What is Flipgrid?
Flipgrid is an application belonging to Microsoft where students record videos of variable duration, from 15 seconds to 5 minutes. The main objective is to empower the student's voice, listening to her voice.
The videos are linked to a theme, or topic that the teacher determines within a Grid (grid), which we could equate to a class, or a project to be developed.
As a teacher, Flipgrid offers you to assess communication skills, linked to humanities subjects, but also for the rest of the subjects, since we will be able to develop Soft Skills or soft skills such as leadership, empathy, self-management, among others.
Main features:
As teachers we can start our session from our outlook
account, or from gmail. We will find a content bar: activity, my grid,
mixtape and discolibrary.
In the activity we will find a series of metrics on the
viewing of the videos, interactions, time, etc. My Grid is the list of
classrooms or projects that we have created. The Mixtape function is very
interesting, since I can create a list of those videos that interest us that
are in different classes, or projects. And the Disco-library is the place where the educational community
shares its activities with the rest of the world's teachers who are active in
the community.
GRID: we
can equate it to a class or project, we can select if we want our project to be
public for everyone, share it only with a list of students (only for the United
States for now) and only be active with the domain of the school . We
can also create a password that the user would have to know. In this way,
we protect our students. As teachers, we can determine if we receive an
email every time a new video is posted, we can allow video downloads and we can
even customize the image that identifies the Grid.
Topic: are the different topics that I can create in
each of the classes. We will always have the theme (topic) and the ideas
(which only allow us 15 seconds). In this topic we can select the duration
of the videos, from 15 seconds to 5 minutes. We can allow students to
"like", write comments, stickers, and as teachers offer an evaluation
rubric that we determine. We can also link links to external elements,
such as a video, a text.
One of the strong points is the possibility of sharing a
topic, since we can share it with our students with a QR that we project in
class, and that our students can enter if we have the application downloaded on
their mobile, but also through a link or inserting it into other applications.
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