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THE PRESENTER OF THE PROJECT
Name Mehmet Fatih
Surname YESILBAS
Position Teacher
Nationality Turkish
Institution Necip Fazil Anatolian High School
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BIOGRAPHY
I graduated from the Atatürk University English
Language Department in 1990. I have been teaching
English in high school for 17 years. I pay
special attention sharing my studies, documents
and professional experiences. I am interested in
internet and computers. I am a web designer. I
know sql, asp and php. I have a web site in which
I publish my studies, tests and lesson
documents. My personal web address is
http//www.nfal.somee.com E-mail
mfatih41_at_hotmail.com
mfatih4125_at_gmail.com
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SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTITUTION
Its located in the Ibni Sina
Region of the Derince town of Kocaeli. Its 8 km
away from the Kocaeli centre and the
transportation is done by mini-buses. Derince
Necip Fazil Anatolian High School was established
in the academic year of 2005-2006. Since then,
it has grown into a school of over 367 pupils
from Foundation 1 to Year 3. The
school has 17 classrooms, two administration
rooms, a staff room, a teachers room, a library,
a multipurpose room, a computer lab and a
playground. Unfortunately, It has no gym.
There is an entry test fort the school.
Great care is taken to ensure the academic and
social integration of every child. Studies are
based on the Turkish National Curriculum with
emphasis on history, geography, maths, PE, music,
science and the English language.
German is taught as the second language after the
first year. The school aims to prepare students
for the university entrance exam.
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SHORT HISTORY AND LOCATION
Kocaeli is a province in the east of the Marmara
Sea and the Marmara Region which connects Asia
and Europe. It is comprised of a total of seven
counties which are Gebze, Körfez, Karamursel,
Golcuk, Kandira, Derince and the Central County
of Izmit.The Black Sea is to its North, the
Sakarya province is in the East and South east,
Bursa is in the South and the provinces of Yalova
and Istanbul are located to its West. With regard
to its location Kocaeli is Turkey's sixth
smallest province. According to the 2002
consensusthe population was 1.203.335 and the
population per km2 was 344.It is one of Turkey's
most important travel points by Road, railway,
Sea and Air. Its only 90 km from Istanbul.
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Izmit is the central county of Kocaeli and has
the same name. It is a coastal town near the
eastern point of the Gulf (Korfez). It is an
ancient city built on one of the most important
routes between Turkish Asia and Europe. There are
large industrial establishments and shopping
centres and the population has reached a total of
371.725 including the villages and subdistricts.
Although Izmit is known as an industrial town it
is also a town where serious ventures are taking
place to become a city of culture, art and
education. The town's own special local delicacy,
Pismaniye, is famous worldwide.
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DERINCE
Derince is a settlement area which was
called Çinar Çayiri (Plane Tree Meadow) during
the Otoman era and was registered as the Çinarli
Village during the reign of Sultan Selim I. Due
to effective and fast industrialization there has
been major migration and having grown with the
increasing population it became formally a town
in 2000. It has a population of about 97.476.
Thanks to its roads leading from Istanbul to
Anatolia and its support of traffic and freight
loads in the straits of the Marmara Sea, the
Derince Port carries out very efficient delivery-
shipment and Ro Ro journeys. Derince,
where the industrial features of the Kocaeli
province are mostly found, is one of the
industrial centres of the city and houses large
industrial organizations besides business centres
and smaller industries. Derince is
also famous all over the country for its drinking
water called Çenesuyu.
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THE NAME OF OUR PROJECT
EDUCATIN IN THE HORIZON
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WHY DO WE CALL OUR PROJECT EDUCATION IN THE
HORZON ?
The importance of internet is
increasing everyday because of using the time
effectively and without being dependent on a
person, place, or thing. Providing lifelong
learning opportunities for people makes it
important.
World educational system differs very much from
one continent to another. Web based education
supplies equal opportunities for the people in
various parts of the world and on different
continents, especially in rural areas. Students
can get an education without going to school
because of different excuses, such as illnesses,
war, living in distant areas and disabled
facilities.
Parallel to the changing at
technology, the positive effects of these changes
and needs of society force educators to use new
technologies at educational environment. 20
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In the developing and changing world, education
is getting more and more expensive. Because,
classrooms are getting more and more crowded.
Government expenditure on education is getting
higher and higher. Many countries spend the
important part of their budgets on education.
This high expenditure will oblige us to find out
new different alternative ways of education. We
must find cheaper and more quality ways. Internet
may be a solution for crowded classrooms and
expensive education. Interactive and innovative
tools to make teaching and learning fun, free,
simple and most importantly open to anyone with a
desire to learn. From this point of view, we
predict that web based education will be only
starting point in the future.
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DIFFICULTIES
During the process of integrating internet based
education technologies on schools, we meet some
problems. Teachers efficiencies using internet
based educational environment and internet
technologies, lack of material suitable to
curriculum and hard integration of education
environments are main problems that are faced
using internet in schools.
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THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE SYSTEM
The advantages of the system are

• Students can have access to the system from any
  geographical location in the world.
• Communication with students can be on an
  individual basis as well as on a group basis. The
  students felt comfortable and confident while
  using the internet and as a result, they could
  ask questions about the course without being shy.
  
• Lessons can be studied at the comfort of your
  home or alongside friends in an internet cafe.
  This also encourages group involvement.
• Group learning increases the learning process
  and allows students to benefit from each others
  experiences. Students are encouraged to join in
  and also to participate in every collaborative
  session.
• Students can assess their own progress by
  carrying out quizzes any time they are ready.
  This has helped them to assess their knowledge,
  to learn about their weak points, and
  consequently to gain higher marks in the
  examinations.
• Students are encouraged to take an active role
  in their own learning.

