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So far so good. I'd like to point out that I've started to feel at ease owing to gaining experience and knowledge during the online education process. That was a good chance for me to discover the strong and weak sides of me. Although distant education is essentially technology and Internet induced, it is much different from playing high stake online games :) That is to say; the more I got challenges, the better I learnt. It is now more convenient to focus on the core content and function of my lessons. And, of course, my precious pupils have played a great role in the virtual creation of the joyful teaching and learning atmosphere.

Ahmet Serkan Tanrıöver

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I was a little bit worried about all the things I was supposed to perform in online courses, had several minor problems covering the online courses, in-class tasks, extra activities and had quite a lot technical problems on Teams and classroom computer. Plus, I really got concerned about whether I would be as effective, practical and motivated in online courses as I was in face to face teaching. Thus, I was always in need of developing my IT skills and wondering whether I could benefit from the softwares mentioned in the pacing perfectly.

Ahmet Serkan Tanrıöver

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I was a little bit worried about all the things I was supposed to perform in online courses, had several minor problems covering the online courses, in-class tasks, extra activities and had quite a lot technical problems on Teams and classroom computer. Plus, I really got concerned about whether I would be as effective, practical and motivated in online courses as I was in face to face teaching. Thus, I was always in need of developing my IT skills and wondering whether I could benefit from the softwares mentioned in the pacing perfectly.

Ahmet Serkan Tanrıöver

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I questionned my teacher identity a lot. I kept asking myself if I am the same teacher in a face-to-face context. I didn't feel efficient in my online classes.

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I questionned my teacher identity a lot. I kept asking myself if I am the same teacher in a face-to-face context. I didn't feel efficient in my online classes.

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I created a rapport with my students. We became a strong community with common aims, fears and hopes. But the internet connection problems towards the end made me feel more irritated than at the beginning.

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I created a rapport with my students. We became a strong community with common aims, fears and hopes. But the internet connection problems towards the end made me feel more irritated than at the beginning.

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I feel much calmer and I genuinely liked online classes. It might have a lot to do with the fact that I taught fewer hours 😅
I feel so relieved we didn't need to check final exams. Can we do exams online every quarter? 😉

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I felt overhwhelmed by the amount of things we had to do.
I was worried I might forget about something important (e.g. taking a screenshot of the Student's App, unblocking something in Ekampüs2 etc.)

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CONFUSED, DOUBTFUL , OVERWHELMED
Ahmet Cihat Yavuz

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Felt good at the beginning bcz I was familiar with online teaching from other experiences, yet I was stressed by the technologies used to convey classes

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DEFINETELY CONFIDENT, REASSURED, and MOTIVATED BY STUDENTS' ENTHUSIASM

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DEFINETELY CONFIDENT, REASSURED, and MOTIVATED BY STUDENTS' ENTHUSIASM

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Ahmet Cihat Yavuz

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The problems were still there, but got used to them. Don't know if getting used to a problem is a relief! But that's how I felt

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Merve
I was worried about technical problems, online class atmosphere, my motivation ,and my digital skills in the beginning. Most of the things was new, there was so much to discover about online teaching. It seemed like a high mountain ahead to climb. For a moment, I had the fear of what if I can’t be as effective as I’m in face to face teaching.

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I feel much better. The technical problems are always there.We’ve learned to deal with them somehow. It is a relief that we still have fun in lessons and I enjoy teaching online classes.

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The things seemed so much and every step was new. It was not possible to feel overwhelmed and lost with this microsoft teams and its content. 

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The things seemed so much and every step was new. It was not possible to feel overwhelmed and lost with this microsoft teams and its content. 

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Feel more confident and motivated and sure about how to use the map on the road.

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Feel more confident and motivated and sure about how to use the map on the road.

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Excited despite some confusions

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Feeling anxious, burnout, insecure and worthless

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To be honest, I was pretty worried before Q1 started that it was a whole new experience for me. My concern grew even more when I was told about the process that will be applied before the quarter began. But always the way to learn something new is to experience them. I've done it. My adaptation didn't take much time due to my previous work experience and the detailed work I had there. When things became clear, I began to enjoy practicing them. At the end of Q1, I also became someone who fully adapted to this system, even helping colleagues as much as possible. It's a situation caused by the helpfulness of people who works in this institution. Thank you everyone who contributed to well being of me and our university.

