In August of this year, Flipgrid released a bunch of new
updates to their program. One of those changes was to the way you now assign
assignments to students using topics and groups instead of grids.
I made a separate video about how to use their new system for assigning work
if you're interested in checking that out and in this video I'm going to show
you the updates that were made to the student camera
as well. Some of the updates are really just about making the camera more fun
and interesting to use, so they've added different emojis,
different frames, filters, things like that. But now there's
also a feature for students to be able to screen record directly in Flipgrid
and they've also made the whiteboard tool a little bit more dynamic
so now it's a little bit easier for students to do things like make
informational videos. Of course teachers can also make use of the camera updates
to make their own instructional videos and I do plan to make another video just
on that topic. But in this video I'm going to focus on
the camera updates from the student end and I think both you and your
students are going to find these changes both more fun and more useful. My name is
Sam Kary and this is my YouTube channel for The
New Edtech Classroom.
If you're interested in a student version of this tutorial, I've also
included a link to that below. That will take you over to my student
channel, which is entirely COPPA compliant so it's safe to use in
the classroom with your students. And if you appreciate the tips that I
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don't miss any of my weekly updates. All right so let's dive in and look at
the new camera updates that were released for Flipgrid.
All right so I'm logged in here to Flipgrid as a student
and the first thing you'll notice is that they're able to see the title of
the assignment as well as the description. Then if you
included some media to go along with the assignment
they'll also be able to see that as well. When a student is ready to record their
response they're going to hit that 'Record a Response' button.
There they'll be able to see the amount of time that was set by the teacher
for how long they have to record. So let's go over here to the three dots
where it says 'Options' first. You'll notice that one option is for
students to be able to upload a video. So here if they had a video that they
created somewhere else, say on their iPhone or in a program like
Adobe Spark, they could bring that video directly in.
There's also an option here for students to mirror their video.
So this would be useful if students were creating an instructional video
because mirroring the video will make it look the way it would
when they're looking in the mirror and it will help them be able to point to
the right places and use gestures and have them look the
way that they expect them to look. A new and exciting feature of the
Flipgrid camera is the ability to record your screen
directly inside of Flipgrid. So here students would just click 'Record Screen,'
then they would choose if they wanted to record their entire screen,
just an application window or a chrome tab, click
'Share,' and then they can record and choose whether or not their image is
going to show up in the bottom corner so that they can explain what
they're recording as well. And once they're finished they'll click
'Stop Recording.' So after a student records their screen
they could still record another video that would go
in front or after their screen recording that would introduce what's going to be
in the screen recording and then they can put those two videos
together in a single layer. Let's click on the
effects here to see some of those upgrades as well.
The first is that they've updated some of the different filters so you can see
that there's a large variety of different filters that students could
use for their videos. And of course they
still have some different pixelation options
if students did not want to actually show up in the video.
Flipgrid's also added these frames that students can put onto their videos.
So here like the filters, students can choose from a wide variety of different
frames to make their videos a little bit more
fun and interesting. This breaking news one for example would
be great for having students present information that they're learning about
a topic. Flipgrid's always had these emoji options but they've added
a lot of different new ones. So you'll see that they still have different emoji
stickers and then they've also added these people
stickers, some additional accessory stickers, so
students can still do things like put sunglasses
on themselves while filming a video. Then they've also added
reactions, so you can see here that there are some different math
symbols that they could add to a video. They've added
magic stickers and American Sign Language stickers as well.
And the camera still has these different text options so students can pick here
from a variety of different text types, they can move that text box around
wherever they want it to go, change the color of the text, and
customize it pretty much however they want.
In addition to the text box tool, there's also a drawing tool.
So here students could choose the color of their digital pen,
as well as the thickness of that pen, and then they can write
directly onto their video. This whiteboard option was in the old version
of Flipgrid but now there are more choices for the
way the board can appear in the background and students can also
now customize the way that their screen is split,
so they can set it up so that they're on one half of the screen
and then the whiteboard shows up on the other half of the screen.
This could be particularly helpful if you want to have students do an
explanatory video or demonstrate something that they've
learned on that whiteboard. If you recall the assignment at the
beginning of this video was a meet and greet where students would be getting to
know each other a little bit better. So what I'm going to do here is add a
text box to introduce myself, students can add some different
accessories here, and instead of a board, what I'll do here is add a sticker. So
here for example, students could bring in an image of
something that is important to them, so I'm going to bring in an image of my
two dogs for example. And then students can resize it and drag
that image around as much as they want and then they can also add a text box to
describe what's being shown in that image.
Everything that's on the screen now would show up
in a video that the student created, so when they're ready
they could click on the red 'Record' button, start recording,
then they could do their meet and greet video where they're explaining a little
bit about themselves, as well as why they chose the picture. So
in this case the text would just be there the entire time the student is
recording their videos, but they could also use the effects tool,
like the pen, to be writing directly on their video
while their video is recording as well. Then when they're ready to finish they
can click on the green 'Next' button, they can easily
trim parts of the video by sliding the editing bar where they want it to go,
and then click 'Confirm' when they have the clip that they want.
Just like the old version of Flipgrid, they'll still snap a selfie here,
but they'll also have some of those additional options like these frames and
then when they're ready to turn it in they'll hit 'Submit.'
Once they've posted their response it will show up below,
and just like the old version when a student logs into their account,
they'll be able to see the video that their peer posted
and then they can click on it, watch it, and also record
a video response as well. Then back on the original student's screen
they can scroll below and see whoever responded to their video.
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