Center for Curriculum, Instruction and Technology (CCIT)

How can students use Flipgrid creatively?

I'm glad you asked! OK, even if you didn't ask, Flipgrid is an excellent tool that students can use in many ways to support student learning and share their work with a broader audience! Below are some ideas of ways you can embed Flipgrid into your courses for a variety of purposes.

Do you want students to reflect on what they've learned?

• 🕝 30-second summary or 6-sentence summary: Students share a reflection about their learning. Then they can respond to classmates' video posts in Flipgrid using probing questions or a rubric to help them provide feedback constructively. They need to use this brief time effectively to explain their thinking. Great way to build a sense of community.
   
• 🎟️ Exit Ticket: Students respond to the Exit Ticket question and reply to classmates' posts with a video, audio-only, or text response.

Do you want students to collaborate and communicate?

• 🖼️ Virtual Visual Vocabulary: Have students work together to create a Flipgrid topic on unit vocabulary. The vocabulary posts could include the definition, examples and non-examples, visuals, and how to use the term in context.
   
• 🎉 Share a Strategy: Giving students a Flipgrid topic for sharing strategies that help them during the learning process could help students who are struggling to learn concepts, skills, or ideas shared in the course. They can suggest ways to read content more efficiently/effectively, how to remember something using a mnemonic, etc... Another quick community-building activity!
   
• 📖 Reading Reflection: Are students struggling to read all of the content? Have them offer a reading reflection of a portion of the readings. They could divide and conquer themselves, or you can help them share the readings to avoid feeling overwhelmed. Have multiple students read and reflect on the same readings. Work together to generate questions about each reading to give students a purpose for the reading task and focus the video reflection. Demonstrates how to combine effort to work toward a common goal while reducing the stress of the amount of reading they need to do.

Do you want students to present their learning?

• 🎥 TED Talk-style videos on a topic of study: Students design a brief presentation geared toward a specific audience. Their presentation should be in the form of a story using visuals to enhance their presentation. Flipgrid allows students to record the screen on their device or hold up objects as they present to the camera. You can adjust the amount of time students have to talk. Five to eight minutes is a good length for videos like this.
   
• 📺 Public Service Announcement (PSA): Students can make a PSA explaining an important aspect of the learning that would benefit others.

Do you want to offer students options to receive support?

• 🈯 Asynchronous Office Hours: Give students a Flipgrid topic that they can use to request support from you. You can change the settings on the Flipgrid topic so that student posts are only visible to the instructor using Moderation. Students might use this idea if students have needs that are more easily expressed verbally than in writing. They might use this Flipgrid topic to ask a quick question and offer their availability so you can quickly schedule a synchronous meeting. Or students can share something they are struggling to do and get some much-needed support ASAP!
   
•  📢 Ask Everyone!: Have a Flipgrid topic available throughout the course that encourages students to ask everyone questions they need to be answered to keep them moving forward through the learning. This is the kind of idea that can help students establish relationships and see each other as sources of information to resolve issues more readily than relying on the instructor alone.

Need help connecting Flipgrid as an External Tool to your course and adding a topic to an Assignment in Canvas?

• Visit the Flipgrid page on the CCIT site to find additional ideas and resources that will walk you through that procedure: CCIT Flipgrid Page
• Need more help? Here is the Flipgrid Help Center for more help!
• Do you use Twitter? Follow Flipgrid on Twitter! They share tips, tricks, and ideas from other educators regularly.

Have you used Flipgrid in your classroom? How did you use it? Comment on this post and share your ideas and keep the strategy sharing going!

If you want to work with the CCIT to brainstorm ideas together or discuss instructional strategies and edtech that support student learning, please CONTACT US!

#Flipgrid    #Tips   #Strategies    #SEL   #Collaboration  #Community