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quite excited and happy to be back school. cool with teaching online from my summer experience.
and then started to get overwhelmed by the teams, the increasing population of the class and the overloading work/ekampus updates etc. :S

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having tried to manage an online class of 20 (all regular)for 1 quarter, finally being able to survive the grading craze on the OBS and still questioning why we grade SDK (while students already pass without our push)
now I feel more overwhelmed for the next quarter. :D  the best part of 'Distance education' was teaching the last week in a real distance and automatic grading system (this one was a real positive surprise, though). :)

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I had some hesitations when I first heard the new system. Too many apps - tools, different platforms to deal with (ekampus, obys, teams). I wasn't sure about student participation. I felt left alone and demotivated in the very first week. So, for me it was not a good start.

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In the middle, somewhere btw 2nd - 3rd week, I started to feel better. I started to get used to managing all those digital platforms and tools. I was happy with student participation. All my students were online most of the time. The problem was not seeing real students. I was only able to hear their voices. I always watch for students body language to deal with them in a right way but I felt like I couldn't. Then the assignments popped out. All those downloading, watching, scoring, writing feedback, converting to PDF, uploading, entering the scores on Obys processes were really tiring and it is not the only thing. I was supposed to understand what students should do and then explain that info in English which was pretty confusing for them, especially in the 1st and 2nd assignments. Many of my students didn't have You Tube accounts, know how to turn a PPT into a video. (I also didn't know it before the pandemic.) Last minute students made the situation worse. I had to explain every thing again and again. This is not a problem in face to face teaching but it was pretty difficult in this case because I had to keep everything in mind and explain without mistakes.(assignment info, macmillan app, teams, ekampus, obys -- all this info is difficult to gather at once.)

Last two weeks, online sessions, student participation, some students efforts... these were great but I still have hesitations and I really feel exhausted.
Finally, I believe we  underestimated the pandemic effect while focusing on trying our best to reach out to our students in the best way. When the pandemic worry is added onto teaching in the best way worry, a tiny snowball turned into a huge mind avalanche for me.

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To be honest, I felt a little scared about all the things we were going to do during the quarter. It seemed a lot of work to me although I like working a lot. I was confident about online teaching as we had some experience at the beginning of the pandemic. I was also quite motivated to start with Level 3 students and enthusiastic about learning new digital tools. The only problem for me was coming to school to give the lessons as it scared me about the current situation and it frustrated me due to the slow technology we had at school.

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I feel a little tired now, but I'm satisfied with my teaching. I think I did the best I could. I feel proud of my students. I also feel introspective and enlightened about my teaching. I know what I can do better in the next quarter.

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Özlem Yahyaoğlu                                                                İ was a lot worried about the things İ was supposed to perform in online lessons. I was anxious about having technical problems on Teams. I was always in need of developing my İT skills to benefit from the applications mentioned in the pacing.

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Özlem Yahyaoğlu I have handled  my concerns about distance Education well. Now I have definite  ideas what is efficient and what is redundant in distance Education.  I am always able to stay motivated during this process.

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I was very worried about the new technology etc. I had 20 students and it was hard to manage at first.

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I was very worried about the new technology etc. I had 20 students and it was hard to manage at first.

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I started to feel better towards the end, still stressed though. I think my online teaching skills improved. There were lots of grades, tasks to be checked, overwhelming(class size). Final test assessment came as  a surprise :)

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I started to feel better towards the end, still stressed though. I think my online teaching skills improved. There were lots of grades, tasks to be checked, overwhelming(class size). Final test assessment came as  a surprise :)

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At the beginning I was very excited to start teaching again but my motivation was brought down very quickly by the complicated systems and technologies we applied. I tried to keep my chin up thinking it will be justified and students will benefit, not seeing that happen slowly made me feel empty professionally. I remember one colleague asking me if we needed to take screen shots of discussion forums and I thought about it and I realized how we started getting used to doing things that didn’t make sense to any of us. So however a person would feel doing things that make no sense to him/her, that’s how I felt most of them time in the beginning.

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I got used to the complicated systems and technologies pretty much that’s all that happened, at the end complications, things that didn’t make sense etc. weren’t bothering me anymore, I was still trying to teach online the best I could but I was feeling indifferent.

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To be honest, although I am familiar with using technology in a lesson/activity, I was anxious about the system because there were too many apps, links, assignments etc. I was like a blank slate when I started, but then I caught up. I was satisfied with my teaching because I did my best. 

