What is Flipgrid? According to Flipgrid they state “Flipgrid is simple. Engage and empower every voice in your classroom or community by recording and sharing short, awesome videos … together!” I just believe they are just awesome!

In short, you as a teacher create a grid which is a meeting place and then the students go into that space and create a short video to answer that questions. Flipgrid has a great educator’s guide that you can get here. Your students can create videos from their laptop and upload to the topic. The workflow for you goes: Grid>Topic>Review Student Work and Grade. The workflow for students goes Upload Video and that’s it. Depending on how you set it up you can have students respond to each other. You can have your students set up through Microsoft, since they struck a deal with them last year, which also helps Flipgrid be free! Also, with the Microsoft integration Flipgrid has immersive reader built into it!!!!!! This is a tool is for all students, neigh, it’s for all people to interact with each other and with you.

So, you’re like, this sounds like a great tool but how does it fit into my classrooms? How would I use it? Glad you asked, check out this small list people of ideas I came up with in just 30 seconds:

• Quick checks
• Discussion Boards
• Math Explanation Video
• Book talks/Book Trailers
• Exit Tickets
• Fluency Practice
• Global Connections

Last week I spent some time on this great tool called Wakelet, I didn’t mention that Flipgrid is embeddable (I so thought I was creating a word but alas, spellcheck beat me to it) into a Wakelet!

With our Learning Management System, you can embed Flipgrid into it. As a Unified Classroom User, I would follow these steps:

1. Access your educator account at admin.flipgrid.com to visit your main My Grids page.
2. Select the Share option (if on mobile, select Actions and then Share). You can do this for an entire Grid, a specific Topic, or a single student Response.
3. In the Share with Learning Community section, you will see the blue embed option. Click that to copy the HTML embed code.
4. Log into Unified Classroom
5. Select the Class Page you want to add Flipgrid to
6. Select Add Content
7. Select Embed the Web
8. Paste Embed Code and select next
9. Finish filling in the information you would like.
10. Select Save!

That’s it, if looks like a lot of steps, only because I spread out each step, and once you do it a couple of times then you’ll get it.

To show you how easy it is to use, I have embedded it into the blog and I encourage you to share with me one way you think you might use this tool in your classroom by clicking on the green plus sign!