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SCHOOL: Çakmak Primary/Secondary SchoolTERM/YEAR: AUTUMN/2012CLASS:8DNUMBER OF THE STUDENTS: 48LESSON:ENGLISHTEACHER: DİDEM YILMAZTIME: 8 HOURS(in school) + approx.4 HOURS(outside school): SCENARIO: WORKING WITH OUTSIDE EXPERTSAIM: To develop self-esteem To use target structures ( shoud/shouldn’t/If clauses) ( past and future tenses)

ÇAKMAK İLKÖĞRETİM OKULU

Lesson plan: part I

•Introducing the tool and the theme, (1hr)

•Voting and making the groups, (15mins)

•Brainstorming and planning (1hr)

• Organizing the questions,( 1hr)

•2 for the interviews, 2 for all the videos and related tasks, (outside school)

•Writing comments/ providing feedback(1hr)

•Presentations (2hrs)

•Evaluation (1hr)

Tourist AttractionsSultan Ahmet-Covered bazaar

Ministry of Culture and Tourism

CAN HAKSOYTravel agencies

Improving One’s Look

Pharmacy Okyanus Eczanesi -Nur Markovamis DieticianErdem Hastanesi – Göksu Kepçeli

Protecting Our School

MunicipalityCleaning staff

Our headmaster

Practising EnglishGökçen UYSAL-engineer

Pırıl Turhan-English teacherTourists

Leslie Kountrie –ETLeslie’s students-SKYPE

PLAN OLUŞTURMA UZMANLAR

Voting and Grouping

First ,we organized the topics and the groups

Then,they opened blog pages and facebook groups

They brainstormed and uploaded their plans on the blogs and facebook

FACEBOOK(n example of the questions to an

expert)

http://protenctingourschool.blogcu.com/

Blog pages(They uploaded videos and documents

to their blogs)

http://improvingoneslook.blogspot.com/

Your subtopic goes here

You can click and then listen our records and

comments

Our teamup link

•CKMK-ENhttp://itec-wookie.eun.org/wookie/wservices/wookie.apache.org/widgets/teamup/index.html?idkey=gPgQeZVkWUV2x0aW.sl.Y90kr1sVAk.eq.&proxy=http://itec-wookie.eun.org:8090/wookie/proxy&st=1319702712078%3A1319702712078%3Ahttp%253A%252F%252Fwookie.apache.org%252Fwidgets%252Fteamup%3Awookie%3A%252Fwookie%252Fwservices%252Fwookie.apache.org%252Fwidgets%252Fteamup%252Findex.html%3A0%3AgPgQeZVkWUV2x0aW.sl.Y90kr1sVAk.eq.&locale=tr-TR

http://wildfire.gigya.com/facebook/preview.aspx?fb_sig_api_key=f7667e9ebccf2157d6f15f991a5e3ce9&wid=607049821&p=bHQ9MTMyMzAxNTE4NDMzNSZwdD%2axMzIzMDE1MTkxMTg3JnA9OTc1MDcyJmQ9MDAwJTIwLSUyMFZva2klMjBXaWRnZXQmbj1mYWNlYm9vayZnPTEmbz%2a2OWMzYjQyNGM5MmY%2aNWQzOTE1ODJlY2E%2aNGViNzVlYiZvZj%2aw&s=1

Your subtopic goes herehttp://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fvoicethread.com%2F%23u2290341.b2480818.i13130042&h=oAQEeRTV0AQEFU9HkgGDlBIxh04DuyOv5KY8uX0iqWE0o3A

They also record their announcements to the voicethread and voki avatars.

Learners provide feedback on each others work

They made comments on blogs,teamup and facebook

The talked with the experts on Skype as well as

face to face communication.

We used SKYPE for Video Conferences

MENTAL NOTES

I take mental notes every week sothat students could follow their progress.However, there should have been a part for private comments as well.I think teamup mental notes part is not enough for evaluation.

Problems •Our curriculumn isn’t suitable for such kind of tasks .We have so much to handle and we have to keep up with the curriculumn because at the end students have a common assessment test.(SBS)

•Our curriculumn topics are hard to be hand in hand with this kind of learning story. I have had to choose topics on my own and then made students use target structures according to the curriculumn.

•Students cannot upload flashnews to the teamup in the class. Teamup gives error in the class.

Problems

•Not every single student has internet at home.

•Some parents don’t let students go outside on their own.

•As our classes are so crowded,it is difficult to mentor each of them individually.

•According to our ‘Ministry of Education’ some websides are forbidden and it hampers students to search and to write comments on blogs and facebook.