A new way of teaching: Flipped language classroom approach!

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Greetings everyone, and welcome back to another post! This week, we were required to create a video material based on the flipped classroom approach for our Current Issues in Education course. You may ask: What is a flipped classroom? I will answer your question later in this post! But first, I want to discuss the assignment itself. We were required to be in pairs or groups, so once again, I paired up with Ahmet Alper Aydoğdu (check out his blog as well!) to accomplish the given assignment. You can find our video material, as well as a short quiz parallel with the video, at the end of this post!

The Design Process:

After we were assigned, two choices were given; we either had to create a grammar-based video material, which was said to be done in groups, or a vocabulary-based video material to be done in pairs.

Why did we choose the second option?

We have chosen the second option because communication would be much easier. Moreover, it is also because we were interested in teaching vocabulary as it is practiced mainly by the students themselves.

The video process:

The design of the video was rather a notorious and time-consuming task because we had to create a video that involved both real-life and digital scenes. Also, we had to narrate the video, and finding a quiet environment was rather tricky as our campus had been relocated. For digital elements in our video, we have utilized Canva most of the time. You may ask: Why? Because it offered us the most suitable images and components for our material and also because it was relatively accessible with a free trial subscription plan. For editing the video, we divided the video into two sections for each of us to edit. For our editing tool, we have used Capcut once again! It has been our lifesaver with most of our assignments in the past. We have chosen it as we were familiar with its user interface and as it has the affordance of accessibility. While we were designing, our instructor provided some example materials around the web and also a set of video-creating principles by Mayer, so we knew what to do. We also have created a quiz for our material. We have used Wordwall as its user interface was easy to learn. Overall, the video took some time to develop, but we managed it!

Concluding Marks:

Overall, we have enjoyed the process. But we wonder about your opinions about our video material and the assignment overall. So feel free to share your comments down below. I hope you have a wonderful day! Until next time!
 
-EA out.




The Video Material:

The Quiz: 


This is a compact version of the quiz. Click here to see the original version!


The ASSURE Model Lesson Plan:


You can view the actual file by clicking here!


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