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The popular tool has features that teachers in any subject can use to help students connect with each other and share their learning.

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The video-sharing tool Flipgrid, as we all know, is popular in schools-so popular, in so many countries, that its rapid rise been attributed to "Flipgrid Fever." The tool has been free for educators to use for over a year now after being acquired by Microsoft.

One of the main things going for Flipgrid is its ease of use. Teachers set up an account and create grids, which act as communities for students to work in. Within each grid the teacher creates prompts called topics, and students post video responses to the prompts and replies to each other's videos. Most of the videos are quite short, just a minute or two long, and the tool is simple enough that kindergartners use it.

9 New Ways to Use Flipgrid

1. Sharing book reviews: With Flipgrid's new augmented reality (AR) feature, classrooms and classroom libraries can use the video QR code to create an engaging way for students to share book reviews. After a student records their review, the teacher can print the QR code and tape it on the book, and the student's classmates can use their devices to scan the code and watch the review as a way to help them decide if they'd like to read the book.

2. Practicing world language skills: Flipgrid makes it possible for teachers in different districts and different countries to collaborate. For world language teachers, this creates opportunities for students to practice their speaking skills with a larger group than just their class. Students can post videos to get practice with the vocabulary they're learning, and instead of being limited to practicing with the people in their physical classroom, they can engage and build their skills with other students around the world studying the same language or have conversations with native speakers of the language.

3. Increasing accessibility for all students: Flipgrid has expanded many of its accessibility features to ensure that all students can participate. Students can use closed captioning when viewing videos, which also generates a full transcript for each video. Microsoft's Immersive Reader can be used within both the closed captioning and any text within a topic to read the texts aloud and break up words into syllables for easier decoding.

4. Inviting outside speakers: Using Guest Mode, teachers can invite guest speakers to participate in classroom discussions. Guests can watch student videos and post their own videos. This option provides a way for experts in a field to share their knowledge asynchronously, with students posting videos of their questions for the expert to answer at a convenient time in a video response. STEM teachers, for example, could invite engineers or scientists to discuss their careers and research and to answer student questions.

5. Building student portfolios: A teacher can create a grid for student portfolios. Within this grid, the teacher creates a topic for each student, and students post videos explaining their work, demonstrating a recently learned skill, or reflecting on an in-class experience. The teacher can share the link to a student's topic with their parents or guardians so they can view their child's work throughout the year. Since the topics can also be available to every student in the class, students can observe their classmates' work.

6. Adding annotations: When students record a video, they have the option to write directly on the video, and they can add sticky notes with additional text. For students in math practicing solving problems or students in chemistry learning to balance chemical equations, this feature is a great way to show their thinking.

7. Building a mixtape: The mixtape is a way to curate videos from any topic or grid in a single location. A teacher can select any student video and add it to the mixtape, which can be shared with the entire class. Collecting memories from throughout the year is a great way to take advantage of the feature: As the year progresses, the teacher can save interesting videos or important moments from different topics. Watching the mixtape as a class at the end of the year will help students recall what they've learned.

8. Sharing and celebrating work: Celebrating completed projects or finished assignments is often forgotten in the classroom due to time constraints, but Flipgrid makes it fairly easy and quick. Using the student-to-student replies option, everyone in the class can view and respond to each other's videos. For example, students in a history class could share a long-term project they have completed, walking through what they learned and what they created. Peers in the class compose video responses, providing positive feedback on the work completed. When I do this with my ELA students, I require everyone to comment on two or three classmates' projects from any of my sections.

9. Supporting absent students: Flipgrid can be a catch-up solution for students who are absent. The teacher creates a topic for work completed in class, and if a student is absent during a given class period, one of their peers can post a quick video about what assignments were completed in class so the absent students can quickly learn about what they missed.

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How do students in your classroom share their responses to reading? How can you participate in a book club with educators nearby or far away? I'm so excited about the way educators are leveraging the power of digital tools to connect readers of all ages. Whether you are organizing a book club for a classroom of first, sixth or eleventh graders, or setting up a book club for fellow educators, you can use Flipgrid for book clubs - it's a favorite tool for reading responses and discussion!

Last week I received an email from a fellow Apple Distinguished Educator, , and her students recently read my new book Dr. Terri Cullen. Dr. Cullen is an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma Tasks Before Apps: Designing Rigorous Learning in a Tech-Rich Classroom. She was kind enough to share with me a Flipgrid full of reflections from her students, each of whom spent time reading my book and responding to questions Dr. Cullen posed to them.

