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 Welcome all to my blog!

I'm Pınar. I study English Language Teaching and if you want to get to know me better, you can check out the about me section. We are here with you right now, thanks to the blogging assignment given by the instructor of my instructional technologies and material design course. All good things happen for a reason and maybe I'll continue blogging thanks to this task, who knows. This blog will be like an education blog and I want to be a resource for you with my own original ideas, focusing on learning in the 21st century.

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