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To be honest, although I am familiar with using technology in a lesson/activity, I was anxious about the system because there were too many apps, links, assignments etc. I was like a blank slate when I started, but then I caught up. I was satisfied with my teaching because I did my best. 

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In the end, I got very exhausted due to work overload. (actually I’m not that kind of person, this is the first time). There were too many things and tasks to do and check etc. And explaining tasks to students was very challenging. I really spent a lot of time on Whatsapp to show how to do them. I thought I could not keep up with the process. Also, I think Teams made it challenging to deliver the lesson smoothly and effectively. 

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In the end, I got very exhausted due to work overload. (actually I’m not that kind of person, this is the first time). There were too many things and tasks to do and check etc. And explaining tasks to students was very challenging. I really spent a lot of time on Whatsapp to show how to do them. I thought I could not keep up with the process. Also, I think Teams made it challenging to deliver the lesson smoothly and effectively. 

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I was very confused, I questioned whether or not my digital skills and teaching skills would match well.

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Kubilay KAZANCI

1 Ara 2020 6:58pm

İŞARETLE

At the beginning of the quarter,  I was very optimistic about teaching online but later it turned out to be something ... (no adj to describe) although I m good at computer staff. First, the technology made me anxious, I automatically lost my motivation. Sometimes, I had to make my students to wait for mins. Another issue is that I felt lonely. It was upsetting to go around lonely in the halls. The only people I could see were Serkan and Kader. Sometimes, even if I could hear them, I couldn't see them. It was a big surprise to come across people in the halls. It was also very disappointing not to see the students on screen let alone saying hi or good morning. I wanted them to switch their camera on in the first lesson, but except for the speaking exam in the end, no one switch it on again.  Sometimes I thought I was talking to myself; sometimes I was asking questions and then answering them back myself. I finally owe a special thank to team of Microsoft Teams, who created the best, fastest and user-friendly software ever!!!!

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I was really nervous particularly during the first week of Q1. The first day I had many issues related to technology and Teams. My students couldn't join the class. I didn't know how to share a link. There were too many documents to read to find a tiny piece of information that was necessary at that specific time, but I didn't have enough time to check. Everything was really overwhelming. The app, the forum, even taking attendance and even recording the lesson and downloading it. And then the assignments...The holistic rubric...And too many other things besides those. All of that was tough.

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Now that we've finished Q1, I'm truly exhausted and feeling burned out. Not because of the lessons or my students (synchronous lessons, meeting sts, talking to them, teaching online were the best part of it actually), but because of all the other stuff I had to cope with. I am used to the system and I know what I am going to encounter next quarter, so at least that's sth good. I can deal with technology now or at least I know how I can learn about it. However, was it worth that much stress on the top of this extreme situation that we're in right now? I don't know. I'm slightly better, but the year is not over yet.

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Confused and overwhelmed with the chaotic of new system
I spent everyday questioning the reason why we went to the school to teach online. That was a total torture. I will never forget this in my life.
There are serious things that we need to mend such as assignments and speaking assessment
My final message is that online teaching is not teaching. It is a learning process. Some friends claim here they are good online teachers. This is nonsense.
We should definitely take the decisions with the mechanism of bottom up. When the department executives and coordinators decide the details alone, unfortunately it doesn't work because teachers implement them in the class. Therefore, they should be in the decision making process

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I guess education is like adding salt into the meal. If you add too much, you can't eat the meal. If you add less, it will be tasteless. That was the picture of Q1 at BTU SFL. We want to be the best in the universe but we ended up with problems that are being waited to be solved. Did we really need to push up our students that much? Did the assignments really build up their language skills? After all these video assignments, are they better with four skills? Without being critical, we cant find the solutions. There are enough number of apple polishers in our school, unfortunately. They just clap the system but gossips after them

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Wasn't bad in the beginning, but i have gotten familiar with the new technology. now i can use it much better

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Wasn't bad in the beginning, but i have gotten familiar with the new technology. now i can use it much better

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Totally lost and confused in the process. I felt like the coordinators and head department gave me a bomb and wanted me to hold😊

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This confusion and the feeling of being lost never went away. I always had to find bmyself and with the help of other colleagues. I taught but I was not happy at all

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I feel much calmer and I genuinely liked online classes. It might have a lot to do with the fact that I taught fewer hours 😅
I feel so relieved we didn't need to check final exams. Can we do exams online every quarter? 😉