Category: Genel

Tsundoku

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Tsundoku is a Japanese word which means to buy books that you cannot read at all and pile them up. I think it is the disease of this age. However, to be a good reader, I think it is best to be surrounded by books. To want to be a good reader is not enough, you also have to buy the time in order to read the book that you bought.

Moreover, to pile up the books that you get from a bookshop or an online shopping website is a  problem that every good reader will face someday. This situation creates a feeling of guilt,  but the books we pile and don’t read have an effect on us as much as the books we read.  The unread books remind us that we still do not know everything and thus they keep us away from egoism. If we do not keep our library expanding, our enthusiasm to read books and personal evolution will stop eventually. The unread books keep us wonder continuously.

Do not hesitate to fill your personal library with unread books. They will expand your curiosity and imagination. A library filled with books that you read will lose its power, but a library with books that you haven’t read yet will be a remarkable one. So, do not afraid to pile up some books. 🙂

Let’s Begin :)

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When I first read this motivational sentence, I spent some time thinking on it. Everyone wants to be great, no one is okay with the average. The thinking process is fine, but the way through greatness is the hard one. But, hey, if you do not start, you will never know. Besides life treats different to everyone, so who knows? 🙂

I just want to mention one or two things more. I searched this sentence both in Turkish and English pages, and the difference between them made me felt pity for my country. On English websites, there are articles about this sentence, they thought really hard on it and made comments about the sentence and the author himself, who is a motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar. They came up with new ideas and new motivational speeches after the sentence.

On the other hand, when I wrote the Turkish meaning of this sentence, Google brought me only quote sites, motivational sentences sites, adages sites, whosesentencesarethose.com kind of sites… It was really disappointing. We stopped thinking, we are not creating anymore, we are not producing. We should be motivated by these sentences and achieve greater successes, but we’d rather make show.

We must stop this nonsense, and put our reality glasses on at once. So let’s begin 🙂

Finding the Right Book

 

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There is no quote like this that ever suits me more. I was a social child who plays a lot with her friends, like football, basketball, table tennis, etc. I was in two teams simultaneously, football and basketball, and I was the captain of both teams. So we had training almost every day.  I didn’t have time to read a book a lot and I didn’t want to read as well. I was feeling tired after the training so I was falling asleep when I came home. I even had hard times while doing my homework. There were no books that tear me up from sports. But then a sudden injury destroyed my sports life, and I became lonelier. That time was the turning point for me. I slowly started to realize that we have lots of books at home. I started with thinner books but got bored immediately. I threw the book away, and I kept frowning. Then my brother suggested a book series which is called Dragonlance, I had some concerns about those books but once I started to read them, my whole life changed. I read those books 10 times until now, and I cannot keep myself reading them once a year. After those books, my brother came up with another book series called Forgotten Realms which made us even more eager to read. That is my story of how I started reading.

I continuously buy books and pile them up somewhere in the house, and read them slowly. Those books make me aware that I don’t know everything, and I still have a lot to learn.

Creativity in Education

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To shape the future, we should first shape the education itself. If we give importance to creativity and be aware of the individual differences, education will be the hope of our future. Creativity means to produce not only solutions but problems as well. Thus we can reach originality, original problems, original solutions. Creativity means thinking about different things and making connections from different relationships.

In Turkey, we give the question and we teach the easiest way to the solution. We do not allow the students to think, and we do not give time to solve problems. We are impatient. However, education requires patience. The way to a bright future is not that easy, our children must know how to solve a problem, we do not need prepared questions and answers. We need citizens who can think. The best way to make our children think is to feed their creativity. Let them do something, do not give everything prepared, waiting for them to consume.

We have to teach them how to think in a productive way, they should be able to produce, not only criticize. They should be able to observe products rather than their own in order to collect knowledge and store them in case it will be needed in the production stage. We should let them broaden their imagination. We should prepare self-learning environments that they can learn, and gain practice on their own.

We have a lot to do. So we should move as fast as we can.

Powtoon

Hello friends, in this post I want to introduce Powtoon. Using animation videos helps you to attract attention easily, especially in this era. Powtoon is a great, easy-to-use, free animation software (there is a Pro version too). You can create unique animations with the tools the site provides you or you can edit a ready-to-use animation. There are hundreds of different backgrounds, props, shapes, images, videos, and effect that you can use in your animation video, you can also add sound, music or even your own voice.

I highly recommend you to go Powtoon, and start creating amazing animation videos for your classroom.

Here is mine which I prepared it for my 7th graders to teach Present Perfect Continuous and for the educational video assignment of Multimedia class in BAU.

Enjoy 🙂

     Multimedia – May The Tenses Be With You!