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My Journey in Collaborative Writing

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Hi again! How have you been? I hope everything is OK. In today’s post, I’ll write about the process of collaborative writing and my opinions on it. Our instructor gave us 2 choices to write about. Me and my friends: Fatma Reyhan Tuğ and Selami Samet Ertaş  chose to write a movie review. Finding a movie the three of us would like was hard for me. While we were struggling to find a movie, Miss Reyhan, our dearest, suggested that we watch an animation that she likes, Mary & Max. The movie is mostly black and white, so I first thought I'd be bored while watching it. However, I didn't get bored at all! I really liked the movie, you should watch it sometime. After we decided on the movie and watched it, we started to write on a Google Document. I believe that using Google Docs for collaborative writing is the best and easiest choice. I highly recommend you use it at times when you write with other people. You can add comments and make changes easily. Although it was a quite simp...

My Journey in Digital Storytelling

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Hi to you! It’s been a while I hope you are all good. In this post I’m writing about the recent assignment that our instructor gave us. For this assignment we were supposed to be paired up and create a digital story in 2 weeks. I’ll talk about it’s procedure and my feelings & thoughts on this assignment but first I want to thank to my dear partner Fatma Reyhan Tug for making this difficult journey easier. Since we’ve done the previous task together, we easily divided up the tasks of this assignment too.  Our assignment was include 3 options us to choose. We chose the last option, a fictional story. I think turning a fictional story into a digital story has both advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand you are free to do what you want but on the other hand it is too broad that you can’t decide what to do as it is upto your imagination. To talk about our assignment, deciding on the story was one of the hardest parts. Thanks to my peer who wrote this story, we have a wonderf...