Flip Cameras in the Field: Faculty using Flips

Here's an ongoing list of faculty using Flip cameras in university settings.

Bill Wolff's Composing Spaces: 6 recommendations for teaching with the flip video camera

Communications Professor Michael Scully, Roger Williams University. Digital Journalism
Students are required to purchase a flip camera as part of the course materials. The purpose is to get students in the cycle of crafting and producing stories and publishing in an electronic forum.

Kevin Caves, Instructor in Biomedical Engineering, Duke University Student Video Fellowship: Biomedical Engineering capstone video project. Students used Flip video cameras provided by the Duke Digital Initiative to record interviews with disabled clients, in which the clients explain what they can do on their own, and later, what they can do with assistive prototypes.

Students could use these videos as a memory aid, as they were designing devices. The videos also helped instructors, who can’t always attend each meeting with the clients, to review what happened during a visit. In addition, students used video to demonstrate their designed devices as a final presentation.

Flip camera bibliography

I thought it would be helpful to collect and keep track of research, endeavors, and other active learning activities with Flip cameras. I'll add to this time from time and please feel free to send me what you find too.

7 things you should know about Flip Camcorders from EDUCAUSE

How Tiny Camcorders are Changing Education by Laurie Rowell

Stop flipping out: quick tutorials for Flip video cameras
Duke University Center for Instructional Technology

Flip cameras

I wanted to try something new this summer with the freshman English 101 class. Instead of the old tired library tour, why not let the students film themselves as they learn how to navigate the library catalog and the stacks to find a book? Summer is a good time to try out new ideas. This one worked! Amanda Melcher another library faculty member and two students Hunter Tinsley, and Michael Messina helped me pull it off.