Wikispaces

Hi! Today I'm going to talk about wikis. A wiki is an application, typically a web application, which allows collaborative modification, extension, or deletion of its content and structure. -Wikipedia
We use wikis in our daily life frequently, especially when searching or trying to find an information. Wikis are open sources and you can easily contribute them. But we can also use them for an educational purpose, right? For example, we can create an account for our class and add our students so that students can be active while learning. Before talking about my wiki project I want to give some links that we checked last week at the course.

https://www.wikispaces.com/
http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page (my favorite one :D)
These are the ones that I remember *sorry*
Anyway let's talk about my wiki project we use wikispaces. Our teacher create a wiki for us about our favorite book and each of us added a page and write something about the book that we chose. We also added some videos and photos too and learn how to use wiki and create an account it was fun for me and I found it really useful. I might think of using it in my course in the future. Things would be better if I wouldn't lose all the things that I write and write them from the beginning. I saved but it didn't work and also I didn't like the tools which is used for the edit the font, color etc. They are complicated. Even a little change can change the whole things and it gets worse. The simpler the better! Anyway it was fun. I like it.
So here is my book review!
https://ourfavouritebooks.wikispaces.com/Sherlock+Holmes
Have a nice day! ♥♥

Podcast ♥

Hi there! Today I'm going to talk about podcasting. First, I want to give a brief information about podcast. What is podcast?

"A podcast is a digital medium that consists of an episodic series of audio, video, digital radio, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed on-line to a computer or mobile device." -Wikipedia.

You can easily find a podcast about every topic for your English courses, or you can create one using recorder or podcasting websites like me and my friends did. Now I'm going to give some details about how we created a podcast.

First, it was a task given by our course teacher. There were 3 options and we chose creating a sound rich horror story. Well actually, it was a pair work but we were 3, me my friend Seden and Sevda. To be honest, I thought it was a burden and I wasn't enthusiastic at all but it was really fun. Me and Seden went to Sevda's home to create our story and meet Sevda's cat Kar. After playing with Kar and having lunch we decided to start our story. First, we wrote the script. Our teacher gave us the beginning of the story and we completed the rest. We created a character for each of us. Well, it had to be a sound rich story so we downloaded a lot of sound effect like storm, door knock, scream etc. Everything was ready but there was a problem 'how can we add these sound effects while recording our voice?' We thought to play them on the laptop but it might not be that easy. Then, we decided to sent the background sound to Seden's cell phone and other sound effects to my cell phone. Yep, everything was good, Sevda held the sript, I played the sound effects and Seden played the background sound and we used the voice recorder of the laptop. But in our first try the sound was not clear enough so we decided to use the microphone of the headphone. In our second try I couldn't hold my laugh and ruined the recording! :D But in our third and the last try we created a really entertaining recording. I know you wonder the recording so here it is! :D

Audio and voice recording >>

It was three o’clock in the morning and there was a storm outside. We were awake watching a horror film when suddenly the door was knocked...

Kate: Any volunteer? 

Seddy: Don't look at me no way.. 
Mel: It's your idea to watch horror film so go and open the door
Kate: you cowards OK, I'm gonna open it.
Kate: What happened? 
Mel: Someone poked me 
Seddy: It wasn't me
Kate: Me neither 
Mel: I know you're trying to scare me

Seddy: No please just calm down

Kate: Just stop it! I'm gonna open the door

...

Mel: Where is she?

Seddy: Yeah its been almost 10 minutes

Seddy: What the hell was that?

Mel: Yaa I'm scareddd. Kaaateee are you OK?

Seddy: Kateee i feel like something bad happened, I'm gonna take a look 

Mel: No Don't leave me alonee...

Seddy: It's OK, I'll be back in a second 

Mel: OK Mel calm down I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid

Mel: Kate, Seddy is that youu? heyy it's not funny you know 

Mel: Omg! what's that? Kate Seddy 

Seddy/Kate: You should have come with us

Kate: You missed a lot by not coming to panic house

Mel: It was all for just a stupid game, I could've die here

Seddy: You didn't come with us so we brought the game to you

THE END~

*Me as Mel, Sevda as Kate, Seden as Seddy

Hello! ♥

Hello! This is my first post. ^^ I started this blog for my Technology & Materials Design course. I'll share my experiences about the course and what I learned from the course. Hope we enjoy the time during the term. ^^ Please feel free to contact. 
Have a nice day!