I'm an English teacher in Dr. İlhami Tankut Anatolian High School in Antalya in Turkey.

Besides lessons, we have cultural and sports activities. Every year, we have a scientific exhibition in city center. Also, we have basketball, football, swimming and chess teams that join competitions in Antalya and Turkey. We have a dedicated group of teachers who collaborate to provide a better education for the students and help them learn and put into practice better.

Our School Website:

The website of Antalya:

http://www.antalya.bel.tr/

I'm a high school teacher. I teach 9th-10th-11th and 12th grades aged between 14-18.

My students are very enthusiastic and open-minded. So when I started innovative approaches in class, they were eager to join to innovative and technological learning. When I met iTEC first, I was so excited in order to learn and teach. Because a person who is open and eager to learn new things, especially a teacher, learns while teaching.

Technology is the need of our century. And education always needs innovation.

I see that my students have been using technology like tablets, laptop or smartphone etc... , but not exactly for information and education. They use them for fun, games and chat of course. But to me they should technology for education and I decided to encourage them to change their learning style. And I did. They managed. We have less chance to access tablets than laptop but I made them feel free to use all the devices both in class and at home. Because they have generally all kinds of technology devices. They show a great success in this process. I love my students and my job very much. Teaching is my character and life style. I really never prefer another job.

Here is my iTEC experience:

As I said above, I want to change my students' learning habits. They used to use technology for only fun but after they had met iTEC, they started to use it for education. While this process, I saw that they had fun while learning, had permanent information, became innovative and creative and of course therefore they had self-confidence and proud of themselves. They also got the appreciation and support of their parents.

They have been studying both at home and also bringing their tablets or labtop to the class. After the preparation they give me the embed codes of their work and I put them in our website and publish in order to disseminate their learning.

Web 2.0 tools are for example:

weebly, emaze, prezi, kizoa, glogster, padlet, blabberize, voki, storyboard, storyjumper, goanimate, explee, socrative, powtoon, zondle, jigsaw, voicethread etc...

Here is my website address:

www.antalyadital.weebly.com

If you want, you can have a look.

DREAM:

Students think and dream what they will do.

EXPLORE:

Students search and explore their subjects.

MAP:

Students analyse and create mindmap.

COLLABORATE:
Students collaborate with other students.

MAKE:

Students create a scenario.

ASK:

Students ask and do workshops.

RE-MAKE:

Students improve their scenarios and drafts.

SHOW:

Students present and publish their works.

REFLECT:

Students record visual-auditory reflections and feedbacks.

We have been using tablets and other devices for content creation, collaborative learning, personalized learning and the flipped classroom.

Also I have included parents and they have supported them and have been happy to see their children's achievements so students have felt the feelings of happiness and pride. And they have collaborated with other students in the school and even other schools.

www.antalyadital.weebly.com

www.antalyadital.weebly.com

They distribute the researches that they will do and do division of labour. They come together and search outside classroom. They share their ideas and preparations in class.. Division of labour works but when there is no the Internet access, it doesn't work.

Sometimes some students lose their motivation and focus. In this condition I encourage them with good marks and give them extra tasks.

While the process of determining the learning styles of my students, I intend and plan that I will be able to have access to every kind of intelligence such as Intelligences of “Verbal” that learn by listening, reading, writing and speaking, “Digital” that fancy drawing graph, schema and figure, “Visual” that convert the information into perceptible and visual presentation, “Physical” that learn better via active participations, “Social” that enjoy group works, “Music”, “Internal”, and “Natural”. I aim that they will search with pleasure by using innovative education technologies, improve themselves by sharing their studies and learning criticizing/being criticized, enhance their self-confidence via the success and feedback by feeling the sense of being liked.

In my lessons I observe my students and prepare them questionnaire about their learning styles and preferences. Then I decide that which learning style / styles of multiple learnings is / are suitable for them and support them.

preparing as individual. I know each student has own ideas and style. While using tablets, laptops or smartphones, they can be more creative in their personalisation learning and product innovative and amazing outputs. Tablets are quite useful tool for their personalisation learning. They can also study with outside classroom.

1-Students who have low motivation and low level

2-Students who are in medium level

3-Students who have high motivation and level

These differences make me slow certainly. But in spite of these chalenges flipping the classroom is amazing.

Web 2.0 Tools:

Weebly, Wix, Blogger(constituting free site, blog), Teamup(constituting e-class), Ivishyouto(making animated e-cards), Photopeach, Pho.to(making animated photos), Prezi, Emaze, Explee (preparing presentation), Kizoa, Fantashow, Tripwow, Powtoon, Animoto (preparing video-slide), Goanimate, Storybird(preparing animated story), Voki, Blabberize(making characters speak), Jigsaw(making puzzle), Zondle(making quiz, game), Sketchup(3D drawing), Glogster, Popplet, Padlet (preparing digital wallpaper), Voicethread(online meeting and discussing), Story Jumper(making flip book), Comic Creator, Writecomics, Wittycomics, Bitstrips( making cartoons) LogoType Maker (making logo) Blendspace, Educreation, FlipQuiz, QR Code Creator, Easel. ly, Storyboard That, Graffiticreator, PosterMyWall, Puzzle-maker, so on...

By BEN HERTZ, The Coordinator of European Shoolnet Academy

My name is İlkay Çekirdek from Turkey.

Technology which is the necessity of our age has become the essential necessity of life. As information technologies are used in common at work, health, science and social life so on, they should be disseminated in education. We aim to enhance the quality of education to improve and to carry it to international platform. Using technology in our school in the format of Europeanness we intend to apply innovative technologies in education. We have observed that our students (14-19) have less motivation in the duration of lessons, their interest and attention disperse quickly, they have difficulties to catch the desired achievement and as a result of all they have been losing their enthusiasm for their school. We found out that the students are interested in technology especially the developments in communication, in every occasion they use their tablets and smart phones, they use technology but not for enhancing the success in their lessons. We noticed that we confronted with the fact that they use the information technologies with the intention of playing game and chatting on the Internet not for education despite that the usage of them is common among the students. As determining that this interest to the technology doesn’t enhance to the duration of education-training sufficiently, we set off with the question that how much does the education-training activity benefit from these improvements in the duration which the technology itinerates with giant steps. The target of canalizing the use of the innovative information technologies to education has become one of the main reasons of our project. Our students’ interest to the technology is too much but they don’t know web 2.0 tools so we will introduce and make them put into practice.