EDpuzzle for Editing Video

EDPUZZLE for Listening Comprehension

          Hi, guys! I appear again, hahaha. So, this is my first post after the mid-term test, and just for your information that this post has been counted for my UAS score later. The UAS date of this subject is on 21^st of December 2017 (if I am not mistaken). Okay, here, I would like to write about edpuzzle which is an application to make an online listening comprehension. Let’s check it out together!

          To be honest, in my life, maybe I experienced flipped classroom just about 3 times. Yeah, my elementary and junior high school was in Madiun. As you know that Madiun is a small city where there were incomplete tools for doing flipped classroom. The internet connection was also very bad (not as good as Surabaya). Finally, I just experienced the direct method of teaching (using book, not gadget).

          In my opinion, flipped classroom cannot be applied in Indonesia. If you ask “why”, it is because there are still a lot of people and students in Indonesia who do not know about technology such as gadget, internet, etc. The internet connection is still very slow. So, besides the people, the internet connection also takes a role in doing flipped classroom, and both of them still do not fit to Indonesia as well.

          For the technique, as I mentioned before that there are still many people in Indonesia who do not know about technology. So, the technique can be very easy and simple for the teacher to carry out if the teacher knows about technology, especially internet, and (s)he can operate it well. Meanwhile, for those who do not know how to operate and use internet, the technique might be very difficult to carry out.

          The affecting factors in the success of flipped classroom, in my opinion, is the internet connection, and the knowledge the teacher has about the tool(s) (s)he is using. For this trial, I used edpuzzle for making my listening comprehension. Why I chose to use edpuzzle is because I think edpuzzle is easier than TedEd in making listening comprehension. The advantages in using edpuzzle are that we can choose the video from lots of sources (not limited by the edpuzzle itself). The way to make the question is also very easy to follow. In each step, there is a tutorial video for us to know how to do the steps. The video is very simple, so we will not get bored and confused on it. We can also edit, or even delete our question based on our thought or materials. For the weakness, I do not find any weakness of this application so far. So, I can say that this application is very good and simple application to make an online listening comprehension. For those who have never done this kind of thing, they can use this application and feel that making an online listening comprehension is not as hard as they think before.

          The topic of the lesson that I have made is about music. On that video, you can learn about the part of a song. The objective is to make students know and understand more about the parts of the song, so when they are listening to a song, they do not only listen and enjoy the song and the music, but they also know which lyrics belong to which part. The target students are for those who are joining CALL class, especially those who like listening to music (if in a school, the target students are for 11 graders).

          Okay, I think that’s all I can share about edpuzzle. Here is the link of my lesson (you have to sign up first or directly sign in if you have had an account):

https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/59f4060fa7a0a940f14045d8/watch

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