43+Ways+to+Use+a+Flip+in+Your+Classroom

Ways to use a Flip in your classroom
Or any digital video camera......

1. Demonstrate Skill Sets 2. Record Science Experiments 3. Take one to the museum to capture the trip so that you can come back and refer to the exhibit and students can have the visual to remind them of which exhibit you are talking about. 4. Film PE class for student self-evaluation. 5. Film a school tour in another language. 6. Interview students during recess/lunch about any topic. Compile the video and use it to inspire teachers. 7. Record you lessons and discussions around certain topics, and post hem to your blog or keep a set of videos for students to be able to refer to. 8. Explore the outdoors during the seasons and have the students use the footage to discuss similarities and differences between the seasons. 9. Use it to capture student’s opinions on their classroom and daily activities and then share it at Parent’s Night. 10. Use it with students learning sign language to allow them to take video demos home to teach themselves and parents/siblings. 11. Use in your building to video those awesome colleagues to build awesome pd opportunities around how they instruct in their classroom. Critique each other’s styles. 12. Use it as a transition tool for students moving to a new school. Have 7th grade students go through the school noting what they have learned in their first year at the MS. Or 9th grade of course. And by all means for new K students. 13. Challenge a class to make a video representation of a poem. 14. Have your students create a commercial after reading a book to encourage others to read it. 15. Record introductions to be shared with other classes when live video is not an option due to time zones, etc. 16. Have the students make a promo video for activities at the school. 17. Use a “reaction-cam” to capture student’s reactions as they take part in a role-playing game. 18. Use it to engage students to share their video results with the class. Most kids, even those that previously have given up are eager to create a video to share. 19. Make a video alphabet to share with the class. Capture phonics, usage, etc. Have the students create good sized brightly colored examples of each letter to display. Put it on your site and display it on your interactive whiteboard. 20. Take it to a conference and record your experiences. Then share on your blog or just share with your colleagues. 21. Video Modeling of social language or of just about anything that can be conveyed. 22. Put it in your window on a day with some weather and record the outside and then watch and observe the changes and see what happens. Make sure to mute the audio if you do this in your classroom. 23. Digital Chicken Soup 24. Video Rehearsals of a play or performance. Use the video as a trailer for an upcoming event on your website to get parents and others more excited about it. 25. Create rules of thumb when you first start….Allow them to make a short video on a how-to something and then critique it as a class, showing how not to record things….Framing correctly, making sure you have enough light, etc. 26. Have students record math tips and tricks. 27. Video your classroom and have children critique their own behavior. 28. Use to video mock job interviews so that students can critique themselves. 29. Video your own lesson and use it for self-reflection or reflection with a colleague. 30. Use video in a physics lab to enhance a student’s explanation of movement. 31. Use to record student debates and then watch to allow for further discussion. Use for student self-review of speeches/presentations given. 32. Have the students create a “Welcome to Our School” video to share with community newcomers or visitors to the school. 33. PTs and OTs can use video to demonstrate skills for home-use. 34. Create a Classroom Training Video. 35. Capture a science experiment as it happens. 36. Principal/Staff capture noteworthy items, best practices, good student interaction, interesting uses of tech, etc….and shares them at a daily/weekly staff meeting. 37. Create Public Service Announcements….Take a 5th grade group and create a video about cyberbullying as a precursor to an online safety talk. Have your high school group create one about bullying at school and then present it to MS and ES students. Let them come up with the script, locations, etc. Use it to create a lab safety commercial…. 38. Create a Playground safety/rules video. Or a hand-washing video. Or a bus safety video, you know what to do if….. 39. Create a video of a fire drill to show to students who have anxiety around it what to expect and what to do. 40. Use to create how-tos for fellow staff. Topics can range from the proper way to conduct PBS techniques to how to clean the lens on the projector to hooking up your laptop to the overhead projector/whiteboard. 41. Record your assemblies when someone receives a reward and use the video to share with parents on your site. 42. Use it to record a thank you to send to someone who has recently done something for your school (School Board, PTO, local business, etc.) 43. Take videos of clouds to use in a weather discussion.