Your home is your school now! My experience on designing a flipped classroom video

   Hi everyone, it's me, your favorite ELT student here. In this post I will be talking about my experience on designing a flipped classroom video.

In this assignment, our instructor has tasked us with creating a flipped classroom video. In case you don't know, a flipped classroom approach is when you listen to the lectures outside of school time. So, when you come to the school, the precious lesson time is used for more engaging and fun activities. It has major advantages such as using the lesson time for engaging activities instead of lecturing. One major disadvantage this approach has that it presumes everyone would have the devices to watch the video. That is usually not the case in Turkey.

We've rolled up our sleeves and got to work. We chose a more professional, publisher style video where there are lots of visuals to engage the students in the topic. The initial process was a bit rough, I had never used a video editing program before (I'm not joking) so it was really rough at the beginning. However, once I got the hang of it, it became easier. There were some technical problems, such as Powtoon (the program I used) limiting us to only 3 minute videos. I circumvented the issue by creating 2 videos and pasting them together. Another issue was, a groupmate very mysteriously couldn't open the Powtoon website, so she made her part on Animaker, another video creating program. We also prepared a quiz using Kahoot to help the students reinforce their learnings from the video.

All in all, this flipped classroom video was the hardest assignment I got on this course. However, we triumphed over the difficulties and made a good end product. 

Here is the video we created:

Here is the quiz: Kahoot quiz

Here is the ASSURE lesson plan