Flipgrid at RuCoShift 2.0 with Brittany Breard & Jill Hines

Team Rubric Indicator Activities and Materials, Motivating Students

ISTE Student Standard: Empowered Learner and Creative Communicator

Digital Citizenship: Communication, Literacy, and Etiquette 

ISTE Teacher Standard:

Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity:

Teachers use technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments.

Objectives:

· Participants will create a FLIPGRID account using Office 365 SSO.

· Participants will discuss and explore ways FLIPGRID can elevate student learning.

· Participants will create a FLIPGRID experience for future use with students.

Success Criteria:

At the end of the session,

· Participant can log on to Flipgrid.

· Participant can create a grid and add topics.

· Participant can show students how to access grids and topics/

· Participant can view student videos & respond to them and/or delete videos.

· Participant can implement additional Flipgrid tools to enhance students' experience.

Task 1: Participating in Grid

· Open up flipgrid.com and enter code: (code created by tech coach) 

· Notice the grid name and topic: How would you like to use Flipgrid in

your classroom?

· Record your response. (Redo if necessary)

· Snap your selfie.

· Post your video.

· Respond to another video in the grid.

Task 2: Creating a Grid

· Click the “+ New Grid” button.

· The “Grid Launchpad” will ask you to select your community type

· Choosing School Email Domain will students can log in with their RCS email.

· You could also choose student ID, but you'll need to import all of your students from the spreadsheet in teacher apps

· Name your grid--you may want a grid for each class period 

· Customize your flip code, if you'd like.

· Select or upload a grid picture to personalize your space

· Click Next · Enter the school email domains: student.rcschools.net and rcschools.net · Click Launch my Grid! For Each New Class Period

· Duplicate your grid for each class by clicking the Actions button beside the grid name and selecting Duplicate Grid

· Edit your grid at any time by clicking on the Actions button beside the grid and selecting Edit Grid

Other Actions:

· Add a co-teacher to any grid by clicking on the Actions button beside the grid and selecting Add Co-Pilots

· Grid Notifications to turn on/off email notifications for each video.

Task 3: Create a Topic

To return to your grids & create a new topic, click My Grids at the top of any

Flipgrid page

· Click on a grid title to open it.

· You will see that Flipgrid automatically creates an Ideas & Class Intros

topic for you--delete these if you'd like by using the “Actions” Dropdown menu.

· Click the New Topic button.

· Enter a title for your topic.

· Select the response time (maximum video response length)—think about student audience.

· Enter the topic description or questions you want your students to answer in their video.

Customization

· Choose whether or not you want to moderate videos before they are

posted to the grid (I would recommend NOT doing this)

· Choose whether you'd like your topic to be active, frozen, or inactive & select launch & freeze dates

· Customize your topic by adding resources--video can be used in lots of creative ways!

· Add attachments so students can see rubrics, prompts, external websites, etc.

· Customize the video features to allow students to add reactions, reply to videos, add stickers, etc.

· Add feedback, if you choose

· Click “Create Topic” to save.

· Duplicate your topic for each class by clicking the Actions button beside the grid name and selecting Duplicate Topic.

· Edit your topic at any time by clicking on the Actions button beside the topic and selecting Edit Topic.

Task 4: Share Your Grid or Topic

To return to your grids to share, click My Grids at the top of any Flipgrid page

To share a grid:

· Click the blue Share Grid button

· Choose to share a flip code, link, or QR code OR embed the grid in your webpage

· You can also share via Remind

· Paste the link on your webpage, Team, Edmodo, OneNote—wherever your students will go to access info

· Share the flip code on your class PowerPoint, write it on the board, etc.

· Choose whichever is easiest for you and your students!

To share a topic:

· Open the grid where the topic lies

· Scroll to the topic you want to share

· Click the blue Share button beside the topic

· Choose to share a flip code, link, or QR code OR embed the topic/grid in your webpage

· You can also share via Remind

· Paste the link on your webpage, Team, Edmodo, OneNote—wherever your students will go to access info OR

· Paste the link on your webpage, Team, Edmodo, OneNote--wherever your students will go to access info OR

· Share the flip code on your class PowerPoint, write it on the board, etc.

· Choose One method of sharing—whichever is easiest for you and your students

Task 6: Making It Exciting!

Disco Library – want to steal topics and ideas from other teachers in your content area? Take a look at the Disco Library for ideas!

MixTapes – add your BEST student responses to show the greatests hits from any topic! This is a great way to show student progress across a year or to organize videos sequentially to tell a story.

Gridpals - want to be hooked up with a partner class to share ideas or to communicate on topics? Fill out the gridpals request and Flipgrid will do the matching!

Vibes – leave a public response on student videos so everyone on the grid can see!

Collaborate with other teachers – add co-pilots so you can collaborate with teachers in your PLC, other schools, other states, other countries...it’s easy and fun!

Appsmash - combine other apps with Flipgrid for maximum effect! Ex. Have students create chatterpix videos and upload them to a grid or have students create powerpoint screen recordings of their presentations and upload them to a grid—the possibilities are endless!

Spark Response – use a student video as a topic to spark responses from other students

Add Flipgrid to Teams – Add a Flipgrid tab to your Microsoft Teams so your grid  is always embedded!

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