Flipped Vocabulary Teaching

     Hello again! It's my second blog post since my blog's revival. :) This time, my friend Ezgi(you can reach her blog by clicking on her name.) and I created an entertaining video that teaches learners a certain vocabulary by flipping the classroom. 

    Basically, we first introduced the never-before-seen words to learners, by showing visuals and sounds of them, then we created a dialogue in which the words are spoken to reinforce learning. The 2 people included in the dialogue were chosen children by us deliberately because we thought learner children could found a bond if the people in the video were children and in our opinion, flipping a classroom and creating such material is really helpful for learners. 

    And, yes it is an efficient way of teaching but it is also onerous, at least for me. Because I have never created such material before and it was kind of hard for me, we didn't know how to use the tools. Nevertheless, we managed to create good material by sharing the work. I created the first draft and also the word hunt practice and Ezgi made some edits. Though, we couldn't remove the advertisements of the tools we used because they were expensive...

    Speaking of tools, we first created the video on Moovly, then made some editing on VivaVideo and Movavi. Moovly is a tool that enables people to create animations and videos. VivaVideo and Movavi are the tools used for editing. You can reach them by clicking on their names.

    You can check our work below, we hope you like them, until the next time, see you all soon! :)





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