Ideas for the Classroom
Below are links to websites that provide ideas of how to use camcorders or flips as educational tools in the classroom.
Digital Video In Education
This website contains information on how educators can use video to enhance curriculum, ideas of how video can be used in the classroom, and some basic information on camcorders.
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Educational Activities With a Flip Video Camcorder
This article explains how using video can aid in Geometry learning as well as creating virtual tours for history class.
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Tech Tools- Flip Camcorders
This website supplies ideas of how Flip Camcorders can be used in the classroom. It also gives suggestions about how you can keep track and maintain a classroom set of Flips.
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10 Educational Uses for Flip Video
This is a great article explaining how to find time to incorporate digital video into curriculum. The ten different ways are outstanding, unique and inventive. There are ideas that any teacher can use.
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The Educational Uses for Digital Storytelling
This website share many resources. It shares examples, resources, software, how to create, and how to evaluate. It has examples for every subject that are captivating and interesting.
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Integrating Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
This website gives lesson examples and tutorials on the several different softwares that can be used to create a digital story. It also provides resources, storyboarding, and rubrics to use for digital storytelling projects.
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E2BN Clips
"E2BN Clips is a safe video and animation publishing for schools! E2BN Clips is a very powerful learning tool that has great potential for involving young people in schools in a variety of curriculum areas; it helps to bring learning alive."
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The Big Draw
This website is a great tool for students to learn how to create storyboards and illustrate. It also talks about characters and backgrounds. It breaks it down into simple step-by-step directions.
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The Poem, The Reader, and the Camera
Using camcorders as noteboooks for the Study of Poetry
This is an extensive, research-based article that suggests having students represent thoughts and images of poetry through moving image can heighten their understanding of the literature they are reading.
Six Activities with Camcorders
This article lists six different activities that students can do to with camcorders to enhance learning. The article contains detailed descriptions of each project as well as a video example of each.
iMovies in Education
This article lists a number of ways that teachers can effectively incorporate camcorders into their instruction. The article is full of video examples to go along with each activity's description.
