Hey there,
This week, I'm here with something similar to the task we've done last week. It's the Flipped Classroom Approach again! For those who didn't see my previous entry, Flipped Classroom is defined as a pedagogical model in which traditional lecture and homework elements are reversed (Hamden et al, 2013; Lage et al, 2000). It focuses on student participation and encourages active learning so it provides teachers with a better opportunity to deal with different levels of students and their differentiated learning styles in the classroom. What I think is that we can use this approach in our EFL classrooms to create an effective learning environment. Since we have to teach students things like grammar, vocabulary, etc. one way or another, the flipped classroom approach is a good way to turn this into an engaging experience for the students. Most of the students find traditional lecturing monotonous since the children are exposed to this traditional teaching style starting from their young ages. That is sometimes the main reason why they lack motivation. With the flipped classroom approach, we can create interesting videos for our students to watch when they're home and whenever they are ready. When they come to the class, we can help them to work on the exercises they are normally supposed to do as homework. So that all of the students will be able to learn at their own pace and study according to their learning style.
This week, our task was to create a g a vocabulary teaching video for a flipped EFL classroom of 4th graders. I and my partner Sebnem wanted to do something different and fun for our imaginary students so we decided to write a short song for them. Our song is about hobbies, which was the topic we selected for the assignment. First, I wrote a song and recorded it with a free beat that I found on YouTube. Then, Sebnem chose the most relevant videos for our song and created a cover and an end page. Then I put them together, Sebnem added the subtitles and ta-da! We were done. It was well-planned teamwork so we both had so much fun creating our task.
We found our videos and our beat on YouTube. We used Adobe Premiere Pro to combine our videos and to record my voice. Then, we decided to add some subtitles so that our little students could follow the lyrics easily. We used the website called Kapwing to add the subtitles and it helped us with its simple interface. You can also use Kapwing for editing videos, GIFs, and images.
When I was recording the song, my voice was echoing because of my microphone. So I had to put some effects on my voice to make it sound better. This was the only problem we had throughout our material design process. You can see our vocabulary teaching video below. Enjoy!
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