A Little Bit of Everything

     You know that feeling when you just want to post about how your summer went, how many kilos of strawberries 🍓you ate, and all that… but instead, you kinda have to write this as the “intro post” for a new semester? Yeah, that’s me right now.      SO HI, HOW ARE YOU? It’s been a very long time (the summer actually felt very short, but anyways).      Soo, I’m back to continue sharing my experiences and dramas with technology — but this time, it’s for another course: Current Issues in ELT, offered by my lovely instructor, Mustafa Polat . If you’re wondering what this course is about — well, pretty much the same stuff, except this time we’ll be putting ourselves in the teacher’s shoes instead of the student’s when doing the assignments. And most of our tasks will be AI-related (at least that’s what I got from the syllabus hehe ).      I can’t wait to see what kind of chaos and creativity this semester will bring. Hopef...

  HEY GUYS!      Can you believe the semester is already over? I CAN BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WON`T FINISH. BUT I am sad too, of course, bacuse I am going to miss you, my beautiful people😭. This will be my last post for now , but don’t worry — it’s not a goodbye, just a little “see you soon!” 👋      Writing this blog and sharing my experiences with technology has been such a fun (and sometimes chaotic 😅) part of my university journey. I really enjoyed sharing my thoughts, silly moments, and tech adventures with you all. It felt like a safe little space where I could just be myself and say what’s on my mind and that’s something I’m really grateful for.      I’ll be back next semester with more ideas, experiences and more experiments. Until then, take care of yourself, rest well, and do something nice for your brain 🧠 . Have a nice summer break, y`all!! 💖 See you in the next level!  - Elena 🌸

 Hi there brilliant people, how have you been!✨✨ Sadly, this is my final task and experience related post for this semester but don’t worry we will see each other next term!! 😁 I will also write a see-you-soon post but now it is time for sharing my experience with Magic School AI .      It was one of the easiest and fun tasks until now. I talked with Picasso! 😆 I mostly asked about his famous painting, Guernica.  I used the character chat bot of Magic School AI, an AI for educators and students, and it was awesome.💕 It gives you the opportunity to learn very much by discussing with people like important characters, historical figures, and so on. Well, as you can deduct, I had to speak with a character and write a report about it.  Pablo Picasso, Guernica , May 1–June 4, 1937 (Paris), oil on canvas, 349.3 x 776.6 cm (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) © Estate of Pablo Picasso    ...

Hi there, beautiful people! 💖✨ I know this is the second post of the day, but HEY, what can I do if we have 2 assignments with the same due date? Now, refresh your popcorn, sit back, and read this one too  :)  (pretty please)       So we had a task related to digital storytelling. It was a group assignment again, 🙄 and we had 3 options. Creating a PSA (Public Service Announcement), creating a HOW TO project video, or creating a fictional digital story . Me and my lovely friends Berfin and Baran   firstly wanted to do the story option. We had some crazy and fun ideas, we even created the story and the script, BUT because the time limit was `` no longer than 2 minutes `` and our story was longer , even after shortening at a level that the story was not making much sense anymore, we failed in creating it. 4 hours were in vain. 😭 We didn’t lose hope (we were so stressed because the deadline was close and we still didn’t have any product or ...

  Hi there, amazing people!💖        I am here to share another experience with you guyss. We did an online collaborating writing task with my dear friends Berfin and Baran (love u guys 💙). We chose the first option that required us to write a film review. We also had to comment to another groups review and that group had to comment  and express their ideas on ours too of course. ( Melis , Buse and Sevgi )        To be honest, I cant say that I   loved  the process though😐. It was the easiest task to complete among all the assignments because you just watch a film and write the things you liked about it. Thus, it was a little hard to manage the time because we had another task to complete with the same deadline. We also didn’t find a common slot to write simultaneously but in the end WE DID IT . 👏        When it comes to Google Docs , well, I used it several times before this task as a collaborativ...

 Hi guysssss! ✨🎇 Long time no see! How have you been, I hope you are all right because I am NOT. I am so tired because of the midterms and all the assignments but anyway, I still have the energy to dance even in the subway hehe. 💃           Today I am here to share another fun experience! Me and my bestie Berfin 💗(click here to see her blog) created a podcast! We created a very short-story namely The Melody of the Forest ( I embedded it at the final of this post)           We had so much fun but at the same time, we encountered a lot of problems. The voice recording was the most difficult part because some sites were not working properly 😠and we didn’t find a quiet place in the whole campus. Who knew that all the building's doors were closed on Sunday??? We even booked a room in the library but we didn’t know that the room was not separated and we had to record somewhere else. Guess where, it may sound a little di...