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This week, our task was to create a flipped classroom video. Fatma Reyhan Tuğ, Serra Bozkurt, and I worked together on this project. First, we decided on the type of video we would create. We concluded that an animated lesson video would be the best option for us. Then, we chose the application we would use. Unfortunately, we selected Animaker without realizing that it has many cons that made it very difficult to use. This application made the task twice as challenging as it needed to be. It froze so many times that we had to record the same content more than twice. It even deleted some of our work, forcing us to recreate it. It was not user-friendly at all, and I will never use this application again. Despite these difficulties, I learned important lessons from this task, which I plan to apply when I start teaching. A flipped classroom model can be highly beneficial if implemented effectively. However, this was, by far, the most difficult task I have encountered during my three years ...

Hello there! This term, our first task was to create corpus-based teaching material. We were required to choose a corpus and design teaching material and a lesson plan based on it. We chose CorpusMate because it is more handy. For the topic, we decided on "Should vs. Must". After selecting the topic, we developed the materials, determined the activities to include, and ensured that students could easily use CorpusMate with our instructions on the worksheet. Once the material were complete, we started to plan the lesson using the ASSURE model and facilitated various lesson plan templates. Because we created this material and lesson plan for an ideal classroom there are potential challenges that can happen in a real classroom if our material is implemented. I want to write about them. One major problem could be the lack of adequate internet access or the unavailability of electronic devices like computers. In our country, many high schools do not have the technological infrastr...