Day 2- Making Use of Technology Tools Course in York Associates

Hello! We are back together in the second day of our intensive course! We started the day by evaluating yesterday's session with the website that we were introduced yesterday: answergarden.ch

Later, it was time for homework checking! :) We shared the photos we have taken in York about the things we have found interesting/ strange things about this city.  Here are the ones taken by me: 

 These full two plates were served for one person for lunch! I was so shocked when I saw it that I could actually eat almost nothing. 

This is the sugar served at the famous tea room, Betty's Cafe which looked different than the ones we have in Turkey (cube shaped).

I consider myself really lucky because every minute of the course we learn something new both from our trainer and from our colleagues. Here are some of the other websites that have been recommended by our trainer or my colleagues:

• https://www.geocaching.com/play: If you travel a lot and want to discover parts of your destination that are really worth visiting, would you like to do that like a treasure hunt? In many different parts of the world, people are hiding little secret things and you need to discover where they are! It is really exciting. You can even try this in your own town. Maybe there are still some places you haven't been yet...
• here is the video introducing geocaching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YTqitVK-Ts

• http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html : This is a very nice easy to use moviemaker program with which you can prepare simple animation videos in a minute. It seems it is better for younger learners but I am sure students at all ages would all like to see a very short dvolver video in their lesson. At least we enjoyed it. :)

• https://www.spreaker.com: We were introduced this podcast program by our trainer Chia. It is a free program where you can record podcasts with clicking one button only, literally! It is worth trying it with your students because it is really practical, but bear in mind that you cannot edit your podcasts in speaker. If you are going for something more professional, you need to use additional editing websites.

In our course, we also enjoy ourselves a lot! For example, I am the youngest member of the group and my dear colleague Andrea pointed out this fact in a funny way in his blog: 

http://techie-ten.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/today-i-am-to-lazy-to-continue-blog.html

Here is a selfie taken in the two seconds we found in between the activities :)