One of my favorite new tech tools of this school year is a site and app called Flipgrid. I first heard about Flipgrid at EdCamp Twin Cites in October of 2016. Our EdCamp was held at Flipgrid's headquarters in downtown Minneapolis. It was a really neat building and flexible workspace. (It just shows how we can use a flexible space model in our classrooms to emulate "real life" workspaces.)
What is Flipgrid, you may ask? Your grid is like a homepage, and in that page, you can add topics where people can respond to a prompt with a video! It's great for amplifying student voice - giving even quiet students a chance to have their voices heard.
Anyhow, Flipgrid teamed up last year with a scientist in Antarctica to share the things that she was doing as she studied different things down in the southern continent. This year, they teamed up with Mike at the Minnesota Raptor Center to help us learn more about different raptors as well as to share ideas about birds in our neighborhood and how we can help conserve our natural resources.
We had a chance to get a shout out from Mike - they shared a video of getting a weight on a barred owl, and Mike said that the owl weighed "785," but he didn't give a unit of measurement. So, we made a quick video asking what he meant by that number, and he made us a video response! Check out the videos below.
We spent the first two weeks of May connecting with the Minnesota Raptor Center, and having fun giving our feedback on Flipgrid!
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