ExpandingELT

As a course requirement we have been given some subjects for creating a podcast. There were options like singing a chant of a character, changing the world in 60 seconds. But I have chosen tell a story podcast. The reason behind why I have chosen this instead the others is I love creating stories especially horror stories. Since my childhood I have always loved to listen horror and thrilling stories. My family did not let me watch horror movies until the age of 11. I remember the day I have watched my first horror movie. It was a rainy afternoon, the movie was named "A Nightmare on Elm Street". Starting from that day, I have always wanted to watch a good horror movie. I got into dark stories and started reading H.P Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe. Anyway here is the short horror story podcast. I hope you get thrilled! While creating the podcast the hardest part was finding the right sound effects to give the feeling of being in the story. I have search in some free ...

Throughout the centuries mankind has always been in search of knowledge. The only thing that has changed from the beginning is the methods of this search, which we can call learning. With the advent of the internet people had started to interact with each other frequently, which resulted in share of knowledge and information. This lead people to use the internet, world wide web, to gain knowledge from A to Z. Unlike the old times when there was no internet, learning is aided with technology, and this technology involvement requires some elements which a learner has to have. The picture above is a statue named "The Thinker" it represents thoughts and thinking. We should also be thinking about the skills that we need to adapt this new 21th century and how can we learn in this century. Lets explain some of these 12th century skills. We need to have literacy in many aspects to be an eligible learner. Media-literacy, mathematics-literacy etc. We need to be able to work ...

Welcome to my first blog "ExpandingELT". I am an English Teacher Candidate Batin Orene. Before posting anything I want to explain the reason why I have opened up this blog, and what you can expect to find within in the future. To begin with I am currently in my junior year at Marmara University in English Language Teaching Department. I soon will be an English teacher(Hurray!). As a requirement of a course called "Instructional Technologies and Material Design in English Language Teaching",  I will post a series of posts about Learning English and Technology use which will vary in subjects. To be honest they only thing that I can assure you is that you will not be disappointed in spending time on my blog. I welcome myself on abroad beginning this journey. I hope you find things that takes your interest. Have fun! Minions Excited GIF from Minions GIFs I forgot to explain why I have named the blog "ExpandingELT". Well I have chosen this because du...