Podcast

Hi everyone!

Today I want to share a podcast of mine that I prepare for ELT students to introduce GTM briefly. I used an app called Anchor which my friend Zine Berfin recommended. It is a really easy app to record and share podcast. This is the link;

https://anchor.fm/zeynep-ahsen-karasoy/episodes/Grammer-Translation-Method-ecnl2p

Storybird: Digital Book

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Today's subject is Storybird. It is a website that enables it users to create their stories. This site can be useful for creating materials for your classroom. It is easy to register. However, I couldn't find how to create a story in the website and I search for like 5 minutes. So an introduction would be nice for rookies like me. Their motto is artful storytelling and you can understand why quite easily. It has a lot of drawing for each subject you want to write and you can add them to your book. Here is a photo from the website;

This is starting my page, and you can start writing your book by clicking the second blue box and you can also join challenges by clicking to first box here;

And this is my poetry book, I wrote one of my favorite poems: https://storybird.com/poetry/preview/essay-on-man

Gistory

Hi!

Today I wanted to introduce a new app that my lecturer told me. This app called Gistory. Gistory aims to help teachers or students to create interactive stories for education and for fun. It is completely free to use. The app is really great for idea, it reminds me of Bandersnatch, the movie that enables you to shape the story and get different endings according to your own choice. It could be useful for English teachers to make students to use cognitive and language skills together. My first Gistory idea was about a detective story where you try to find the clues and choosing best choice that you think and get different endings according to your evaluation of the evidences. It can be so much fun to try to understand between the lines while using the language. Also it can be used to test grammatical skills. Down side of the app might be creating a story in the app is taking too much time and sometimes it does not allow you to create a story at all. You can look the app from the link down below;

Link for android users: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gistory&hl=tr
Link for iOS users: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gistory&hl=en_IE

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