I am so excited to share about Flipgrid (www.flipgrid.com). This a free web 2.0 tool that is transforming classrooms. It is a video discussion platform. To break down the name, a grid is the classroom/community, and each grid has topics, and the topics have responses. The responses are in the form of videos that the students make of themselves. Below you'll find a great video that gives an overview of it.
Flipgrid is so interesting because you can add topics based on whatever you're teaching about. For example, to try it out, I made a topic about habitats. I then received a code for students to get on the grid with iOS or Android apps, as well as a URL if the apps are not available. It also has easy integration with Google Classroom, which is being used a lot in one-to-one device schools.
A great resource I found is on the blog called Fair Winds Teaching by Casey Keenan. She made a post called Flipgrid Fever which has great ideas for using integrating it into the classroom. She even has Flipgrid resources on her store on Teachers Pay Teachers (one of my favorite teacher resource sites!). See below for this great resource, Flipgrid video templates for students as well as rubrics.
She wanted an organized and structured guide for students to plan out their thoughts before actually recording their video. Keenan also wanted a way to assess them, so there are rubric options with the above link as well.
Here's a way to integrate Flipgrid into a classroom lesson!
Here's the scene: 3rd grade social studies class
3-3.2 Compare the perspectives of South Carolinians during the American Revolution, including Patriots, Loyalists, women, enslaved and free Africans, and Native Americans.
After learning about these 6 groups of people, assign or have students choose a perspective. Tell students that they will make a Flipgrid video telling their perspectives during the American Revolution. They will pretend like they are living during this time period. On a planning sheet, answer the following questions:
What group are you representing?
How do you feel about the American Revolution?
How has it affected your daily life?
How has it affected your daily life?
What do you hope will happen in the future?
Students could even take their creativity further to make props to dress up/accessorize and make it more authentic.
Then, students share videos on Flipgrid. Students could do follow up activities where they viewed other students' videos and compared and contrasted those perspectives.
What a wonderful way for students to collaborate with peers while enhancing their learning and showing their creativity! I can't wait to share this wonderful tool with my school!
References:
www.flipgrid.com
https://classroom.google.com/u/0/h
www.fairwindsteaching.com
www.teacherspayteachers.com
https://ed.sc.gov/scdoe/assets/file/agency/ccr/Standards-Learning/documents/FINALAPPROVEDSSStandardsAugust182011.pdf
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