Many teachers, both K-12 and higher Ed, are using flip video cameras in the classroom to enhance the teaching and learning process. Used for more than just recording events and activities students are engaged in, flip video camcorders are being used for student directed video productions to demonstrate concepts learned, document experiments, interview "experts" and create presentations for culminating projects, just to name a few. Video use in education also serves multiple intelligences. For example, students who are visual learners benefit and often excel greatly when creating video and watching video created by other students and their teachers. Students with significant social skill/communication disabilities such as Autism have benefited from the use of video to express themselves (Charlan 2010). Student use of digital video for capturing, editing, and producing promotes digital literacy and critical thinking skills. In producing video, students are learning valuable skills about the production and distribution of media. These are skills they will need growing up in this media rich 21st century.
See the Google Docs presentation (Barrett 2009) below for some great K-12 applications of flip video in the classroom
Forty-Four Interesting Ways to use your Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom
View the videos below for an idea of how flip cameras are being used in Higher Education (Duke University 2008)
See the Google Docs presentation (Barrett 2009) below for some great K-12 applications of flip video in the classroom
Forty-Four Interesting Ways to use your Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom
View the videos below for an idea of how flip cameras are being used in Higher Education (Duke University 2008)
