VOCABULARY TEACHING ; FLIPPED CLASSROOMS

HELLO EVERYONE !

On my last post , I explained what is flipped classrooms and with my friend , Aslı , we prepared a grammer teaching video for flipped classrooms. This time, again with Aslı , we prepared a vocabulary teaching video for flipped classrooms.

I believe creating flipped videos , especially for young learners , are very beneficial in English language learning. One of the advantages about the video that it's brief. When you watch the video you recieve the information directly. Also as a teacher I can add some visuals and audial things. Thus, I appeal to my students' different learning styles. Only disadvantage for me is that I cannot communicate with my students and see their reaction or check them if they are lost or not.

Thanks to last task , we was experienced about how to create our video. I choose my tools and started. First I prepared a power point slide then using "Slidepresenter" I presented it. It was very easy and fun.

Here is the link to our project : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tabex4UsNCs1cQz0MxL5MvJW2Dg0igWE/view

My friend's blog : https://aslibostan1.wixsite.com/serendipity

Thanks for reading :)

ZSA

GRAMMER TEACHING ; FLIPPED CLASSROOMS

HELLO EVERYONE !

Today I will write about flipped classrooms and how to create our own Grammer teaching videos. First I want to start with what is flipped classroom. A flipped classroom is a type of blended learning where students are introduced to content at home and practice working through it at school. In my opinion this system is pretty beneficial for students. They can watch the class videos whenever and wherever they want. They feel more confident and if they don't understand something they can watch more and more which they cannot do this in school classes. Beside they will have more time to practise at school. The only disadvantage is possible loss of control. Because teacher cannot follow them during the class videos , they can be distracted easily.

This week's task was to creating a grammar teaching video for a flipped EFL classrooms. I worked with Aslı Bostan in this project. First we decided about the grammer topic and then we tried to find the best tool for our video.I explained the topic and Aslı did some exercises. Because of the corona we couldn't take the video together so we prepared seperately and then we put the videos together. It was really hard to create the video because I couldn't find the correct tool for me and I spent 5 hours by trying different tools (I tried Powtoon, Edpuzzle, Animaker, Renderforest, Vialogues, Mediabreaker, Slidepresenter) At the end I decided to use animaker, slidepresenter and vivavideo. Animaker is a really good tool if you wanna create different contents. It is hard to understand at first though. Slidepresenter is a website that you can record your screen and yourself at the same time. Lastly Vivavideo is an application that you can cut the videos, put them together, add filters etc.

Here is the video link to our project : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_gdFMoSXay8cP4TkjyqFzng3K97B7i6S/view?usp=sharing

Aslı's blog : https://aslibostan1.wixsite.com/serendipity

Thanks for reading :) 

ZSA