Flipgrid - Reflection on @EdCampMadWI

I attended an Ed Camp today in Madison, Wisconsin and had the opportunity to go to four awesome sessions. One session focused on Flipgrid.

I've been hearing about Flipgrid (@Flipgrid) for a while now, but I hadn't quite caught #FlipgridFever. I just wasn't sure how the platform worked, so I was grateful for the opportunity to learn firsthand at EdCamp in a session proposed and facilitated by Katie Copley (@mrs_copley_pvms).

Instead of writing here about how Flipgrid works, I'm going to use this space to create a list of ways that I am considering using Flipgrid in my classroom. Feel free to use and adapt!

• Record answers to questions that the judges might ask during our National History Day Contest
• Ask each other questions about their NHD projects
• Critique each other's NHD projects
• Side Quest Challenges (for gamification purposes)
• Post trivia questions or riddles and students could gain XP for answering them correctly
• Summarize a concept we are discussing in class
• Summarize a reading
• Explain a current event that they heard about this week
• Get to know each other at the beginning of a new class
• Reflect on a finished project/assessment
• Reflect on process
• Reflect on progress
• Teach each other how to use a tool or skill
• How to format their annotated bibliography
• How to cite a source
• How they determined meaning in a text
• Ask questions about assignments
• Debates/discussions on controversial topics
• Interpretation of a primary source
• Describe a modern analogy of a historical concept/event
• Historical "interviews"
• Job interviews (Homeroom Academic and Career Planning)
• Practice for Student Led Conferences