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The disadvantages of the system are

• There is no visible body reaction and the
  instructor is not clear if students have
  understood the topics. It is recommended that the
  systems should incorporate live video interface
  as a means of increasing the instructor-student
  and the student-student interaction.
• Students must have a computer and internet
  connections at their places of study. This may be
  beyond the budgets of some students. One solution
  here could be for the institution to lend the
  necessary equipment to such students during the
  term time.
• a Learning Management System can be made more
  efficient.

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EXPECTATIONS OF STUDENTS , TEACHERS AND PARENTS
OF THE USE OF INTERNET FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES.
I surveyed the expectations of students, teachers
and parents of the use of internet for
educational purposes. The purpose of this study
was to gather data on students, parents' and
teachers perspectives of the use of the internet
in children's education. Ive obtained the
following results
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Teachers expectations

• Sharing files
• Sharing worksheets
• Sharing lesson Plans
• Sharing materials (Flashcards, Listening
  reading materials, animations, etc.)
• Sharing Test Exam
• Sharing methodology (New approaches in
  education)
• Online Help with each other
• Reading or downloading e-books
• Downloadable Audio-visual materials
• Entering e-library
• The list of educational Sites

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Students Expectations

• Downloadable Worksheets
• Online test exams
• Online lessons
• Online Help
• Chatting people around the same age
• Watching animations related to lessons
• Audio-visual materials
• Reading or downloading e-books
• Entering e-library
• Grading Book
• The list of educational Sites

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Parents expectation

• Learning their childs progress.
• Checking their childs homework for accuracy,
  neatness, and completeness.
• Information on their childs school attendance
  and truancy.
• Learning teachers opinion about their child.

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WHAT CAN WE DO ?
Traditionally students rely highly on each other
to do school work. There are some ways of
educating each other in the world. Students
agree that they like and are used to work in
groups. Regardless of using Internet they prefer
to work in groups. We can make it fun,
interactive and effective.
We can bring together the world in a class. We
can learn the foreign languages from the native
speakers via internet. We can share new
methodologies in education. We can encourage
people to work together more effectively, to
collaborate and to share and to create a
knowledge sharing culture. We must offer free and
more effective interactive knowledge sharing
websites. Anyone can teach, learn and share their
knowledge, educational resources and original
classes worldwide through a unique, well
designed, interactive and user-friendly
interface. We can combine the finest media
sharing tools.
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Things to do
Collective exams We can examine our students
collectively to detect their real levels by
comparison with the other countries so we can
remove the level differences between
countries. Files sharing (Learning objects)
Teachers can create and manage exams. They can
share their studies such as animations, power
point presentations, exams, test and worksheets
with the other teachers. Online Help (Problem
cases) We can create a system that can make
our life easier so we share our responsibilities.
We can establish a chat room for each lesson or a
forum where students can ask questions if they
have difficulties in learning and they can find
solution on line.
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Things to do
Collective homework or project (On-line
discussion) We can give our students
collective homework or project in order that they
can do some brainstorming and work
collectively. Online lessons (Lesson contents)
We can give alternatives to students to choose
the lesson and the teacher they want. They can
follow lessons online whenever they want.
Chatting facility There is so much that
students can do with the Internet. Not only can
they communicate with international students,
they can gain from others' knowledge and
experiences, participate in chat rooms, share
ideas and solutions and learn about the many
diverse cultures out there. Especially, this
system is useful for language learners. They can
learn languages from their native speakers.
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INFORMATION ABOUT OUR PRACTICES (Publications)
I have designed and published a web page for the
Necip Fazil Anatolian High School Department of
Foreign Language at http//www.nfal.somee.com
containing animations, links and tests, online
exams, gradebook, teachers opinions and
worksheets. Parents can get information on their
childs school attendance and truancy. I
prepare my tests and exams using the program Hot
Potato which is under the Half-Baked Software
licence. The Hot Potatoes includes six
applications, enabling you to create interactive
multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence,
crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill
exercises for the World Wide Web. It is not
freeware, but it is free of charge for those
working for publicly-funded non-profit-making
educational institutions, who make their pages
available on the web. Other users must pay for a
licence. In addition to this, I create my own web
pages using ASP and SQL when I need.
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THE GOOD EXAMPLE IN TURKEY
E-Learning services are used at
the Anadolu University in Turkey. It began in
1994. The aim of Anadolu University is to make
all students possess computers having Internet
connection. This will allow Anadolu University to
reinforce its prestige as one of the leading
institutions in making Turkey an information
society. Internet-based trial
exams have been available since 1999 to help
students prepare themselves for exams
effectively. Students can access hundreds of
questions choosing courses based on their
departments thanks to a question bank. The
question bank includes 12 000 questions for 132
courses for the Internet-based Trial Exams. The
trial exams are updated when the books are
updated and depending on the number of
students. Those services are free and offered 7
days 24 hours via the Internet.
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Portal are shown below

• Electronic Course Books (e-Book)
• Video programs of the courses (e-Television)
• Practice Software (e-Practice)
• Trial Exams (e-Exam)
• Academic Facilitation Services (e-Facilitator)
• Audio Books (e-Audio Book)

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Conclusion
As the result of this study, we believe that we
have a lot of things to share. Because
Knowledge increases when it is shared. We are
ready to share information and experiences with
you. we all want to be part of a greater
community.
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Sorry for taking your valuable time.
Thanks for your understanding and patience !
M. Fatih YESILBAS Derince Necip Fazil Anatolian
High School KOCAELI / TURKEY