in this video series about how to teach
remotely I'm going to be showcasing some
of the best technology programs you can
use to teach your students from a
distance all the programs I'm going to
be showing in this series are completely
free a lot of EdTech companies out there
that normally cost money have also made
their programs available for teachers to
use for the rest of this school year
free of charge my goal with this series
is to show you how you can continue to
plan engaging and rigorous lessons for
your students even when you're not in
the classroom with them in this video
I'm gonna teach you how you can teach a
super engaging lesson using a program
called flip grip flip grid is an
incredibly dynamic platform where
students can access content and then
respond to prompts by creating short
videos once a student creates a video
the rest of the class is able to view
and respond to that video
I love bulletin board programs like flip
grid for remote learning because it
still allows students and teachers to
interact together and can combat some of
that feeling of loneliness that might
come from distance learning my name is
Sam Carey and this is my youtube channel
for the new EdTech classroom if you find
the tips that I share in this video
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miss any of my video updates I've been
using flipgrid with my students for
quite some time but it's also a tool
that is almost perfect for remote
learning one of the many great things
about flipgrid is that students can
access it from a computer a tablet or a
mobile device so let's jump in and see
what flipgrid is all about teachers can
sign up for a flipgrid account for free
go to the educator signup button then
you can sign up with either a Google
account or a Microsoft account I'll fill
out some basic information about myself
to create my account and to get started
I'm going to click start my grid a grid
is essentially like a classroom so here
I'm going to name the grid the name of
my class next you're going to select a
grid type selecting a grid type is going
to control the privacy setting
of your account if you select school
email that will only allow people who
enter into your grid with either a
Microsoft or a Google school email
account to be able to join your grid I
always choose school email notice below
that there is a flip code you can
customize the back end of that URL if
you want once you're ready click Next
here you'll add your school email
domains to control who has access to
your grip now that the grid is ready
you'll see you have lots of options for
how you could share the link with
students I usually skip this step
because I haven't actually created any
assignments I'm going to show you how to
share the assignments with students in a
little bit ok now we're on the my grades
page you want to think of a grid like an
individual class that you can add
assignments to if I want to add new
classes I can click on add new grid and
then go through the same process that I
just went through to add individual
grids which I'm going to treat separate
classes that I teach notice the drop
down action menu on the grid a useful
function here is that if you have a
co-teacher that you want to add you can
click Add copilot enter your coat eaters
name click the invite button and that's
going to send that teacher an email
inviting them to be a co teacher on your
account
note that the person you invite will
need to already have a flipgrid account
set up in order for this to work before
I show you how to create an assignment
let's first look at what an assignment
in flipgrid would actually look like so
for this assignment students write a
book and then recorded a video review of
that book this would potentially be a
great thing to do for remote learning
you can see the assignment title and the
gift and instructions at the top and in
a second I'm going to show you how to
customize all that when I scroll down on
the page I'm able to see all the
individual videos that my students have
posted as well as the replies that other
students posted to each other when I
click on an individual student I'm able
to view the specific video that they
posted for this assignment you'll see
there's a place where I am able to
provide my own video feedback to
students if I choose not to record a
video response
I can also
just add written feedback here at the
bottom you'll see that I also have the
opportunity as the teacher to reply to
the student and if I choose this option
that's going to be posted for the rest
of the class to see and you can see here
that another student already replied to
the student with her own video feedback
about that other students topic what I
really love about this for remote
learning is that it's going to give
students the option to still continue to
interact with each other in meaningful
ways all right now I'm going to show you
what it would look like when a student
logs into flipgrid
when they scroll down they're going to
be able to see the video responses that
all of their classmates have posted when
they're ready to post their own video
they'll click on the green plus button
and they can also view and respond to
each of their classmates videos in the
grid now that you've seen what an
individual assignment looks like I want
to show you where you can go in flipgrid
to access a ton of pre created
assignments that you can take and use as
is or edit however you'd like if you go
up to the disco library tab you'll see
that in the library are an enormous
amount of assignments that have already
been created by teachers or by other
education technology companies that have
integrations with flipgrid so for
example if you scroll down to the
featured disco playlist and you click on
the flo Cabul airy playlist you'll see
that vocabulary has pre created a bunch
of different flipgrid lessons that you
could select and add directly to your
grid you'll see that you can also fully
customize that assignment we're gonna
take a look at how to do that in just a
moment and the pre created assignments
already come with a resource that you
can use in order to introduce a topic or
lesson to your students in addition to
the pre created playlist you'll see that
there is also a place where you can
search for topics that you are looking
for so let's just say for example that
I'm interested in teaching my students
about planets I can search for lessons
about planets and there I see that
nearly
900 lessons have already been made in
flipgrid I like to look at the
engagement time as well as the number of
times an assignment has been used in
order to gauge what assignment I might
want to use with my students like the
other assignment we just looked at this
assignment also comes with a resource
for students and you can add it to your
grid with a single click of a button
notice once I've added new topics from
the disco library they show up in my
grid and are ready for me to use with
students all right let's go ahead and
jump into one of these assignments so
you can see how it works in order to
edit the assignment you're going to want
to go to actions and select edit topic
here you'll see that I'm able to change
