. I think the conditions should be depend on what is your target such as learners and what is easy to teach as you are a teacher.

Vocabulary Profiling

***              No matter how good learners' English is,  they will never fail to come across unknown words in nearly every text they will be exposed to. Guessing the meaning from the text is hard for who does not know English as his/ her native language, even s/he good at it.These unknown words which we confront usually do not use in a daily life, or else we can immediately guess it. 

***             In Prep. school yes we had but when we pass to our department we have no such an activites like that. It is hard to guess because I mentioned above  the "unknown and being not used in a daily life" make them hard enough, so learners or whoever read the text make sure that s/he understand it context clearly.

***             Even if people are young or old we all keep learning throughout our life. Whether the learners or teachers it is not important to classifying learning BUT if the teacher give and support learner with strong feedbacks and teach them both beneficial and advantageous materials for their prospective lifes, they should also come up with new and interesting knowledge for learners' to keep alive their learning style. 

"Teaching Ideas" "CTE319" and "Data-driven Learning"

"Teaching Ideas" "CTE 319" and "Data-driven Learning"

Nowadays many people use social media which is for many many things and issues such as communication, interaction, knowledge building, etc. We use it because other than encylopaedia, books, audio material we find lots of thing from via internet. I think it is good for to upgrade classroom environment more vivid, dynamic, and active on the internet because, as I said before, it is used by everyone. If I put data-driven-learning into education, I can say obviously that it is easier to reach authentic and real tasks.By this application, both learner and teacher use materials in advance and more actively according to their use. Apart from this, technology can be great tool for motivating and engaging students and we can follow a great amount of innovation.  All over the world technology is developing day by day and even if people do not know how to use internet they should learn about it. to sum up, if I mention about my future life I think I will use the internet or any other technological materials such as OHP, projector, etc. 

DDL

Task 1:

I think, whenever we want we can follow DDL. It is more suitable to check small groups than larger groups in data-driven learning because it's more easier to follow the student in small groups. I can simply say that DDL is bvased on learning-centered, therefore hypnotising the learners' knowledge quickly. Technology is also important features for DDL because we can easily waht's going on immediately and forsure. So, there is the point view: actually learners cannot usually follow the DDL in f2f class, indeed we can can sometimes should use computer labs as a class. According to text, DDL is also suitable for both individual and group because it has 4 main aspect ehich are authentic materials, real activities, focusing on learner and the use of hand-made tools, so in another word, they can be used in both individual and group work but as I said before it more capture to figure out in smaller groups.

Task 2:

According to Wordle the top five words are "learning", "language", "materials", "knowledge", and also "teaching".This can be useful a lot because Wordle helps people to see the frequent words and also the important ones so anyone who will read this long text will have an idea about what s/he will read about. In summary, the text is based on learning issues and materials which is combined to learner.

Task 3:

The advantage of it was when I click the choosen word, it shows me how many times it is used and where it is used in this crowded text.

After "materials" it is more often to take prepositions, but after "enhanced" & "authentic" they are used with nouns.

The preposition "for" is stronger than the other collacations. 

Expectations from CTE 319

This course will be different for us because as we go through CTE 319; I think, we will stick up to internet, which I do not like very much cause I do not interested into social media much, So to me Welcome to social Media İrem :)EDMODO