General Evaluation of The Yin Yang of the Media

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THE YIN YANG OF THE MEDIA

We aimed in general ;* to encourage our students ( 12-15 years old) to be involved in an international project * to improve their langage skills ( English) , to give oportunity to know different cultures and countries, to know their peers' schools and conditions, to help them make friends* to make them familiar with the web2 tools and their benefits* to develop the spirit of collaboration; and intercultural communicationWe aimed in subject of the project ; * to make them develop multimedia skills* to make them become media-literate in a way that is engaging, fun, and exciting* to take a practical look at information they may find online

WHAT DID WE AIM?

Our project started in October 2021 and ended in April 2022, we worked with 123 students and 13 teachers ( Turkey, Italy, Spain, Romania and Georgia )

Project posters, logos were prepared by students, and logo and poster competitions of the project partners were organized and disseminated.

IN OCTOBER; Project introduction activities were made and student permissions were obtained. The activities of the project partners for getting to know the partner, and partner’s school, city, country, and marking the school on the project map were implemented. The students created their Vokis and introduced themselves. We held an online meeting with our partners to meet and talk about our project. Project teacher and student pre-questionnaires have been conducted.

Blog, facebook and whatsapp groups were formed for the dissemination of the project and communication between the partners.

SUBTITLES

SOCIAL MEDIA

DIGITAL MEDIA

JOBS IN MEDIA

MEDIA

We held our webinar with Prof. Dr. Nezih ORHON on Saturday 6th November, 2021. Over a hundred participants ( teachers, students and parents) joined the meeting. It was very informative, energic and interactive.

We created transnational pupil teams to work on comics about media. Students prepared comics about the topics; What is media? The history of media, Misconceptions in Media History, From Past to Nowadays, Smart signs&their meanings in Media and World through an Alien eyes. Each team worked on a topic and mentor teachers of the teams guided sts on forum. The last student of each team designed the last form of comics on STORYBOARDTHAT . Then we applied a attitude scale about comics and analysed it. With this tasks our students had chance to learn about new Web2 tools and make dialogues about various topics.

MEDIA

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We worked as teams again and made cards about media jobs. Used forum to collaborate and had 7 teams, each team had two schools. We asked to write them sentences about what an X job does and what qualifications needed. Administrator teachers decided the which students will prepare cards on Canva, and partners sent each other collaboration links. After preparing cards on canva, one student in each team prepared the card games via LEARNINAPPS. We added our games links on common padlet. Students used different types of web2 tools and communicated on forum with their peers and admin teachers in target language.

JOBS IN MEDIA

Firstly, students were introduced to the idea of fake news and became aware of the difference between true news and fake news and how to detect disinformation. For this aim, we read some articles and watched videos.Then, we created transnational teams and and they created their own fake news, designed on some websites. After that we collected these fake news and made a great fake news newspaper named "The Yin Yang of the Media Post".

DIGITAL MEDIA

The teachers developed a simple game in Kahoot where the children had to choose statements about photographs as being fake or real, to help them distinguish between real and fake. We collected the game questions on a padlet and used KAHOOT to create it. We played this game in an online meeting. We improved cooperative teaching and learning by integrating technology and web 2 tools. At the end of the game, we talked about fake news and their opinions about Kahoot night with students and teachers. We were all winners becuse we all learnt how to spot fake news.

DIGITAL MEDIA

For social media topic, we again created pupil teams. In each team, we had 13 students and 2-3 adminstrator teachers. Each group researched and made comments, prepared wordarts, posters, write some rules, made a survey and some of them wrote a story about digital citizenship, some of them drew pictures in the topics of; What is social media? What is digital footprint and cyberbullying ? Cyberbullying ? How much do you know about digital footprint& cyberbullying? A story about digital citizenship. At the end we created an e book which inludes all of these works via STORYJUMPER.

SOCIAL MEDIA

With the moderation of one of the partners, Lucia Canaletti, we held a meeting about cyberbullying. Our guests, Stefania Poverino and Valeria Miragle who are Italian teachers shared great infos about cyberbullying. All the students and partners said it was very useful. At the end of the webinar, we used MENTIMETER to learn the comments and attitudes of participants.

We had two great webinars in the theme of Social Media,

We held a webinar with Dr. Çiğdem ÇALAPKULU on Tuesday 11th Januaryr, 2022. About a hundred participants ( teachers, students and parents) joined the meeting. It was very informative, energic and interactive. Thanks to all participants. At the end of the webinar, we used MENTIMETER to learn the comments and attitudes of participants.

SOCIAL MEDIA

We worked in teams and prepared a Multilingual Media Dictionary with GENIALLY . There were 10 students and 2-3 mentor teachers in each team. Students wrote a short definition of the word, drew of create a picture of it, recorded it their own mother language. We used audio insert feature of Genially and created an audio dictionary. Mentor teachers , guided to the students on forum, copied the definitions on Genially, uploaded the pictures and recordings on Genially.

FINAL PRODUCT

SAFER INTERNET DAY

We created an acrostic poem and a rap song about e-safety rules. First, wrote the poem and we used the letters of SAFER INTERNET DAY. Then, asked one of our students record his/her sentence and upload it to the padlet. Finally, we combined them and we had a rap song.We also informed our students about internet security and Safer Internet Day in February.

"Hello"

During the project we held a lot of online meetings with our partners and students. We improved cooperative teaching and learning. Students improved their all communicative language skills, had the opportunity to know different countries, cities, cultures and schools and make new friends. They learned sharing their knowledge, opinions, and dreams, they enjoyed learning, they were creative and had self confidence. They were able to use Web 2.0 tools in English courses, use the Internet safely and effectively, create their own learning material. We increased their motivation towards English course.

Parents' comments padlet

We also prepared an online exhibition with collages of our works, teachers and students submitted post-surveys, we wanted parents to write about their opinions, thoughts and comments about our Project in their mother tongue. And finally teachers shared their feelings about the Project.

WEB2 TOOLS WE USED DURING THE PROJECT PRESENTATION

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