There are lots of ways to use digital tools with readers, and I've shared some of my favorite strategies in the past like creating book trailers with Adobe Spark and using backchannels with Today's Meet. In Taming the Wild Text: Literacy Strategies for Today's Reader co-authored with LitWorld Founder Pam Allyn, we discuss five habits for readers in the digital world including the importance of reading socially. Video reflections shared in a collaborative space are a wonderful way to promote social reading and build a community of readers.
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How To Use FlipGrid

What I love about Flipgrid is how it captures the voice (and video) of students so they can take part in a discussion, convey emotion, and respond to the contributions of their peers. If you haven't used Flipgrid before, you can get started by setting up a free account on their website. Next, you'll create a page for students to visit that includes a set of instructions.

You can decide how long students have to respond. I suggest starting off with a short prompt and a short amount of time. This can help students stay focused and provide concise answers. Students can record their responses using either a computer or mobile app. Flipgrid is Chromebook friendly, works on any web browser and has an iOS app too - all you have to do is share the code for the page with your students or send them the link.

One special feature of Flipgrid is the ability to respond to the contributions of others. Students can simply "like" the video posted by a classmate, or they can leave a video reply. If you're teaching digital citizenship skills to students or want to provide opportunities to practice how to navigate in online communities, you'll definitely want to take advantage of this feature.

FlipGrid for Book Clubs

Similar to the title of my book, when creating a space for reading responses and discussion, you'll want to place tasks before apps and have a clear objective and expectations in mind. This might include posting one discussion question for students to respond to, or a handful of big ideas you would like members of your book club to reference in their contributions.

For example, you might select a passage from The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate and ask students to discuss a connection to another book you've read together this year. Alternatively, you might ask students to choose a moment from a book they've read independently like , that was surprising, shocking, or clearly foreshadowed. If you are using Flipgrid for a professional learning book club, you might pose a question about how you can put an idea into action or have team members reflect on their current practice.

Flipgrid is perfect for readers of all ages and absolutely worth exploring this school year. Of course, this is an open-ended tool with multiple use cases. So if you're not hosting a book club this year, you might use if to have students reflect on the steps to solve a math problem. Or students can share their hypothesis before conducting an experiment. It's a great way to address speaking and listening standards across content areas.

Get started with Flipgrid by heading over to their website! Have you used Flipgrid for book clubs? Share your experience in the comments below!

Also, if you are using Flipgrid to facilitate a book club for one of my books, I'd love to leave a message just like I did for Dr. Cullen's class. Just send an email my way: monica@classtechtips.com
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It's time this post got an upgrade! I wrote about Flipgrid for the first time in January, 2018 and since that time the tool has gone through a number of amazing updates. I used Flipgrid for the first time during the summer of 2017 through an online PD program for book chats and discussions with teachers in the program. It was love at first sight! For those unfamiliar, Flipgrid is a video response platform used to amplify student voice. While it wasn't originally intended for music classes, many music teachers around the world have embraced this exceptional tool.

The first grid I created was not for school, but for my family reunion! Our family is spread out around the country and the last full reunion was twenty years ago. I created a grid and asked everyone to record a video prior to the reunion, telling the group where they were living, what they have been up to, and things like that. It was amazing! My 88-year-old grandfather recorded a video, along with my 3-year-old nephew, a service dog (obviously both with help!) and everyone in between. It was so much fun watching the videos and even better, at the reunion seeing people spark conversations based on what they had watched. Apparently, my grandfather still, years later, goes back to watch videos 🙂

The family reunion experience proved that Flipgrid is a powerful tool. I used it for a few years with my elementary band and orchestra students and use it now with my middle school music students. They all enjoy it! Here are a few suggestions for how you can use Flipgrid in instrumental music.

Sharing Musical Voices

Music is meant to be shared, and Flipgrid is the perfect tool to make that happen! I will frequently use Flipgrid as an informal way for students to share their music making. Encourage students to share videos playing their favorite songs, music surrounding a specific theme (we did John Williams week in the spring!) or just something goofy! Maybe you have student composers, or students who play secondary instruments like piano, guitar, or ukulele. Anything that gets students playing their instruments and sharing with others is a "win" in my book.

