Introduction

Hi all,

Welcome to our department and METU. You will be here for four years and at the end of this period, you will all be successful English teachers. I hope you also enjoy this four-year period.

My name is Sedat Akayoglu and you can find more information about me when you click on my name. We will be together in FLE 135 Advanced Reading and Writing I course. I will teach two sections of this course this term and we will be in Z-25 which is a computer lab. There is a reason for having this course in a computer lab. You will use computer and the Internet very often in this course. If you ask what kind of tools we will use, I can say a few words about them:

Second Life: This environment is very crucial for us because we will have meetings in this environment and sometimes you will have to log in this place at your home or dormitory. This is a 3-hour course and one hour will be allocated to SL.

Blog: Blogger is also very important because I will not collect your written assignments but I will check your blog page to see whether you have completed your tasks or not. The first thing you should do is to create a blog page with your name. For example; http://yournameandsurname.blogspot.com. It is very easy to create a blog page and you will get used to using this tool very quickly.

Tapped In: Tapped In is one of the multi user environment. This place will be used as chat environment both in class and after school. The most important thing about Tapped In is that you should send me your chat logs if you use this place.

There may be some other tools to use for this class but we will decide on this later.

I think it is enough for the introduction. Please do not forget to visit this page regularly.

Best wishes,

Sedat Akayoglu
URL: http://www.ibu.edu.tr/akademik/sakayoglu