Hi everyone,
I am a doctoral student in Learning,Design, and Technology program at UGA. I would like to share my design experiences in this lovely blog. Being interested in technology integration in language classes for years, I have decided to continue my scholarly journey in the LDT program because I have lots of questions regarding learning in my mind and I want to find or at least try to find their answers by doing research.
So far, I believe that I have been a qualified action researcher. I like observing my students, talking to them about the problems they experience, doing item analysis after each exam so that I am able to analyze my students' learning processes and problems. Since 2012, the date when I started to read about and attend trainings about educational technology, I have designed various technology-integrated activities and materials for my students. For my M.A. thesis, I implemented the flipped classroom model in my writing classes and designed six different version of video lectures.
In Turkey, I also used to give teacher training workshops about how to create technology-enhanced learning environments to my colleagues at conferences. I have been teaching English for nine years. Within this time period, I have had lots of meetings and discussions with my colleagues regarding the problems that we have experienced in our classes.
Therefore, in this new chapter of my life, I would like to focus on professional development and teacher training because I believe that we may change lots of elements in a learning environment through a well-designed professional development instruction for teachers.
So let the story begin!
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