Using Flipgrid to Promote Collaboration and Feedback in the Iterative Design Process and to Host a Remote Maker Faire

Virtually Maker Faire 2020

May 22nd-23rd

Soliciting and incorporating constructive criticism is a necessary element in the design process if makers are to make effective revisions to their prototypes. However, collaboration and feedback are more difficult in a remote learning environment. Using FlipGrid, students and teachers can record their projects, explain challenges, and request ideas to change. Other students and teachers can view these recordings asynchronously and record a response with feedback. This is a great method even during in-person schooling. Flipgrid is also a great option for hosting a remote maker faire: students can present their final projects, perhaps incorporating clips from earlier in the design process, and the school community can view and respond to presentations. This is more interactive than just uploading videos without the ability to respond, and less time-consuming than live presentations.
In this workshop, participants will learn how to use Flipgrid and will brainstorm ideas for incorporating this tool into remote maker education as well as a traditional school. Participants might want to have a project handy to record, though this is not mandatory.