Screencasts, Instagram, and Flipagram

Screencasts, Instagram, and Flipagram

Get Out and Be Sociable!

Let’s face it, kids are more technologically advanced than ever.  We as educators, understand the use of technology in the classroom as a great tool to enhance the learning experience.  With the many social media outlets drawing our students, I thought it would be cool to highlight three popular applications-Instagram, Flipagram and Screencasts.

Instagram is a free social media app that allows you to share photos and videos through Facebook, Twitter and even Tumblr with family and friends.  Instagram is a wonderful way to stay in touch with people, places and things both professionally and personally.  I could use Instagram in the classroom to document student work, capture moments, find ideas for presentations, record student experimental processes and promote events in and around the community, to include schools.

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Flipagram is a tool used to create and share presentations through video slide shows.  Flipagram was my least favorite of the three.  I had issue uploading music and manipulating the text.  A tutorial would have been nice to navigate you through how to use.  If I had to use it in the classroom, it could be used to tell stories, record class presentations and document/display student work/progress.

Screencast is an online recording platform used to create, manage, and share videos.  In the classroom it can be used to capture lessons, make announcements and even make assignments for students.

Overall, my favorite app for the classroom is Screencast.  I think it has the most educational valuable.  It can be used in a variety of ways.  I can easily see utilizing it for lesson starters, presentations, demonstrations and displaying student work.  All the apps were free and easy to access.  With so many options including these three, we as educator have no excuse not to be creative in reaching our students and giving them the best experience possible.