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Playing Assessments

Flipgrid is also a great tool for playing assessments. Most music teachers would love to hear students play assessments for them in person, but with time constraints, few of us have this luxury. With Flipgrid, students can record their playing assessments at home, recording as many takes as necessary to get it right. Teachers can then grade the playing tests when they have time. You can give feedback to students using an included rubric, written comments, or by video. One hint - you may want to moderate all videos when using Flipgrid for assessment purposes. This means only the teacher can view the video, it does not show up in the grid. Many students don't want their tests visible to the entire class, which is understandable!

Student Portfolios

Consider using Flipgrid for student portfolios! There are two simple ways to do this: giving each student a topic, or creating a Mix Tape.

You can create a topic for each individual student and have students add videos to their topic throughout the school year or over several school years! Encourage students to reflect on each video they submit, discussing why they included the piece, why they are proud of it, or other similar topics. This puts the creation of the portfolio in the student's hands, and encourages them to take ownership of the process. Hint: use the "Duplicate Topic" feature to make the creation process faster.

The other method requires more work for the teacher, but still isn't complicated. You could create a Mixtape for each student compiled of all their video submissions from the year. Mixtapes can be shared with anyone, such as the students' family or a scholarship committee.

Collaboration

This might be one of the greatest things about Flipgrid so far: the ability to connect and collaborate with others outside of our classrooms. Flipgrid is considered a "walled garden," meaning, you determine who has access to the grid and videos. Because of this, it's easy and safe to connect with other classes, musicians, and educators!

A great place to start is within your school district. Is there an ensemble you could connect with for peer mentorship or recruiting purposes? High school band students could create videos for middle school students, encouraging them to sign-up for high school band. Or middle school students could create videos for elementary school students, talking about why they love band and chose their particular instrument. Often we talk about the value in having an authentic audience, an audience other than classmates and the teacher, to motivate students. Using Flipgrid to connect your students with others outside of your classroom is a great example of an authentic audience.

Several times my students had the option to take part in a Holiday Music Flipgrid. I would distribute a packet of holiday songs and encourage the students to practice them if interested. Within Flipgrid, I set up topics for band, orchestra, and other instruments (piano, guitar, etc.), and then shared it with several music teachers around the country so their students could contribute as well. One year there were 451 videos contributed and over 80 hours of student engagement!

Watching the students interact with each other, leaving positive feedback and encouragement, was priceless. I didn't have to spend class time teaching the holiday music; they learned it on their own. Most students practiced extra because the videos they watched inspired them. One year a student even played Jingle Bells on the Zither and then explained what the instrument was and where it came from. It was an awesome experience for everyone involved.

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Where to Begin?

Not sure where to begin? Download "5 Flipgrid Topics to Start the Year" - five easy topics to get you, and your students, started with Flipgrid!

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Using Flipgrid in Instrumental Music - Off the Beaten Path

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It's time this post got an upgrade! I wrote about Flipgrid for the first time in January, 2018 and since that time the tool has gone through a number of amazing updates. I used Flipgrid for the first time during the summer of 2017 through an online PD program for book chats and discussions with teachers in the program.

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Yet for as popular and versatile as Flipgrid is, teachers using Flipgrid will probably experience a learning curve before being able to master the platform. The below offers six ways to minimize that learning curve.

1. Use One Flipgrid Per Period

This makes viewing, grading and evaluating the student videos easier. I open one window for Flipgrid and one window for my gradebook. With only one grid, you will waste time tabbing between the class periods in your gradebook as you view individual responses and try to remember which period that student is in.

It is hard to record in a class of 36, so most of my students record their videos at home. Since some do not have reliable access to the internet, I give students a range of days to complete their Flipgrids. This teaches students to be problem solvers. They figure out a way to get their work done whether they use the computer lab after school, go to a friend's house or visit the public library. Don't make all five classes turn in their Flipgrids at the same time! You just gave yourself 180-200+ videos to review. Make period one due on Monday, period two due on Wednesday, and so on. This makes it much easier for you to provide timely feedback without going crazy.

2. Provide Some Choice in What Students Are Recording

If you ask all of your students to summarize how the Panama Canal was built, you are going to get 180 plus videos that say the same thing. Your feedback will be repetitive, monotonous and you will want to stab yourself before you are halfway done.

3. Try to Give Students Some Video Feedback, Even if it Is Only 10-20 Seconds

The that appears below was to a student who mispronounced key names practicing his speech on Flipgrid before giving the speech live in front of the class.

Yes, Elvis was the student's real name. Don't be cruel.

