Widen Your English!

Hello guys, Here I come with a brand new topic. The topic is Digital Storytelling. I don’t know what you know about this topic but I want to highlight you in some points and I will show you an example of course. By using computer-based tools in an digital environment you can tell stories. This is Digital Storytelling. The digital stories which you create focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. I want to talking about my experience which  I create a story in an digital environment. Firstly, I downloaded a digital tool that called Movie Maker. The version of the program I used was old version so I can say that I had some difficulties when I created it. Because I had to add a music and me and my partner’s voice at the same time. It was hard for me to mixture two of them. I add some pictures of us. Me and Hale. We mentioned our friendship. While our narration was going on, our pictures flowed on the screen at the same time. Against al...

Hello guys! I will mention about something called RSS ( Really Simple Syndication) What is RSS?   RSS is used for reading contents or news from blogs and websites. You don't need to control the website whether there is a new content or not because RSS Feedreader (or any other software of RSS) provides you to read news or a new blog post from the feeds you follow. You can easily follow any blog you like or website with RSS. There are so many RSS software or if you want you can use it online. I use RSS FeedReader.. It should be downloaded to your browser ( Firefox, Chrome, Explorer...) And when you downloaded it, you can see RSS icon at the bottom of your browser like that: How to use it? When you enter a blog or a website, there is a button like standard RSS icon. If you want to get notification from that blog when a new post is published, you can press this button.  Here are some blogs I follow: I want to mention a blog that I love to follow. RachelsEnglis...

Hello Everyone! I want to introduce you a website called NewsInLevels.com. Firstly, there is no information about who authored the website but there are some information about their purpose, when designed etc. in the part of About Us . You can find it at the bottom of the website. To sum up their purpose, they wanted to help EFL students understand more and have a chance to practise English through the news. Yes, this is a very general definition of their purpose but if I need to give further information to you, let’s look at below. It has a simple website design. The website provides students some news and students can choose any levels and any topic what they want. For example, you chose level 2 and as a topic you chose Funny option. Here are funny and level 2 news:  As you see, it includes both writing and audio. When you read and listen to news, you practise English and you learn. This develops reading and listening skills very we...