Flip+Video+Camera

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After you take your video… You can use the cables in the flip video box (yellow,red,white) to plug the camera directly into your TV. Just select the AV input on your TV and you can play the videos directly to the TV. (You won't see them on the Flip screen, though, while you're connected to the TV.======

4. The Flip software will go through a brief install and then open with your movie(s) visible in the main window.

 * IF YOU PLAN TO USE THE FLIP VIDEO SOFTWARE AND DON’T NEED TO DO EDITING:**

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3. If you want to put it on your **__district website__** **__AS IS__** – then go to Share / Online / Select site / Other/Next /Other website/ Then rename it and hit “GO. When it’s ready, a window will appear and you can hit GO again. Your video will be in a folder on your desktop. Now you can attach it just like you attach other FILES to your website. (It will be a Quicktime movie)======

OR (If you are on a Mac) Import the video into iPhoto (which usually opens when you attach the camera). Then drag the clips you want to the desktop. You can then follow step 3 above and add them to your webpage.


 * IF YOU PLAN TO USE THE NEW IMOVIE (LOOKS LIKE A STAR)**

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4.Navigate to the Flipshare Camera / DCIM / 100 Video/ You should see your videos in the window that opens. Highlight the clips you’d like to import and import them. They will appear in the “New Event” section of imovie. You can select them from here and drag them into the clips pane of your new movie.======


 * IF YOU PLAN TO USE IMOVIE HD**

2. Go to the DCIM/ 100VIDEO folder. You will find your movies inside this folder. Drag the actual movie files (titled VID00001.MP4 or something like that) into the clips pane of iMovie.
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Suggestions for using your Flip Video Camera in the Classroom:

 * **42 Interesting Ways to Use Your Pocket Video in the Classroom**
 * **[|Movie project ideas from Apple]**
 * ****Advantages to using a Video Camera in the Classroom****
 * **[|Kids Vid]**- teaching students about creating video for the classroom.
 * Narrated field trips with students serving as guides -
 * Interviewing other students, staff or community members -
 * Digital storytelling projects - Capturing science as it happens -
 * Demonstrating experiments -
 * Students sharing "their world" -
 * Taping presentations and reports Administrators are also getting in the act.
 * One principal takes the Flip Video with her when she does her daily "walk throughs" (walking through the school to see what good things are happening). When she encounters noteworthy items, best practices, great student interaction, interesting uses of technology, etc., she whips out her Flip Video and captures the moment. She then shares that with her staff during faculty meetings and during their morning broadcast.
 * Students can create booktalks that are uploaded to the district website
 * Students can use cameras to record data in science projects, experiments, or long-term monitoring of an outdoor location
 * Flip cameras can be used by students to make commercials or advertisements, to record responses to books, projects, lessons, and units
 * "Sister" schools of different socioeconomic backgrounds can record video and upload to the web to share experiences or collaborate on a project
 * Digital Storytelling
 * Record students acting out a story such as The Three Little Pigs
 * School tours for new students
 * Recording daily activities in the classroom then showing the video to parents at open houses to demonstrate student learning.
 * Tape a model lesson to show to new teachers.
 * Record field trips so you can extend learning after the field trip is over.
 * Video student portfolios: Use the Flip to record evidence of student learning. Create a digital video portfolio for each student.
 * Behavior: If you have a behavioral problem videotape the behavior and review it with parents and administrators to discuss a course of action. Since the Flip is so small and easy to use you can just pull it out and start recording with the touch of one button- no set-up necessary.
 * Science experiments: Record science experiments to extend learning.
 * English Language Learners: Record students narrating a story, a personal narrative or fictional story like a fairy tale.