I Flip For Flip

Students will:

• Be able to use Flip as a tool to communicate an idea or to collaborate with others.

Vocabulary Words:

These are terms used on Flip that you may want to share with students:

1. Grids: A Grid is your classroom or community of learners. Grids house your Topics.
    
2. Topics: Topics are your discussion starters or prompts. Students respond to Topics.
    
3. Responses: Responses are the students’ videos they record or upload and add to the Topic. This is how they share their voice!
    
4. Empathy: Empathy is the ability to understand and share how another person is feeling.

Note: If you are choosing to use Flip for content, you may have specific vocabulary words.

To prepare for this lesson:

• Watch The Ultimate Teacher Guide for Flip.

• Next watch how the students interact with Flipgrid. 

• Create a free Flip teacher account.

• Set up your Flip class. You will decide here how you want students to access the Flip (permissions, login, public, etc).  

• Add your students to Flip. Also, make yourself a student as well so you can demonstrate to kids. The website will walk you through it. Flip will allow you to print out login cards for each student.

• Create a topic you want the students to respond to.

• Examples could be as simple as creating a New Year’s Resolution to explaining a Math problem. A student can also pose questions that can be answered by others. There is no limit to this tool.

• Decide how you want students to get to the site. (Folder, LMS, Google Classroom, etc) Have the link ready for students.  

• Practice creating your own video on Flip.

• If this is your first time using Flip, It is a good idea to start simple and perhaps use it as an exit ticket.  Pose a question for the students to answer. A sample question could be, “What did you learn about…?” or “What did you think about…?”

• Some great ideas on how to use Flip can be found under Ditch that Textbook's  blog. 

• Test on a student machine to ensure everything works correctly.

See Accommodations Page and Charts on the 21things4students.net site in the Teacher Resources. 

Directions for this activity:

1. After you have finished teaching a unit. Say to the students, “ Today, you are going to share what you learned about…” “We will do this by using a new tool called Flip.”

2. Demonstrate Flip.

   • How to log in.

   • How to create the recording.

   • Talk about skills of effective public speaking, stressing EMPATHY.  

   • Show the video Students: Getting Started with Flipgrid.

3. Go over the rules of effective communication

4. Have the students create their own Flip or have them pair up with a partner depending on the activity they are doing. 

Different options for assessing the students:

• Observations
• Check for understanding
• Flipgrid rubric