I like to use Erik Palmer's framework and evaluate student speaking one element at a time. Flipgrid's feedback tool allows you to quickly assess student ideas and performances along a five-point scale.

Require that students provide their email address when recording a response. Otherwise, they will never see or hear your brilliant advice. I was able to correct this student's error in the number of men killed in the Civil War before he printed out his paper.

This Flipgrid Emoji Reaction Guide , created by @seanjfahey, is another pretty awesome way to provide students with some feedback.

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4. Set Participation Norms

When I started using Flipgrid for the first time, it was August and incredibly hot in Southern California. I got videos from 11 th grade students whom I will call shirtless boy and sports bra girl. Remind your students that Flipgrid is a social platform so their peers, parents and maybe even the principal will be viewing their videos. You should caution students to avoid distracting background music, gum chewing, bad lighting and inappropriate language.

5. Don't Go Overboard

Using Flipgrid too frequently will burn out your students on a great tool. When I first started, I got so excited by the tool that I assigned weekly Flipgrid assignments, which stressed out my students and participation plunged. Now I try to make my Flipgrid assignments a thought-processing piece on the way to a bigger project. I only assign them once or twice a month now.

6. Leverage the Flipgrid community online.

Follow on Twitter. Scroll through the hashtags #Flipgrid, #FlipgridFever and #FlipgridAmbassador. This user base is not shy about sharing its best practices. Check out the Topic Discovery Library and begin learning from creative teachers on a regular basis.

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Using Flipgrid in the High School U.S. History Class | KQED

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"How can this be used for math?" This is a question I often hear and even ask myself when it comes to using technology in the classroom.

In today's math classrooms, we need students to develop a deeper understanding of the math they are learning. It's no longer about completing computational steps correctly. Math today should involve more reasoning, explaining, and students communicating their understanding of the concepts being learned.

Flipgrid is perfect for this! As described on the website, "Flipgrid is a video discussion community for your classroom that supercharges your students' voices. You add the topics, your students respond with short videos, and everyone engages!"

After discovering Flipgrid as an 4th grade teacher & teaching all subjects, the following year I was moving to teach 6th grade math. So, I immediately asked the question, "How I could use Flipgrid in my math classroom?"

Well, the possibilities are probably endless, first I had ten, but now here are 13 ideas I brainstormed to use Flipgrid with math that can help us get started.

1. Would you rather...? Have seen co-author www.wouldyourathermath.com ? It's a website put together by Classroom Chef John Stevens. On the site are tons of scenarios posted that challenge the students to think, solve some math, choose a path and justify their reasoning. The best part is that new ones are continuously added and you can search them by categories!

2. Get families involved . An amazing math teacher I met through Flipgrid, Jennifer Saarinen, takes advantage of this platform to have her students' families record responses and solve math problems and learn with the students. For example, She shared with me how when introducing percentages, she created a topic to have family members describe how they use and interact percentages at work, in their daily lives, and the solve a math problem involving percentages with the student. This example leads me on to number ten...

3. Share real world math experiences . Math is all around us! The more and more students can relate the things they are learning in math to their lives the better. Use Flipgrid and have students share their math experiences that happened outside of the classroom. They can share how they figured out if the had enough money to spend. Have them talk about what measurements they used when cooking a recipe. What angles did they notice at the playground? One of my favorite ways to begin the school year is reading the book to my students and have them create their own Math Curse stories. If you do this, students could add their Math Curse questions to Flipgrid for their classmates to answer. Math Curse

4. Think, Notice, Wonder. I discovered think, notice, and wonder after reading this blog post. It is another great way to get students to share their mathematical thinking and connections. You provide students with an image prompt and they share what they think, notice, and wonder. The responses don't always have to be math related because the goal is to get students to practice explaining their reasoning and understanding. This strategy is also a great way to help students write about their math. After writing down their response, they can share that via Flipgrid.

5. Which One Doesn't Belong. I discovered WODB, through the mathupmath.com website. In a blog post here is how they describe how WODB works. " Instead of working on practice problems during a lesson's warm-up, students will observe and reflect upon a graphic displaying four images. They will then apply their mathematical and reasoning skills to decide which of the four items does not belong and also justify why their choice is valid." To me the incredible thing about using WODB prompts there isn't one correct answer. As long as a students make a valid and justifiable answer they are correct. So when answers are shared it generates a fantastic mathematical discussion that can use up an entire class period. Add one of these prompts to a Flipgrid topic and watch the conversation flourish. There is also the wodb.ca website that has ready to use prompts as well.

