Information About Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854 to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (1820-1896), was a successful poet and journalist.Oscar's father, Sir William Wilde (1815 - 1876), was a leading ear and eye surgeon, a renowned philanthropist and gifted writer, who wrote books on archaeology and folklore. After he graduated from Oxford , he moved to Chelsea in London (1879) to establish a literary career. In 1881, he published his first collection of poetry - Poems that received mixed reviews by critics.

In 1888, he published The Happy Prince and Other Tales, fairy-stories written for his two sons. His first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was published in 1891 and received quite a negative response. This had much to do with the novel's homoerotic overtones, which caused something of a sensation amongst Victorian critics.

Wilde's greatest talent was for writing plays.In April 1895, Oscar sued Bosie's father for libel as the Marquis of Queensberry had accused him of homosexuality. Oscar's case was unsuccessful and he was himself arrested and tried for gross indecency. He was sentenced to two years of hard labor for the crime of sodomy. During his time in prison he wrote De Profundis .Upon his release in 1897, he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, revealing his concern for inhumane prison conditions. He spent the rest of his life wandering Europe, staying with friends and living in cheap hotels. 

And if you want you can watch The Picture Of Dorian Gray Summary : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8iAuBdQJUg

And here is my pin about Oscar Wilde : https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/741475526128944104/#

Resource : http://www.wilde-online.info/oscar-wilde-biography.htm

Vıdcast

I did my first vidcast.Quick tips about how to do traning while you're learning a new language. Hope you enjoy it .

Moodle

• About Moodle
• Installation
• Managing a Moodle site
• Managing a Moodle course
• Managing content
• Moodle app

Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators to create personalised learning environments. After you download this application to your computer or mobile phone you can create your own courses or you can join the courses in Moodle.There are a lot of courses in almost in a lot of languages.And it includes tool such as forums, wikis, chats and blogs. And a lot of schools all around the world , are using this application to make quizzes or feedbacks.So students needn't to be in a one place , they could join anywhere to learn something ...

VR (Virtual Reality)

Virtual Reality much more realistic than AR.You wear your Virtual Reality glasses and reach to another world.You can already feel like using your all senses. But important thing is movement.If in Virtual Reality , you move too much , you could feel a motion sickness.This a little disadvantage for you but still worth the experience you had.

We've tried Virtual Reality in our Technology Class and as I experienced , this technology is not useful as much as AR.Because you can use AR in your lessons easily but if you try to use VR in your class often , this could have some disadvantages.

In these reality applications you reach information easily .Actually it's a good thing but it could make your students more lazy and they could get bored the lesson because they don't do any search to learn more detail about a topic or practice while doing their search.So it could be dangerous to use VR to learn some things. But it is still useful to have some experince. Rather than using VR in class , it could be more beneficial for other things ; for example : travel to other countries or making a meeting with our colleagues...

So I've found a video for you to experience a travel in New York. If you have opputunity 


Wear your headphones and Virtual Reality Glasses and CLICK THERE to A New York Experience

AR (Augmented Reality)

      Augmented Reality may be less excited than Virtual Reality .But I think it's more useful tool in our daily-routine.

It's bring more virtuality into our real world.And making everything more interesting that we see , feel and hear .So it's just adds elements that aren't really there to our vision.There are some companies and applications that have been using this technology. Some of them use AR to make shopping easier and some of them use it to make games more real.

   I've tried this technology in our Technology Class. And according to my experience , I think it could be useful in our language classes.Because it's not an expensive technology , if you have a mobile phone , all you have to do is just download apps that supply this technology ; for example : HP Reveal , Augmented , etc ..

  So if we think about the ways how we're going to use this technology in our language class , I believe that there will be a lot of ways. For example we can use AR to memorize the words. If we use more visial than paperwork , I think that would be more effective on our students.And I've watched a short film about AR and how it could be in our lives in the future.If you're wondering you can click to link below :)

                          A short film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo -click here to watch

Powtoon

  In Powtoon , if you have a purpose about any topic you can choose a video plan and then you can start to create your presentation video.Think like a more explaining video.Powtoon is not a classic slideshow application.It is a more qualified application and you can use it for your presentation with more visuals and sounds.

I think , I could recommend Powtoon to my students in the future. So they could make more creative videos in their presentations. And extend their visions without boring.


And here is my Powtoon video link : https://www.powtoon.com/c/b3GQuHgsMBm/1/m

PIXTON

In this post , I will talk about an animation application "Pixton". This application gives you an opputunity to make books.You can create your characters and start to make short or long stories.After you decide what you're going to tell in your story , you can choose your backgrounds and as I see they're almost unlimited , you can pick one of your own pictures.Then you can add your characters to your story.After you add some materials you can write in their dialogues.All of this is up to your imagination.

If you create your story with a good idea , you can leave a good impression on your students.And with this kind of applications you can make your lesson more enjoyable.

I think it's a very useful application because I could create some stories with Pixton and make my lesson more remarkable.And that's mean more variety for me.

And here is my pixton animation link : Pixton.com/a/FP4B-7G