LET'S FLIP THOSE CLASSROOMS!

 

Hello everyone!

    I'm here again after a while. But this time with a task that is time consuming and takes a lot of effort. We are working on flipped classroom in Material design in ELT course. As an example of this topic we prepared a video with my pair, Beyza. Our task was to prepare a video about a topic we chose from the 5th grade English coursebook. And we choose “Countries and Nationalities”.

    This task was perhaps the most difficult task I had to do so far. We prepared the sheets that we'd used in the background from Canva. Since we've been using it for a long time, neither of us have had any difficulties using Canva. But I can't say the same for Animaker, which we used to adjust animations and add sound. Based on my own experience, I think the site should make some improvements. Another challenge we encountered is that my pair and I are in different places, so we recorded our voices on different tools. This caused our sound qualities to differ. We used the Audacity application to eliminate this problem as much as possible. 

I think the flipped classroom method can be efficient for students. It may sound like a new air to students outside of the classical methods. However, the process of preparing the videos used may not attract every teacher. I hope that more and more teachers will start to volunteer to go beyond the classical methods.

You can watch the video and see the worksheets we prepared with my Pair Beyza below. 

‘Till next time!