Professional Development Resources for Educators
Below are resources that educators can use to educate themselves on flip camcorders/camcorders.
Using Flip Camcorders to boost teaching/learning in your class.
This article gives shows educators how to operate a Flip camcorder, services for video production, and examples of practice and assessment. Click on the picture to the left read the article.
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6 Recommendations for Teaching Flip Camcorders
This blog provides educators with six recommendations of how to use the Flip camcorder with your students. It has great ideas on how to get your students started, knowledgable, and comfortable using the Flip. It also provides educators with numerous different resources for music, file conversion, and free video software. It show how effective and cost efficient a video project can be for students.
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Flip Presentations
This article has resources on information storing, data recording, and taping lectures.
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Digital Storytelling-turn your photos into movies for education, internet marketing, your family, and your work.
This website provides a vast amount of resources to help educate people on how to make digital stories. It also covers many free resources that are available to use to create wonderful, artist, and creative movies.
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Digital Storytelling:My Top 10 Lessons Learned
This post on the ISTE website gives great insight into the things teachers need to incorporate into their digital storytelling lesson plan. It also provides great advice for teachers doing this lesson for the first time. It also contains excellent students examples.
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Digital Storytelling Brings Education to Life
The post on the ISTE website provides two videos with educators talking about techniques for digital storytelling in the classroom.
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7 Things You Should Know About Flip Camcorders
This article contains a lot of straight-forward information about what exactly a flip camcorder is and what it is capable of doing. It lists the advantages of using them over conventional camcorders and also brings some of their shortcomings into view. The article is concluded with a short summary of the implications for teaching and learning brought on by flip camcorders.
Using Digital Video In Teaching and Learning
This article is very informative on why digital video should be used in the classroom and it provides extensive information on the approaches the teacher should take to implenting it into the classroom. The article contains a lot of useful information about what equipment is necessary to be successful as well as how to go about obtaining it. Detailed lists about how to plan projects, assign projects, and oversee production of projects are also contained in this article.
Digital Video and Teaching
This article thoroughly describes the affordances of using camcorders in the classroom. The most valuable aspect of this article is the insight it provides into how camcorders can be used in almost every school subject. Almost all of the activties listed require a high level of students engagement.
