Welcome to the Richland Parish
Technology Department

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. Digital Generation Project 
    
26. Create a base of short video - how to pick a just right book made by kids
27. Social studies - ancient greece and city states - video the performance
28. Book talks - with primary, bring in the favorite book
29. Exceptional students can use this to demonstrate learning
30. Using cameras in the IEP process
31. Publishing book reviews 
    
32. Plant your garden - how things grow (build a stand)
    
33. Use the camera that students can use in their electronic portfolio
34. Sequencing - have the primary to do something and put events in order
35. Filming peers - document and logs
36. Miscue analysis
37. Teacher education - guided reading
38. Film classroom presentations so kids can view and critique - every single week - author's chair, and use as a teaching tool. 
    
39. Leave it out next to your computer - aren't you going to "Flip" something today?
40. Math: record the steps of a math problem with explanations; find math in nature; find math in everyday items
41. 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
42. Science: demo/create ‘how-to’s for experiments; record labs/dissections/demonstrations
43. 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…”
44. Performing Arts: demonstrate basics of an instrument/parts/hand positioning; create a warm-up video for others to follow along; record yourself and critique
45. PE: demonstrate rules of a game; make a workout video
46. 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;
47. 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.
    

I purchased a Flip several months ago and love using it for short, quick videos of my grandchildren, and classroom clips. I also have an iPod Touch and was able to move the movies from Flip to my iPod Touch so I can carry them with me at all times. It's like having a video library of photos in my purse. Now I can really put everyone asleep showing pictures of my grandchildren. In order to get them to my Touch, I moved the videos (already downsized for emailing purposes) to the Movie section of my iTunes and then used the Advanced feature of iTunes and converted them to load onto my iPod. I had two copies of the movie in my iTunes but when I selected the one to move to my iPod (in the Sync manager), I would always put a check mark next to the second one and it would Sync perfectly. 

Also...another feature I love about the Flip is the ability to "snap" a picture from the video clips. I can look at my video clip, a frame at a time, and when I come to a frame I really like, I can extract that frame out of the video to my desktop as a .jpg photo. That's awesome for someone who is really trying to capture a great still picture. 

Hope these comments help you enjoy your Flip even more.