Del.icio.us :)

Internet is a vast source of information so everyone receives lots of important links from yahoogroups,or friends just like me. It's really difficult to keep these links together so I asked Vance (the king of the webheads) to help me. He suggested opening a del.icio.us account and collect all my links there. I found it really useful and I'm going keep all my important links in my de.icio.us account from now on. I'll keep my blog posted when I discover a new feature of it.You can access all my links by going to the link below .

http://del.icio.us/buoyant

Believe me they're really delicious :)
Enjoy:)
Beyza

my blogging presentation was fun!

Today,I did a session about blogging to my colleagues here in Bahcesehir University. I showed my old class blog and the blogs I set up for each level in the university. It was really fun and they really enjoyed the session. I think I'll do another session in our computer lab to experiment our instructors more with blogging. I hope to be successful in my new mission:)

Yuppii! I have my own wiki!!

Hi again,
I set up my own wiki about some useful tech tools and how they can be used in ELT today.I want to share it with all English teachers in the future(after I become more familiar with it) .Now it's confidential but I'll make it public after I make all the necessary changes . I'll have 3 weeks off but I'm sure I'll come up with many useful ideas in my holiday.

Beyza
(A toddler wiki user:)

Reading List

Hi again,
CELTA is over!!!That means I'll have plenty of time to blog this summer.While I was checking my emails,I came accross a list of books and links about learning technologies.I just wanted to share the list.If you have any other books in your mind,just let me know.Here's the URL http://www.prof2000.pt/users/vstevens/writing.htm#books.
Beyza

posting a video-mission completed:)What's the next one?

Hello,
I have just posted a new video thanks to my computer guru student Cagrı and Glady's.I had assumed it was very hard to do that but I understood that it is pretty easy.I'll definitely use more videos in my class blog to make my ss more active in the class blog.I hope it works:)
Bye for now

Beyza

integrating blogging to classes-my experiences

Merhaba
Last week was a very busy week for me because of my new class and my attempts to integrate blogging to my class. Almost 50% of my ss have blogs now but I have to admit that it took a lot of time to make them to get used to blogging. My intention of using blogging in my class is to make my ss produce sth in other words;to create them an opportunity t o use the new language they learn.I assigned them two writing tasks and many of them managed to complete them. However I'm not sure about how to correct them since they have serious mistakes.I don't want to discourage them but at the same time some mistakes have to be corrected. I sometimes post a general comment to my ss' blogs and write they need to revise their paragraphs again.I 'm thinking of some other solutions and checking B4B mails a lot to overcome that difficulty.I also think that I should involve my ss more in the class blog since it is easier to control what's going on.Videos,some reading texts , even voice messages can be useful in involving my ss in the class blog.I hope it works.
Beyza

My new class blog

Hi again:)
I have created a class blog for my new class which is going to start on Monday.As it is my first class blog ,I'm very excited and enthusiastic about it.I have written an introductory message in Turkish since my new ss are very low level ss who have repeated the same module twice.I will post a new entry to that blog about how to get an account and create a blog, in Turkish ,if they have problems about these things.Moreover I added some links to that blog.I'm always open to everyone's ideas and suggestions so if you have any ideas or suggestions,lets share and learn from our experiences:)
Best wishes
Beyza