Guten Nacht!!!! I can hear you asking why I wrote good night? Yes, good night because our homework is left until the last hour of the last day. We are in a very busy period. Anyway, now that I'm done complaining, let's get started.               

The Flipped Classroom Approach?

According to what we learned in the course, the flipped approach means that the teacher prepares a video or alternative lesson that is accessible to the students, and the students watch it and take notes, do the necessary activities at home and come to the lesson prepared. This approach saves time in class and improves the student's self-learning skills. Of course, it is very possible to encounter some negative situations with this approach. For example, not every student may watch the video, it may not be programmed. They can also complain to their parents about what is taught at school if everything is done at home. We must inform students and parents to avoid such negative situations. I think the flipped approach will be very effective in the development of students if it is applied consciously.

Our Flipped Classroom Task

For our task, my partner MeryemDilara, Eda and  I created a flipped video by "Animaker" teaching the comparatives. The video introduces the topic step by step and is followed by a QR code that links to a WordWall quiz for practice. You can easily access our video and quiz here. In our video, we designed the teachers to look like me and my bandmates and I thought it looked very cute.

In general, it was very exciting to prepare the video and reach such a result, but there were also a few situations where we had difficulties. Editing the video, finding suitable visuals, recording our voices smoothly, matching the sounds and visuals are the parts we have difficulty with. However, when we saw the results, we truly realized that it was worth it.

 Despite the challenges, we learned so much from this experience, and we’re excited to see how our students will react! Don’t forget to watch our video, try the quiz, and share your thoughts with us! Tschüss!!! 

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Ciao!!!!

How are you, everyone? I hope you’re all doing great after the midterm exams. Welcome to my first experience with the task assigned in our Current Issues in Teaching class. This assignment was both fun and challenging, and I can’t wait to tell you all about it!

Focusing on a grammar topic using corpus will be my first task on my blog, so I'm very excited. let's get started! Our grammar topic is the "for/since" distinction for high school students. In this material we created using the corpus, me and my group friends, Meryem Dilara Demirkaynak  and Eda Karaca   designed the material ourselves. We designed it to suit the age of the students. We added colors and visuals to make the material more fun and not boring. In its final form, our material was intensely colorful and descriptive. Click here to take a look.

We create our material using the COCA and Canva. By combining these two programs, we aimed to prepare examples suitable for real life. In this way, we make the lesson more meaningful and help students see grammar through practical applications from daily life.  Just click here to review the material we have prepared.

It was really fun to use this material to bring out creativity in education. I realized once again that technology can be used in every field of education. Combining and harmonizing language with technology is of course exciting, but some problems may arise during implementation. We also encountered these problems, fortunately, we solved the problem as a result of our research. When students do not know how to use the material, this can scare them.  First, after explaining to them what corpus is, then we used filters to prevent this and explained all the steps carefully and step by step to avoid any problems.

To sum up what I wrote, learning and teaching what corpus is was a very different experience for me. I now understand better how useful corpus is and I can't wait to use it in my lessons in the future. Stay tuned for more updates and reflections!

That’s all for now—see you in the next post!

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