Touring our town: Shops and Stops!

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Today, I am going to share my thoughts on a task that we put so much effort and I think it is worth. It is a flipped learning based video but you may ask, what is a flipped learning? Let me explain:

So, with the simplest words, flipped learning happens when students do study the topic at home and come to the class to do the interactive activities. Look how different it looks! It is totally against the traditional classroom type, where students are taught the topic in class and do the homework at home.  There are some pros and cons of it. For example, students may not study the topic at home, either willingly or with excuse such as they may not access the needed tools. They may not afford it. But I believe there are more pros than cons. For example, flexibility is one of them. Students can watch and study them anytime they want. If they do not feel well, then they will pause and continue later. We based our lesson plan on ASSURE model: Assure

Anyway, after explaining what flipped learning is, let me explain ours: Here is the link: flipped learning video and the links for the activities for the students to practice. Activity 1 and activity 2. 

Our instructor gave us 2 options: to teach grammar or vocab. we have chosen vocab because I believed it is less popular than grammar. For the vocab video, the length should be around 3 min and ours is like 3.30, it is a bit much but every second is worth. We explained the place words such as pharmacy or book store. We spent so much time on it because we did not include our videos at the draft part but then decided to add. we came across some problems. For example, we used animaker as it was a suggestion. it is an east website to handle but it did not let us to download the video as it required premium for the videos longer than 2 min. We of course did not pay and split the video into 2 parts. And it still did not let us. The reason was it let us use the image section only for 5 images and we had used like 45. So, it was me to delete them all and find pictures out of the animaker. Then, we used capcut to combine and finalize the video. Capcut helped us a lot. My friend Bilal  dealt with capcut alone while Eren helped me with animaker. And we used wordwall for the activities. 

Thanks a lot for reading because I don't know why it is too longgg. But I explained everything so I am happy now. Anyway guysss, see you with the next one, it is not too far.