Our Minibook of Adventures: Humanizing Digital Spaces via Vision Boards
Relay Journal, cilt.7, sa.1, ss.37-47, 2024 (Hakemsiz Dergi)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 7 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2024
- Doi Numarası: 10.37237/relay/070104
- Dergi Adı: Relay Journal
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.37-47
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This reflective narrative offers a suggestion for one way to humanize digital spaces: designing and presenting a vision board at a hybrid “vision board party.” It also encourages incorporating periodic follow-up components to help students reflect on their progress and revise their boards over time. The activity is aimed at integrating a popular social media tool, YouTube, while allowing students space to practice vision boarding and enhance their social emotional capacities, such as self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness and relationship skills. This paper illustrates how technology and digital resources can bridge language learning in the classroom and beyond, with a consideration of varying learning styles and preferences. In this process, I invited one of my students in a four-skills general English training course to narrate and reflect on her vision-boarding experience, scaffolding the process for educators and learners promoting social-emotional skills and autonomy. Keywords: humanizing digital spaces, social media tools, vision boards, learner stories, teachers’ job crafting