Universe Of Learning

Hello🙋 Today I will introduce vocabulary video me and my dear friend Derin Created. This was the most enjoyable project we did this semester in my opinion. We created our video for 4 th grade students. Our topic is ‘jobs’. I think our video is suitable for 4 th grade students because it is simple, and we know that kids can be easily distracted. We share the work and I created the video by using Animaker and Derin recorded her voice. Normally 4 th grade students can learn around 10 words at once but since some jobs are sound the same as the jobs in Turkish, we used all 17 words in our unit. Flipped vocabulary teaching can be useful for students as they can watch it as many times as they want. They can hear the correct pronunciation and correct usage of the words. In my opinion vocabulary is more suitable for flipped classrooms because as someone who prefers the teacher teaching grammar, I wouldn’t prefer to have grammar videos. But for vocabulary I think it

Hello🙋 Today I will write about the flipped ELT classroom.              A flipped classroom is a type of blended learning where students are introduced to content at home and practice working through it at school ( Source ). Flipped classroom has both pros and cons. For pros, we can say that teachers save a lot of time for practice, students can watch the video as much as they want. For cons, we can say that it can be inconvenient for teachers as he/she should create the videos for each grammar topic and students may not understand the grammar topic by watching the video it could be a little bit confusing for students especially for young learners. I and my friend Derin created a grammar video about Direct/Indirect speech video. First, we decided what should we cover about our topic then I created the video by using PowToon . Derin recorded the voice.  PowToon  is a web-based animation software that allows users to create animated presentations. ( Source )  For my p