Abstract:

The aim of this study is to reveal the opinions of social studies teacher candidates regarding their experiences in the process of integrating the web 2.0 technologies with their fields during the course of instructional technologies and material development. The research was conducted with 31 3rd grade social studies teacher candidates in the fall semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. In the study, phenomenology pattern, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. In consequence of the research, based on the opinions of teacher candidates regarding the integration of web 2.0 tools with social studies courses, 3 themes as "perceptions at the beginning of the semester," "perceptions during the process" and "perceptions at the end of the semester" and in relation to each theme, two categories as "related to the instructor" and "related to developing material in social studies with digital technologies" were accessed. Considering the results of the research, it was concluded that social studies teacher candidates had negative perceptions regarding the theme of perceptions at the beginning of the term. However, in the theme of “perceptions in the process”, it was concluded that these perceptions turned partially positive. When the perceptions theme at the end of the term were considered, teacher candidates were found to have completely positive perceptions regarding both the instructor and the efforts to integrate the web 2.0 tools with the social studies area

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