Week 4 Technology - Something I can use!!

 

I thought I would start my third blog with an app for students and educators that might be on the user friendly side.  Yet another rabbit hole with this one!  Easy to use?  Yes!  Fun while creating?  Yes!!

Flipgrid is my new favorite out there!  Yes I enjoyed learning on Wonderopolis.org, but now I have a platform where I could interact with the students and see how they are enjoying different websites or how their research is going on assignments through Flipgrid.  I can post a question and get responses.  I can ask for feedback and get answers  I can interact with students even when they are not physically in the library.  I could ask what they want more of in the library, interactive hands on or specific books to read for entertainment or even help with a classroom assignment.  Plus the ability to record videos gives that extra layer of almost being face-to-face with the student to read body language or other minor things that you would not have the opportunity to see without a video of the student.

Some students may like this while others may not.  The student can record a long or short video and the other students have the opportunity to view it or not.  It engages their creativity while getting them to interact even when not physically in the classroom or library.  There are different effects and editing tools they can use in the app to make their video as creative as they are.

Flipgrid is available in 180 different countries and it allows the teacher to create assignments, provide feedback and track the progress of each student invited to create in this class.  It seems very user friendly, especially if I found myself liking it and playing around with it, because even though this is week 4 in this technology adventure, I still consider myself very new at all this advanced technology that has come my way in the last few years, especially since virtual learning became a thing in 2020 more so than ever before!

So although I like to get back to nature and I actually climbed a mountain last week, I am still challenging myself technologically and trying new things.  I see myself in the future creating a virtual scavenger hunt in my library (when I get there) and having students create videos on Flipgrid sending me the answers to the questions and finding items in the library and being very creative with their videos to me and the class.  This is definitely on my future use list!!

Baker Mountain, Adirondacks New York

Umi, just because she is cute!