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Getting to Know Me: My Learning Journey

Hi There! Welcome to my blog dear readers. I hope you are doing great! 


I am Defne, and I am an ELT student at Marmara University. I would like to talk briefly about the purpose of my blog. This blog was created for educational purposes. I would like to share my own journey and the work I create here. I will be sharing my ideas and thoughts. I chose to use my name as the blog title to make it personal. Anyone who is interested in technology integration in education is very welcome here. 

Thank you for visiting my blog, and I hope you enjoy reading my posts. See you in next blog. Take care!

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