Flip+cameras

[] Blog entry about using Flip cameras with students.

Some of my favorite ideas from this site: **Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement** [|Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement with a Flip Camera (download)]** > Ask students to edit video (in i.e. MovieMaker) in order to facilitate analysis of the information at a deep level.
 * The Flip Camera & the Classroom
 * Identifying Similarities and Differences**
 * Representing similarities and differences in graphic or symbolic form enhances students’ understanding of and ability to use knowledge.
 * Use video taken with your Flip camera to provide explicit guidance in identifying similarities and differences.
 * Use video taken with your Flip camera to ask students to independently identify similarities and differences.
 * Ask students to compare video images
 * Ask students to classify video images
 * Ask students to create and/or represent metaphors using video
 * Ask students to create and/or represent analogies using video
 * Summarizing and Note Taking**
 * Ask students to summarize a topic via video using your Flip camera.
 * Use your Flip camera to capture and then edit video that highlight the critical elements of a lesson or topic, i.e. classroom reporter.
 * Provide or allow students to use video as a study guide for tests.
 * Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition**
 * Abstract symbolic recognition is more effective than tangible rewards.
 * Use images/video taken with your Flip to communicate the importance of believing in effort, and ways students can learn to change their beliefs to an emphasis on effort.
 * Use images/video taken with your digital camera to recognize student effort, achievement, and mastery.
 * Create awards including video, i.e. student of the month.
 * Create slide shows, class books, focus walls, or websites including images/video from a Flip.


 * Homework and Practice**
 * Use images/video taken with your Flip camera to enhance or add meaning to homework assignments, or to help illustrate the purpose of homework.
 * Use a Flip to record key elements of a lesson for students to refer back to.
 * Ask students to take images with a Flip camera as part of a homework assignment.
 * Use images/video to provide feedback on homework.


 * Nonlinguistic Representations**
 * Use images/video taken with your Flip camera to increase the variety of nonlinguistic representations of knowledge in your classroom.
 * Create graphic representations
 * Create models
 * Generate mental pictures
 * Guide or inspire kinesthetic activity
 * Use images/video taken with your Flip camera to elaborate (or “add to”) student knowledge.
 * Or, ask students to elaborate on the images/video and to justify their elaborations.
 * Use images/video extracted from your Flip video to create time-sequence patterns.
 * Use images/video extracted from your Flip video to create process or cause-effect patterns.
 * Use images/video extracted from your Flip video to create episode patterns.
 * Use images extracted from your Flip video to create generalization/principle patterns.
 * Use images/video extracted from your Flip video to create concept patterns.


 * Cooperative Learning**
 * Use images/video to applaud group successes and efforts.
 * Use images/video to document individual and group accountability.
 * Use images/video to facilitate group reflection.


 * Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback**
 * Use images/video taken with your Flip camera to represent instructional goals.
 * Allow students to take video with your Flip camera in order to represent their personalized goals.
 * Use images/video to support “corrective” feedback. (The instant nature of digital - and means of sharing digital - can facilitate timely feedback.)
 * Allow students to use images/video to support their own feedback.


 * Generating and Testing Hypotheses**
 * Ask students to form hypotheses based on video taken with your Flip camera. Then ask students to clearly explain their hypotheses and conclusions.
 * Use images/video to support systems analysis, problem solving, and historical investigation.
 * Use images/video to prompt invention.
 * Allow students to use images/video to document or facilitate experimental inquiry and decision making.


 * Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers**
 * Use images/video taken with your Flip camera as cues and advance organizers.
 * Use images/video as visual support for higher-level questions, especially before a learning experience.
 * Use images/video to focus on what is important.
 * Using images/video may be most useful with information that is not organized.

This material has been adapted or quoted from… Marzano, R. J., Pickering, D. J., Pollock, J.E. (2001). //Classroom instruction that works: research-based strategies for increasing student achievement.// Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD): Alexandria, VA.
 * Reference:**

[] General recomendations for creating film > media type="custom" key="8655910"
 * Keep it steady
 * Pan slowly
 * Use digital zoom sparingly; physically moving is better
 * Use a tripod when available
 * Microphone is on the camera, stay close to main sound source
 * Be conscious of background noise
 * Keep sunlight at the shooter's back; avoid backlight
 * Use more than one artificial light source

