[7th] Use H5P for flipped learning!

As a teacher, do you prefer to be a knowledge transmitter or a guide for students?

The answer is not necessarily only one, but your choice may indicate your preference whether you like the traditional classroom or the flipped classroom. Flipped classroom refers to a teaching model in which students learn the basic knowledge before the class through the website or videos and meet together to discuss the problems, insights or feedback embedded in the learning process. In that case, teachers are more like a guide to accelerate students’ thinking instead of simply telling the answer to students.

When teachers apply the flipped classroom, there may not be enough only to upload the videos of input. In this situation, teachers need more tools to encourage students’ online learning, interact with students and ensure students’ understanding. Here is a tool, H5P, which could help teachers with the purpose mentioned above.

Want to explore this tool more? Click here: https://h5p.com/

 

1.       What is the H5P?

H5P is an interactive content developmental tool for making rich and engaging courseware to increase the interaction with students and gain vital information about students’ engagement and progress. Using this tool enables teachers to create different varieties of content like videos or quizzes in the class. There are more than 30 types of content for teachers to choose from, like an accordion, chart, column, drag and drop tasks etc.

Here, I present a crossword I made to show you how to use it.

You can play it here:https://siyuma.h5p.com/content/1291616555693786437

Instructions for creating a crossword

Ø  👉Type the title and task description in the chart.

Ø  👉Click the ‘add word’ button to add a new question.

👉Type the clue of the answer and the answer in the right column.

Ø  👉You can also choose whether give an extra clue or fix the word in a particular position.

Ø  👉Add an overall solution word to lower the difficulty. Other options like adding feedback, themes etc., are also available.

Here is another example of my image choice.

2.       How is it relevant to language learning?

👌  Teachers could utilise this tool to create interactive content, which could stimulate visual, auditory and other senses to make students' learning content more interesting such as showing the content with a picture.

👌 Students could also be more interactive in the learning process; for example, students may be more engaged if they learn the content by finding the hotpot in the images.

👌  Teachers could use this tool as a small test to evaluate students’ understanding. A typical example is image choice and crossword mentioned above to find whether students remember some words related to animals.

👌  Teachers could use this tool to teach other subjects in English like geography and provide images with hotpots for different places.

👌 Teachers could teach different English skills, like listening skills by dictation form, reading skills by flashcards, etc.

3.       Advantages

👼  This tool offers a variety of forms for teachers to choose from.

👼  A lot of the content is interactive and fun, like crossword or image sequencing. 

👼 The tool is student-friendly and can be used without logging in

👼  Forum on the website provides content samples and guidance for designers.

4.       Disadvantages

👿 This will be suitable for teaching simple knowledge and maybe useless when students want to share their thoughts or discuss with teachers. After all, quizzes like gap-filling or sequencing the image could not transfer students’ insights and problems in the learning process.

👿There are no specific instructions for teachers to design. Teachers themselves should explore everything.

👿There is only one month free for teachers. If you want to use it constantly, you need to pay.

 

5.       Application in my context

The student I intend to teach is Chinese high school students. Though students, especially in the third year of high school, are under pressure from the college entrance examination and prefer the traditional class model and test-oriented teaching, students in the first two years of high school may be willing to accept the new teaching model, flipped teaching. In that case, I may have the chance to utilise this tool for students. I assume three situations using H5P.

👀  Design a task before class

I will use H5P to make small games into my video before class, such as the' Grid Word Search game' to consolidate students' word learning.

 

👀  Design an engaging content to show the knowledge in the video

I can design an interesting form for my main content. For example, I can show my class content by clicking different animals in a zoo picture and displaying the introduction of animals.

 

👀  Design a small competition in class

In the class, I can divide students into groups and make them compete. For instance, I can require all groups to play crosswords and see which group could be a winner. In this way, the tool help students consolidate their knowledge, and teachers can check their learning achievements.