The Story With a Twist and First Podcast Experience

   Podcast have been a relatively popular source of entertainment and information since they were first produced. And recently I got to do my own podcast about a story.

   The podcast I made was needed for a university assignment. The assignment consisted of four options we could choose as a type of our podcast but I chose the one where I would write a story and voice it with a partner.

   My partner was Muhammet Berkay Seçer again, as we did all pair and group works together. You can check out his blog here.

   The story task required us to use 5 words from a list and 10 sound effects to add to the mood and then voice it.

   The whole task was overall pretty easy. The script didn't take too long to finish. Voicing the story was a bit weird. Because we are not used to hearing our own voice like how other people hear it, we couldn't help but feel awkward while listening. The editing part took more time than the others but my friend Berkay was experienced in editing so we didn't sweat a lot during that part too.

   As a future teacher, I will definitely give my students a project to do a podcast. It was really fun and helpful in many ways but it was a bit complex too. I will definitely try to give this kind of project to more older students because younger students would not be able to do it by themselves.

   Overall podcasting is pretty fun and I would recommend it anytime.

   You can listen to our podcast here.

   Thanks for reading and walk tall.

My Research of Covid and First Padlet Writing Experience

 

   Recently I was given a project from one of my courses in university. With a group of four people we had to create a Padlet page about certain topics. The topic we chose was about Covid. We had to make a KWL (what we know, what we want to know and what we learned) chart about the subject. Every person had to write 3 questions or points under each headline. 

   The project was enjoyable and did not take long to finish. We had to use trustable websites as a source and such websites were not hard to find. We definitely learned quite a bit about Covid and Padlet after the project. 

   Padlet was useful in allowing placing information in an aesthetic way but it did not allow the user to put multiple images or videos in a single post. This handicap did limit us but other than this Padlet was a pretty useful tool in helping us what we needed to achieve.

   This project was also pretty helpful in improving our collaboration and digital literacy skills. As we had to do the project together as four people we organised our questions and sources together and this definitely helped our collaboration skills. In addition we searched a lot of websites for reliable information and this helped us to learn what to look for in a website. Overall the project was very much helpful.

   Thanks to my friends Bora Sarakurt, Muhammet Berkay Seçer and Eren Kızıltepe for everything they have done in this project. They all have blogs like this which you can reach by clicking their names.

   You can check out our Padlet page through here.

   Thanks for reading and walk tall.

A photo of our Padlet page.