**Ideas for using this with Flip for education from the Berkeley Group** > ]]
 * 1) Interviews of community members
 * 2) Daily commentary on news events
 * 3) Digital Story telling
 * 4) Tape kids who are a language class and have them subtitle the video in English
 * 5) Skits
 * 6) Creative Video Projects
 * 7) Uploading some videos to your school's website of kids telling of important school events coming up
 * 8) Have students tape their speeches
 * 9) Science Fair projects
 * 10) Distance collaboration
 * 11) History Reports
 * 12) Use text on paper and teaching 1st grade you can still write a story and not have to type
 * 13) Write on a clear plastic and film it
 * 14) Give the kids the camera and make the presentation
 * 15) Give the camera to kids to make 4th grade video tutorials with easy software to edit
 * 16) Use an LCD projector to tape a lab demo and then stop and show - and show it again and again
 * 17) Pre and post assessment for unit questions
 * 18) Behavior
 * 19) Professional development - share mini things from our classroom with other teachers
 * 20) Open house or back to school to document learning from beginning to end
 * 21) Global collaborative - partner classes - for earth day share with other students from around the world
 * 22) Promethean - two schools sharing and predicting what is on the beach in Oakland and Hawaii
 * 23) Students learn about poetry - make a video reciting the poem
 * 24) Reading strategies - visually represent these strategies for students
 * 25) Edutopia - all digital - what kids and teachers are doing in the classroom. [[@http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation|Digital Generation Project
 * 1) Create a base of short video - how to pick a just right book made by kids
 * 2) Social studies - ancient greece and city states - video the performance
 * 3) Book talks - with primary, bring in the favorite book
 * 4) Exceptional students can use this to demonstrate learning
 * 5) Using cameras in the IEP process
 * 6) Publishing book reviews
 * 7) Plant your garden - how things grow (build a stand)
 * 8) Use the camera that students can use in their electronic portfolio
 * 9) Sequencing - have the primary to do something and put events in order
 * 10) Filming peers - document and logs
 * 11) Miscue analysis
 * 12) Teacher education - guided reading
 * 13) Film classroom presentations so kids can view and critique - every single week - author's chair, and use as a teaching tool.
 * 14) Leave it out next to your computer - aren't you going to "Flip" something today?
 * 15) **Math:** record the steps of a math problem with explanations; find math in nature; find math in everyday items
 * 16) **ELA:** act out a scene from a book; narrate a story; record students reading poetry for a virtual poetry jam; oral communication – turn a persuasive essay into a commercial
 * 17) **Science:** demo/create ‘how-to’s for experiments; record labs/dissections/demonstrations
 * 18) **Social Studies:** conduct an interview of a famous person from history/person from another culture; conduct “man on the street” interviews based on history/cultures; re-create a famous speech; create a commercial – “why you should visit…”
 * 19) **Performing Arts:** demonstrate basics of an instrument/parts/hand positioning; create a warm-up video for others to follow along; record yourself and critique
 * 20) **PE:** demonstrate rules of a game; make a workout video
 * 21) **Health:** create a PSA for saying no to drugs, not smoking, how to avoid peer pressure, etc; lunchtime tour/interview kids about what they eat for lunch at school;
 * 22) **Electives: //computers//**: parts of a computer/demo ergonomic positioning; student aids: conduct a school tour; **//other electives//**: use one of the above ideas to tie your elective focus into other curricular areas.
 * Ideas for Use in Education
 * 1) ** Math in middle school. If students miss how to bisect an angle with a compas - maybe make a video of it - 30 seconds for review
 * 2) **Independent study - email the movie to an account too**
 * 3) **Reading - taking video shots**
 * 4) **Video reflection to self**
 * 5) **Collect clips over time - messages to self**
 * 6) **Back to school night - make quick videos of things - routinues around the classroom (talk less) e.g. supplies we need etc**
 * 7) **Poetry video - in groups - recite a poem with mood and tone - all differently**
 * 8) **Art - see the smartboard background as the picture and the students dress up as part of the artist life= video the students**
 * 9) **social studies - 60 second documentary**
 * 10) **class reponse to a topic - and collect the group response - another way to have a class video book**
 * 11) **Problem solution letter with a video you'd send to your representative**
 * 12) **Book talks - each students brings in their favorite book - they say why it is their favorite, character etc**
 * 13) **highlights of the year - use the camera for field trips - kids do it instead of 'me' doing it.**
 * 14) **How to's**
 * 15) **Social stories using the kids**
 * 16) **sequencing with younger kids - using the editing software and have them do this tactile way**
 * 17) **The teacher has the camera in the classroom, film the students all the time - it improved their oral presentation**
 * 18) **Class proceedures**
 * 19) **Discipline - document - caught being good**
 * 20) **Any kind of interview**
 * 21) **Review game - with the camera available in the classroom - interview a few kids.**
 * 22) **Record your lecture - key points**
 * 23) **Drama - monologues**
 * 24) **Solano County Office- project using Flip in the IEP process to share with parents**
 * 25) **Vocabulary -**
 * 1) **Solano County Office- project using Flip in the IEP process to share with parents**
 * 2) **Vocabulary -**

@http://www.pre-kpages.com/flip-video/ The possibilities for using the Flip Video in the classroom are really endless and you are only limited by your imagination, but here are a few ideas to inspire you:
 * How can I use a Flip Video camera in my classroom?**
 * Digital Storytelling (If you don’t know what that is click HERE)
 * Record students acting out a story such as The Three Little Pigs
 * School tours for new students
 * Recording daily activities in the classroom then showing the video to parents at open houses to demonstrate student learning.
 * Tape a model lesson to show to new teachers.
 * Record field trips so you can extend learning after the field trip is over.
 * Video student portfolios: Use the Flip to record evidence of student learning. Create a digital video portfolio for each student.
 * Behavior: If you have a behavioral problem videotape the behavior and review it with parents and administrators to discuss a course of action. Since the Flip is so small and easy to use you can just pull it out and start recording with the touch of one button- no set-up necessary.
 * Science experiments: Record science experiments to extend learning.
 * English Language Learners: Record students narrating a story, a personal narrative or fictional story like a fairy tale.

@http://tnttips.blogspot.com/2008/10/flip-video-cameras-in-classroom.html - Narrated field trips with students serving as guides - Interviewing other students, staff or community members - Digital storytelling projects - Capturing science as it happens - Demonstrating experiments - Students sharing "their world" - Taping presentations and reports

Administrators are also getting in the act. One of the coolest uses I've seen of the camera so far is from a principal in my district. She takes the Flip Video with her when she does her daily "walk throughs" (walking through the school to see what good things are happening). When she encounters noteworthy items, best practices, great student interaction, interesting uses of technology, etc., she whips out her Flip Video and captures the moment. She then shares that with her staff during faculty meetings and during their morning broadcast.

Taking a note from that administrator, I did my own walk through in one of our schools that is really beginning to excel in the use of technology. I was looking for teachers using technology. If I saw something good happening when I peeked in the door I went in the room and recorded a few seconds of video. That video was posted on the school's intranet under "Look Who Was Caught Using Technology Today". Corny-I know- but so far it's peeking interest.