Flip+Camera

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 * Flip Camera enables us to capture, edit and share activities. This video was created by the software that the Flip Camera provides, a magical collage created from seven short clips that were downloaded from the camera website.**

Planning, short tripod, allow enough time to set up and redo; work towards kids developing their own questions; interviews engaging; helps to focus on learning goals, need teacher partner; use video for reflection and assessment, let kids see what they did, then refilm immediately, use as teaching tool in another class, be flexible, have kids work on script; dramatic potential - students need acting lessons using voice, bodies.
 * Tips for using flip camera in the classroom:**

Lessons can be adapted from The Creative Minds of 21st Century Learners - eBook from Syracuse University, available free,