Flip Basics 💻📱🖥

Are you new to Flip? Get Started Here.

Here are the basics: When you set up your account, you’ll first create a Topic for your learning community. Topics are discussion prompts that your students respond to with short videos. Students then Record a Response and post their video or view and Add a Comment to one another’s Responses.

Groups are a great way for educators to organize multiple Topics and share them with a community of learners. Invite your students to respond to an individual Topic or to access your Group of Topics by sharing the Join Code or Link.

Flip is available on the web and via our iOS and Android apps. 

Flip in The Arts 🎨 🎶 🎭

Fine Arts play a vital role in students’ academic, personal, and social development. Flip helps to vividly showcase students’ visual and auditory experiences within arts education. Moreover, Flip allows all students a platform to share (and receive feedback on) their visual art, media art, dance, music, or theatrical work to an audience. Here’s just a few ways that Flip can ignite engagement and capture your students’ learning process and talents within the arts:

⭐️ Perform and describe movements and music that express ideas and feelings
⭐️ Explain and show how music, art, and dance differs within genres or cultures
⭐️ Showcase a final product or video production using multiple tools
⭐️ Collaborate to practice and refine techniques and skills
⭐️ Create, perform, and respond to music
⭐️ Rehearse, evaluate, and refine to prepare for a concert or production

Once you’re ready to create your first discussion Topic, you can dive right in from your Educator Admin or head to the Discovery Library for inspiration. Here is a sampling of Fine Arts Topics currently available in the Disco Library, all created by your peers and ready to be used with your learners!

🚀 Discovery Library: Visual & Media Arts

Let’s Talk about Art History by Maria Alejandra: A Topic encouraging students to choose a period of time in Art History to research and share facts, as well as their feelings and connections.

Virtual Art Show by Carrie Johnson: A Topic that remixes the traditional art show to share and celebrate student creativity.

6 Elements of Portraiture by Amy Chandler: A Topic for students to share their understanding of the key elements of portraiture.

Thaumatropes & Phenakisticope by Craig Stein: A Topic for students to explore the history and impact of animation as they create a thaumatrope.

On-Camera Tips and Techniques by L. Holmgran: A Topic for students to share tips for creating recorded media while also reflecting on their presence in front of the camera.

🚀 Discovery Library: Music

Music and My Feelings by Donnie Schies: A Topic that explores tone, feeling, and the message within music while inspiring students to create their own jams to convey messages.

Dress Rehearsal by Teresa Ducassoux: A Topic for students to practice and critique their own musical performances.

Families of the Orchestra by Becky Jontos: A Topic that encourages collaboration as students learn about a family of instruments within the orchestra and share their learning with fellow classmates.

🚀 Discovery Library: Theatre

Hot Spot by Amy DeFriese: A Topic using the art of improv to help students warm up and become comfortable sharing ideas creatively.

Theatre Auditions by Amy DeFriese: A Topic for students to audition for theatrical school productions.

Theatre Final Trailers by Kendra Parker: A Topic for students to create and upload video trailers for a theatre performance.

Consider this: ISTE Standards for Students 💡

Empowered Learner 1 - Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences. 1C: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Creative Communicator 6 - Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals. 6A: Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.

Want even more!? 🤓

💥 Join Education Innovation Leads Jornea Armant, Jess Boyce, Fely García López, and Ann Kozma for a LIVE Professional Development session.

💥 Join the #FlipgridForAll and #FlipForAll educator community on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to learn from colleagues and peers around the world!

💥 Become a Level One Flip Certified Educator.

There is no limit to the ways you can use Flip with learners in the Arts. Dive in and help your students define and share their voice and respect the diverse voices of their peers. We are here to support you!