Hello once again Langualoggers. As I promised, I'm here again to tell you my experiences about the research project I recently participated in. We have made our second Zoom meeting last week on Friday and it was an exciting one which we were introduced with a new online learning website and also we did some activities and discussions.

As the theme of the research project is 21st Century Skill, our focus was on Collaboration skill this week (Last week it was critical thinking skill) and we have been introduced with a website https://en.linoit.com which we can facilitate our collaborative activities with and which also we can make use of stickers and canvases that help us create meaningful activities in/outside the classroom.

Besides its usefulness in teaching, we, as prospective did also some activities that boosted our collaborative skills. Firstly, we were shown and an angel image with a plenty of words on it and asked what they might be stand for. (They were the words that continue the lyrics of a song,"Ed Sheeran A Team" Our researcher teacher divided us into private Zoom groups and asked us to make up a story together by picking up 15 words from the image. We actually did a good job in creating a romantic and a poetic story together. That activity was a more of a warm up of a team work, as well. In the second part, we did another collaborative group work in which our aim was to 'find the murderer'. Previously, we have been already given some cards, -statements of the suspects of the murder on them- and we tried to make sense of each statement, going one by one, sharing ideas on who can be the murderer, etc. Unfortunately time was not enough for us so we ended up with 0 finding. It was really fun anyway. In two of these group activities, negotiating ideas, sharing anecdotes and trying to come up with a single work in relation with many contributions among group members was great to me. However both of these activities required more time and the time constraints were a problem to me and to my group members. Perhaps we need to develop our time management skills the time that is allocated to the activities should be considered as well.

We also discuss last week GELT, that is, Global Englishes Language Teaching, its importance, a need for integrating it to our teaching methodology, so on. If you are not familiar with the term, you can check "Kachru's notion of World Englishes". GELT requires much attention, especially in an increasingly globalizing world that there several types, ways of how English is spoken and therefore myriads of dialects, accents, etc. We cannot expect everyone to speak an identical English since everyone brings their own culture, customs, their first language into the global language, English. 

I have to say that I am really appreciated that I am part of this project and it has really contributed to my awareness both of teaching and of my perception of other notions, skills that require much more improvement.