Blog #3 Flipgrid
Flip Grid is a social platform that encourages more fun and engaging ways to communicate and learn through videos located on this link: Flipgrid | Empower Every Voice. It allows students to have discussions through videos through their computer or laptop, making it ideal for online learning.
Teachers can create topics and post a video of them speaking or upload a video that is premade on the FLipGrid site. Then, once students go to this discussion board, they can post their responde through video along with commenting on each other's videos and captions. This tool is perfect for enhancing social learning in an engaging way and can be used for any topic.
Here is a video that explains more about it: https://youtu.be/N9kMlyvCK3Q
Flip grid lets students record or prerecord their videos before posting, relieving some unwanted stress it could cause. Teachers can easily invite students through email into a group and connect google classroom to it as well. Students can get creative by using fun stickers to add to the discussion. It is also very exciting to see a tool that encourages social-emotional learning so well and tries to create a safe space for students.
I have personally never seen it be used in the classroom, for I think this would be ideal for an online learning setting where you don't get face-to-face interaction. In the future, I can see myself using this if we ever have to move to online learning or maybe for a homework assignment. This fits well in 4 & 5 of the 7 events of instruction in the TLC framework. “Presenting the content” and “Eliciting the desired behavior” as well as 3. “Stimulating Recall”.
Hey Kylie, I really like this idea's you highlighted on flipgrid such as connecting the class, social-emotional learning. This would be a great tool for a quick homework assignment. One way that I have had teachers use it in the past was make reviews. Another way I had teachers use flipgrid was on a heavily missed day they created one to match the lesson so for us it was basketball state lots of students would miss to go watch. All they had to do was look at flipgrid and catch up to what peers did that day in class.
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