the title of the topic you can change
the duration of the recording time the
video response that students create can
be as short as 15 seconds or as long as
5 minutes next you'll see that you're
able to edit the instructions however
you'd like
if you click delete focus it's now going
to allow you to fully customize how you
want to introduce the assignment there
are really loads of different options
here I particularly like recording my
own video for students the first time
that I'm going to ask them to do a flip
grid assignment in part just to model
what I'm looking for and also break the
ice a little bit and showing students
that I'm willing to take the same risk
that I'm asking them to take by
recording a video first so to record a
video you're going to click on record
video this video creation studio looks
exactly the way that the student
creation studio would look so I'm going
to walk through all the different
features that are available when
recording a video first you'll see up at
the top that you can add a sticky note
adding a sticky note would allow you to
actually add some text directly to the
video then at the bottom you'll see that
there are different customization
options the first is to filter the video
for color so let's take a look at what
some of those color filters would look
like you'll notice the pixilated feature
so this is actually a great one for
students if they're feeling
uncomfortable with showing their face in
the video
they can pixelate their face and still
continue to participate all right I like
this super cool one so let's go with
that next if you wanted to add text in
another way other than a sticky note you
could also just write directly on to the
video by clicking on the text icon
select a color that you like type what
you want to write and you can also
select that text box and drag it
wherever you want it to go there are
stickers that you can add to your video
this sticker can also be expanded as big
as you want it and this is another way
that students could potentially hide
their face if they weren't super excited
about having their face in a video
there's also a drawing function so you
and your students could draw directly on
to the video
next is a board option you can choose
the board option to treat this
essentially like a whiteboard or a black
board where you might just want to add
some different texts or instructions
lastly there's a custom sticker choice
here since I used bitmoji and my
students are really familiar with the
fact that I do that and I want to keep
some of that familiarity I might select
a bitmoji drop it in scale it down and
there you see that I have a fully
customized screen now that I'm ready to
record my video I'm going to strive to
provide my students with a very brief
explanation about what the assignment is
going to be about and I'm going to model
for them my own answer to the question
about how I'm personally feeling about
remote learning so once I'm ready to
record I'm going to hit record oops
oh no I realize I'm not ready okay so
here I don't want this video in I'm
going to click that redo button this
happens with students all the time if
they want to redo click on redo confirm
all right now I'm going to try again
once I'm done with that video I'm going
to click Next and here I can re-watch
the video that I just recorded if I
realize that there were some places in
the video that I wanted to clip I could
just slide that bar and wherever I slide
the video
is going to be the section of the video
that is actually posted to flipgrid
once i'm ready i'm going to click
confirm if I realize I want to add more
video I could always click add more and
for this last part you and your students
are going to snap a quick selfie that
selfie is going to become the thumbnail
that is going to show up in this
particular assignment once you're ready
click on the camera and just like the
video the selfie is also fully
customizable with tilters tax stickers
drawings etc once you're ready click
Next and now you'll see that the
thumbnail showed up as the focus for the
media resource that I'm going to use to
engage students when you scroll down
you'll see there's a section where you
can add a topic tip so here I might
direct my students for example to
practice a few times before actually
recording their video you could add
additional attachments so the assignment
so here's where it would be relevant to
add some supplementary material could be
an article or a video that you want your
students to read or watch and when you
scroll down you'll see that you're able
to fully customize the setting the first
setting is for video moderation so if
you're concerned that students might be
posting videos that are not appropriate
or if you just want to make sure that
you're checking the videos before they
actually get posted to the grid then you
would want to turn on video moderation
you can turn on or off student to
student replies I typically keep this on
so that my students are able to respond
to each other be a video you can also
change the status of the topic if it's
active students will be able to access
it right away
frozen would be view only so that
students could view the videos but would
not be able to post new responses hidden
would be appropriate if you're wanting
to create an assignment but still work
on editing it and it's not quite ready
to be posted flipgrid has a built in
feedback system the basic feedback is
just giving them feedback on their ideas
and also their performance in the video
if you wanted to create your own custom
feedback rubric you could do that by
clicking on custom feedback add criteria
and there you could build your own
customized rubric for how you would be
great
their responses alright once you're
ready to launch the assignment you're
gonna click update topic and now let's
see how it would look on the student end
first you're going to need to share this
assignment with students and there are
several different ways you can do that
if you're looking to share it on Google
classroom hit the share button share to
Google classroom then select the class
that you want to share the assignment to
you'll be brought to Google classroom or
you can set up the assignment and assign
it to students and then students will be
able to log into their Google classrooms
select the assignment log in with their
email and you'll see that the student
was brought directly to the assignment
page where they can watch the video
introduction to the assignment that I
just created when they're ready to add
their own response they'll click on the
green plus button another good option
would be to copy the link to the
assignment and then embed it in a Google
slides hyper doc if you haven't watched
my other video about how to set up a
Google slides hyper doc for remote
learning I definitely recommend that you
check that out okay that should cover
the most important information you need
to know to set up remote learning
experiences with your students using
flipgrid
if you have any questions about how I
plan to use flipgrid for remote learning
please ask in the comments below thanks
so much for watching my video to the end
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