6. . It's a simple yet genius idea to help students focus on different aspects of a math problem than just solving them because the answer is included. Now students must explain the how, why, process, etc.. behind the solution. Adding a prompt like this to Flipgrid will give all students to share their understanding, learn from others, and dive deeper into mathematical reasoning. You can find a slide deck with "Convine me that" prompts Convince me that. These are a series of teacher created prompts that I first saw started and shared on Twitter by math teacher Daniel Kaufmann here.

Again these are just some possible ways I've brainstormed to use Flipgrid to enhance the mathematical discussion and learning in my classroom. For more amazing ways to use Flipgrid to enhance your math lessons check out the Topic Discovery Library. This is where teachers are sharing the topics they have used in class. Also be sure the check out the #flipgridfever community on Twitter. There are always innovative ideas on how to incorporate this great tool in your classroom.
What are your thoughts on these idea? Which idea would you want to try first? How have you used Flipgrid in a math lesson before? Leave me a comment below or connect with me on Twitter@SEANJFAHEY .

Do you want to see more ideas on how to use Flipgrid in your classroom? Check out this amazing blog post by my friend Karly Moura on 15 ways to use Flipgrid in your Class. Also be sure to look up the #FlipgridFever hashtag on Twitter. Teachers from all over are sharing the incredible ways they are using Flipgrid in their classrooms.

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UPDATED!!! 13 Ways to Enhance Math Lessons with Flipgrid

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"How can this be used for math?" This is a question I often hear and even ask myself when it comes to using technology in the classroom. In today's math classrooms, we need students to develop a deeper understanding of the math they are learning. It's no longer about completing computational steps correctly.

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A year ago I wrote a post called Catch the Flipgrid Fever! 15 Ways to Use Flipgrid in Your Class and it quickly became my most popular blog post. Matt Miller was even kind enough to share it on his blog as a guest post. Since then I have had some wonderful experiences sharing my love of Flipgrid with others and have seen so many incredible ways to use this tool with students. You can check out all of my Flipgrid resources at the end of this post 👍
If you're not familiar with Flipgrid it is a video response platform where users can respond to a prompt and have online video discussions. Teachers can provide feedback to students and students can also provide feedback to one another. With Flipgrid One (Free) you get one Grid with unlimited topics. So if you have multiple classes or subject areas you can just create a different topic for each and share that topic code. With Flipgrid Classroom ($65 per year) you get unlimited grids, topics, responses, and replies to responses.

To learn more about Flipgrid and all of the bells and whistles available to you check out the free eBook Sean Fahey and I wrote: The Educator's Guide to Flipgrid.
So how can you use the Flipgrid with your students? Here are 15 MORE ideas for using this video platform in your classroom.

ocabulary word wall When working on a unit have your students record a video describing the meaning of important vocabulary words. They can hold up a card in their selfie video with the word written on it so the words are easily accessed by other students.

2. 3. 4. 6. With Flipgrid classroom, you can even customize the rubric (created by Erik Palmer with Flipgrid in our Activate prior knowledge on a topic My good friend, and awesome high school math teacher, Mark Tobin recommended simply asking the students to activate their knowledge on a topic before teaching it. He said he had tremendous success by just using that strategy. Why not take it a step further and have your students record a Flipgrid video sharing their background knowledge on a topic before you begin? Students could then reply to their original video after the unit sharing everything they learned. Three Act Math A brilliant mathematical teaching strategy developed by Dan Meyer is Three Act Math. Three Act Math is a series of tasks consisting of three distinct parts taking the learner through deep mathematical thinking. This strategy gives learners lots of opportunities to reflect on their mathematical understanding. Have your students record a Flipgrid video after each act replying to the previous video to share their reflections as they go through the acts to document their learning. Looking for more ideas for using Flipgrid in math? Check out 10 Ways to Enhance Math Lessons With Flipgrid by Celebrate Global Read Aloud all year long The Global Read Aloud is a set 6 week period that spans from early October through mid-November and teachers all over the globe read one book and connect with other classrooms all over the world.With a tool like Flipgrid, you can connect with educators all over the world anytime and share as you read a novel together. Want to take it a step further? Find a book with a companion Speaking skills assessment With Flipgrid you can provide written feedback to students and give them a rubric score for performance and ideas novel HyperDoc to complete at the same time. Many of these HyperDocs such as how-to screencast). Speaking well is an important and often undertaught skill. However, there are amazing FREE resources out there to help you and your students. Unplugged Webinar. The PVLEGS framework includes a great rubric to use when assessing students speaking skills in Flipgrid. A great tip from Matt Miller in his recent Classroom Live 2.0 webinar was to pick just ONE of the PVLEGS expectations to focus on at a time. It's too much for students to focus on them all at once. Sean Fahey and I shared the benefits of using the PVLEGS framework The Wild Robot and Pax were GRA books from past years. Choose a book, a companion novel HyperDoc, get connected and get reading! Sean Fahey.

