Flipgrid is a wonderful video dialogue platform that academics can use to empower college students voice and increase their inventive pondering. The best way Flipgrid works is easy: academics create Teams for his or her class (a Group is a shared digital area), then invite college students to hitch. In Teams, academics add Matters that are dialogue prompts that college students reply to utilizing quick movies recorded by Fliprid digicam.
Creating movies on Flipgrid is each enjoyable and fascinating. College students don’t solely report movies but in addition apply varied modifying options, results, and annotations to make their movies far more expressive. As an illustration, college students can add to their recorded movies issues resembling textual content, drawings, photographs, sticky notes, GIFs, emojis, and extra.
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Moreover empowering college students voice, Flipgrid may also be utilized in varied studying actions together with in digital storytelling, creating and sharing critiques of digital content material, in language studying, and plenty of many extra.
1- Create a Flipgrid Group in your class
As a trainer, you may can create a Group in your class and invite college students to hitch. The Group is the shared area the place your college students get to work together, study, and share video responses. To create a Group:
> Log in to your Flipgrid account and click on on ‘+Group”
> Present a reputation in your Group
> Arrange how members can be part of your Group:
- Electronic mail and faculty area: solely these with accredited emails can be part of
- Google Classroom: Import Google Classroom roster and permit college students to simply entry your Group utilizing their Google Classroom account.
- Username: Assign college students particular usernames and use these usernames to ask them to hitch the Group.
2- Share your Group with college students
As soon as the Group is created you may then use the generated be part of code or hyperlink to ask college students to hitch your Group. There are quite a few methods to share your Group hyperlink: through e mail, share to Google Classroom or Remind, put up it to Twitter, embed it on-line utilizing an embed code, or you may share it as a QR Code that college students can scan on their units.
3- Create Matters
Matters are dialogue prompts to interact college students in Group discussions. Matters take totally different types: you need to use textual content, video, or select a ready-to-go Matter from Flipgrid’s Discovery Library. So as to add a Matter to your class Group, click on on “+Matter” and add the next particulars: title and outline of your Matter, add media which may be a picture, a recorded video (most recording time 10 minutes), emoji, an uploaded video, a YouTube or Vimeo video; or you may insert media from Adobe Spark or Buncee, and/or add attachment hyperlinks.
You can too customise the settings of your Matter the best way you need. You’ll be able to change the Matter standing (e.g., lively, video solely, or hidden), set the recording time of video responses, activate/off moderations of movies and feedback, and select caption language.
You can too edit the settings of responses. As an illustration, you may select whether or not college students’ video responses can have attachment hyperlinks or not, enable likes, show view depend, and permit obtain and share. Likewise, you may management the settings of Flipgrid’s digicam.
As an illustration, choose whether or not you need to assist Necessities (e.g. textual content, drawing, photographs, stickers, frames, and boards), Sticky notes (enable sticky notes when recording), and Expressions (e.g., lenses, filters, GIFs and backdrops). As soon as you’re completed, it can save you your new settings because the default settings so that you simply shouldn’t have to create new settings every time you need to add a Matter. To take action, merely click on on ‘Save adjustments to my default settings’.
Now that you simply created a Matter, college students will now have the ability to reply to the Matter utilizing quick movies recorded by Flipgrid digicam, and in keeping with the settings you could have chosen once you created the Matter.
Recording video responses utilizing Flipgrid Digicam
Flipgrid’s digicam is provided with tons of enjoyable and artistic instruments together with immersive lenses, enjoyable backdrops, GIFs, and plenty of extra. A few of the video modifying options it affords embody:
- Add clip: college students can add clips so as to add to their Flipgrid recordings.
- Mic solely: College students can report their responses utilizing solely audio.
- Mirror video: “Flip the digicam – that is useful for exhibiting books and textual content that seem backwards.”
- Report display: This function works solely on Edge and Chrome and permits college students to share their display. That is particularly useful when sharing displays and digital content material.
- Filters: Apply varied enjoyable filters to the digicam resembling rainbow, pixel, black and white and plenty of extra.
- Textual content: Annotate your recording with textual content .
- Board: Showcase your concepts utilizing totally different boards together with a whiteboard, chalkboard, graph paper and extra.
- Stickers and GIFs: Use Flipgrid’s library so as to add emojis and GIFs to recorded movies.
- Backdrops: “With backdrops, you could have extra management over what you wish to share, and you’ll focus the viewer’s consideration on what you’re saying and doing, not what is occurring behind you!”
- Music: College students can add music tracks instantly from throughout the Flipgrid app.
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Shorts
Mixtapes
Discovery library
You can too browse trending Matters and Matters created by Flipgrid’s companions. A few of these companions embody Adobe for Training, Buncee, BBC Studying, Discovery Training, Epic, Genially, LEGO Training, Made by Dyslexia, Nearpod, Pulitzer Middle Training, and plenty of extra.
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Featured collections is a piece the place you will discover Matters aggregated by theme. As an illustration, there are collections on indigenous heritage month, coding and laptop science, digital citizenship, psychological well being consciousness, social and emotional studying, and plenty of extra.
Alternatively, it’s also possible to use Flipgrid’s search performance to seek for particular Matters. You’ll be able to filter your search by topic and group. As soon as you discover the Matter you have an interest in click on on ‘+add Matter’ and select whether or not you need to add it to an current Group, create a brand new Group so as to add it to, or reserve it for later. Every Matter comes with detailed directions and questions to interact customers and spark significant discussions.
