Creating a Vocabulary Teaching Video- A Group Task

Hi everyone!

Today I will be sharing our vocabulary teaching video and interactive exercise that we created together with Oğuz and Yaren with you. This video is created to be used for a flipped class. Shortly, this video is for the students to watch before the class and after that do the exercise to reinforce the vocabulary. I think this way, learners feel ready to class, and participate more to prove that they learned the subject. Also, this is a great way to reduce the time spent on teacher's explaining the subject allowing the class to focus on using the language and practice speaking. However, some students may not watch the video and come to class leading them to feel like they're falling behind their peers. I think there are more advantages than disadvantages, so I would love to use flipped class videos whenever it is possible.

Our instructor offered us two textbooks to choose and we chose 5th grade textbook. We determined the subject we wanted to work on which is daily routines. After that, we chose the vocabulary. Then, Yaren and I created a short conversation including those vocabulary. We voice-overed the conversation and Oğuz created the video by using Animaker. It is a tool to create characters and animations easily. After that, we decided to use the website wordwall. It is a website to create quizzes and games and also share them with other teachers and students. Once you create a quiz, you can switch templates and use it in other forms. It also has a feature which allows users to create an interactive and set it as an assignment. Besides, it has a leader-board to track the results.

Here I will share friends' blogs, our flipped video and game. I hope you like them.

Yaren's blog

Oğuz's blog

Feel free to contact me if you have any ideas, questions, and comments.

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