Photo Talks App

Hello everyone!

For this week's project, we are supposed to introduce an app that can be installed and used on a mobile device for language teaching/ learning purposes. I am going to introduce you to Photo Talks.

Photo Talks is an application for smartphones and smart devices. You can create photos to tell stories after installing it on your smartphone. With Photo Talks, you can enhance your photos and generate dialogs shown as speech bubbles.

At the beginning, you can select a photo from your gallery or you can capture a photo. After you add your photo, you can start generating your text. You can choose your bubble's style. Finally, you can constitute your speech text.

Your texts or dialogues can be generated in 9 different languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Malay, Indonesian, Slovene and Portuguese.

 

You can

• write your own texts for a certain occasion like a wedding, a party...
• edit your bubbles.
• decorate your photos with unique photo frames.
• use photo filters and different fonts for texts.

Photo Talks promotes imagination. It is really easy and amusing to use this app. Your studens can tell dialogues about their friendship or send personalized photo cards like invitation to someone's birthday, congrulations for getting high grades.

To learn more about Photo Talks, you can visit this page.

To find out more about and actually download it, you can visit this site.

A Digital Storytelling Project - The Battle of Sarikamish

Hello everyone!

For this week’s project, we are supposed to create a digital storytelling. Digital storytelling is a well-known tool in educational technology as it helps the learners be active in the learning process. You can learn more about digital storytelling from this link.

My friend Berna and I chose the one of the three options and created a fictional story. Our fictional story is about The Battle of Sarikamish. For this work, we are supposed to follow some steps. Firstly we chose a topic and developed 3 characters. Then, we decided on the setting, the sequence of events and wrote the script and prepared our storyboard. After sequencing the images, we completed our story’s video, using Movie Maker. I definitely suggest Movie Maker as it is really easy to use.

According to me, it was really an enjoyable task. I enjoyed doing this video; I hope you will enjoy watching it, as well!

- Here you can find the script -

The Battle of Sarikamish

Third Person: One day, Elif comes back home and runs towards her grandmother, Fatma out of breath. Then, she starts to ask questions consecutively about the battle of Sarikamish to her grandmother who witnessed to the battle and lost her beloved husband and son.

Elif: Grandma, grandma! I have tens and thousands of questions about the battle of Sarikamish to you.

Grandmother: Calm down, honey. Come closer and sit here. That’s really too long and dramatic story. Well darling, tell me what you wonder about it.

Elif: The thing that I wonder most is your feelings. How did you feel during the battle, grandmother?

Grandmother: Oh, my pure and beautiful Elif, I was afraid so much and felt all alone. Every day and night I was thinking about my husband and son who were in the battle field.

Elif: Oh, grandmother. Please, please no more cry. Do not feel sorry. I am beside you all the time you need.

Grandmother: Okay, my darling. When I start to talk about this story, I get upset. What else you wonder, honey?

Elif: I want to learn how you managed to keep living and struggle with difficulties.

Grandmother: Yes, darling. The conditions were really challenging and hard to bear, but I had four other children who needed to be cared. That’s why I stood still on my two feet and kept living for them.

Elif: Grandmother, you are the strongest woman that I have ever seen and you are my role model. I won’t give up anything easily and I will fight for it. I doooooo love you, nanny!

Grandmother: I love you, too honey!

The End