7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Computer science shareout After creating a project in a coding program such as Scratch students can explain their project, ideas for improving, what issues they came across and how they debugged their program. Students can add a link to their project when they respond to the grid so the teacher or another student can view their program while listening as the student explains.
Debugging a program or ??? When we refer to debugging we are usually talking about finding and fixing errors in a computer program. However, my six-year-old son found and fixed his errors when reading and happily exclaimed that he had just debugged. After completing a math task, reading a passage, working through the engineering design process or when creating a computer program students can use Flipgrid to reflect on the process identifying their errors and sharing how they fixed them. Want an example of how this would work? I created this topic in the Discovery Library to get you and your students started using Flipgrid to debug in computer science. Map of historical landmarks In California, our fourth-grade curriculum is famous for the Mission reports the kids are expected to do each year. Of course, students also do state reports and various other projects for social studies. What if instead of, or in addition to a fun alternative to a report, students also share what they know in a Flipgrid video and a QR code link to the video is stuck on the map? Geography, history and oral reports all rolled into one.

Flipgrid film festival Short films can be incredible teaching tools and are just plain fun to watch. Pixar has even paired up with Khan Academy to create Pixar in a Box which is a behind the scenes look at how Pixar artists do their jobs. Challenge your students to create their own short films and use Flipgrid as the platform for sharing their stories. Have students reply to their short film introducing themselves and sharing their thought process while filmmaking. Pleasanton Unified School District hosts a yearly film festival and provides some great Record an ongoing story When I mentioned that I was going to write an update to my 15 Ways to Use Flipgrid post my friends Claudio Zavala Jr. and Scott Titmas of course shared some amazing ideas. Claudio suggested having students record an ongoing story through Flipgrid. Have one student think of a title then the next record a 30-second beginning the next builds on that and so on and so forth. What a fun way to get the whole class involved in and create a unique story to share! resources including HyperDocs to help get you started.

12. 13. 14. 15. connects classrooms across the globe creating virtual pen pals. You can take advantage of GridPals using Flipgrid One. However, if one of the GridPals teachers has Flipgrid classroom then you can become Encouragement from home Scott suggested having families record videos for their children to provide encouragement from home. Don't just wait for testing time to have your families record videos. The beginning of the year, at parent conferences, a send-off to the next grade are all ways to get families involved in encouraging and supporting their kids.
Flipgrid in Physical Education Using proper form when exercising is important. Students can record a video of the proper way to do a jumping jack, lunge, stretch, lift weights or kick a ball. As a soccer coach having a short video to remind me and my team how to perform the proper moves is a valuable resource.
A virtual library of tech tips and tricks How many times have you had something go wrong with the Chromebook or iPad and you KNOW you have fixed it before but you just can't remember how you did it? Have your school tech squad or group of tech-savvy students create videos with tech tips and tricks on a Flipgrid topic to share with the rest of the school. You can have a topic for Chromebook troubleshooting, a topic for iPad tips and even a whole topic for getting started with commonly used apps and programs.
GridPals! An incredible idea from CoPilots on the same grid giving both teachers access to the educator dashboard. Bonnie McClelland, GridPals
So there you have it. 15 more ways to use Flipgrid in your class. However, the possibilities are truly endless for innovative educators.

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Ignite a Flipgrid Fire 🔥 15 MORE Ways to Use Flipgrid in Your Class

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A year ago I wrote a post called Catch the Flipgrid Fever! 15 Ways to Use Flipgrid in Your Class and it quickly became my most popular blog post. Matt Miller was even kind enough to share it on his blog as a guest post.

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Educator Center Overview - Microsoft Learn Educator Center

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Microsoft Learn for Educators takes the best of Microsoft Learn online learning paths and helps you to bring instructor-led training materials from Microsoft into your courses. This program provides members with access to Microsoft ready-to-teach curriculum and teaching materials aligned to industry-recognized Microsoft Certifications.