New Fun Teaching Tool for the Classroom
What is Flipgrid???
- Flipgrid is a website and app that allows teachers to facilitate video discussions.
- acts as an interactive message board where teachers can pose questions and students can post video responses
- A variety of filters and tools allow for text, stickers, screen recording, and other possibilities.
- Via the immersive reading feature, students can see closed captioning and translations, too.
Review of Flipgrid
Strengths
- Quick, yet impressive formative assessment.
- Easy to navigate.
- Easy to sign up.
- Simple to embed Grids or topics on any website or LMS.
- Great for parent involvement and communication.
- Works for any and every subject!
- Gives shy students a voice!
- Students can access Flipgrid from anywhere through any device with internet connection.
- Styled to embody popular social media sites, which appeals to students.
- Students will beg to make Flipgrids! It is a great tool to use for homework.
- Build a classroom community.
- Build student’s speaking and listening skills.
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Weaknesses
- Teachers can grade using embedded rubrics, but they are very basic. Teachers must upgrade if they want detailed rubrics.
- Without the paid version, teachers only get on grid. Having multiple grids allows the teacher to organize topics more efficiently.
- Students could play around using the technology and possibly waste class time, if the teacher does not pay close attention.
- Students could possibly be inappropriate in video responses. Although, the instructor does have the option to view the video prior to being posted to the Grid.
- There are so many possibilities with Flipgrid, an educator could become overwhelmed!
- As a teacher you can waste a lot of time playing with the program.
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Potential for Teachers
- great tool for every learning situation
- further classroom conversations by assigning questions as homework assignments, and then continue the conversation in class the next day
- Ask students to weigh in on a critical current event for a social studies or civics class,
- Use Flipgrid in a math class to ask students to describe the process they used to solve a complex problem
- use Flipgrid as an opportunity for students to post reviews of books, movies, games, or TV shows.
- At the end of a unit, ask students to reflect on what they’ve learned.