Flipgrid, the worldwide phenomenon and globally beloved edtech tool, has an extra-awesome feature that is becoming more and more popular for obvious reasons. It’s AR technology (that’s augmented reality), so it automatically has a mega-cool factor! In Flipgrid, any or all of the videos that are created can be printed as QR codes and scanned with the Flipgrid app. That’s when the magic happens.
The video appears – not a link to be clicked, but the actual video – and it appears to hover just above the surface of wherever the QR code is attached. You can literally pass your hand behind the video as it continues to play. THAT is #FlipgridAR!
When I show this technology to folks, I ask them to consider “the where & the why”. Not all Flipgrid videos need to be printed and placed somewhere as an interactive QR code. If the topic was an exit ticket for a lesson or a “How was your weekend?” kind of prompt, then it’s okay for those videos to just live in Flipgrid and be part of that classroom/community space on the web.
So that got me thinking about how “the where” really matters when using #FlipgridAR, and this project was born!
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