Independent reading books adorned each desk. A child’s interests and/or personality displayed through the book he/she chose for reading that week. Alongside the books are notes and paper to write a ...

The applications of Flipgrid are quite endless in terms of using it for reflections or essay journals or assignments, reading assignments, icebreaker activities, interviews, case-based scenarios; the ...

A video-discussion platform originally started by a University of Minnesota professor to keep in touch with students for a course he was teaching has been purchased by tech giant Microsoft. The tool, ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Flipgrid, the video platform for empowering student voice in pre-K to Ph.D. classrooms, today announced 800 percent year-over-year (YoY) growth in new teacher accounts ...

Microsoft has acquired education technology startup Flipgrid, Inc., and immediately announced that the subscription social learning platform will be free to all educators. Flipgrid, based in Minnesota ...

Education these days isn't just about reading, writing and arithmetic -- it's also about learning how to learn. And Microsoft wants to be the go-to option for teaching these abilities. It's buying ...

Dr. Rai Farrelly, senior instructor and director of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages programs in the Department of Linguistics, intentionally created community in her Maymester courses ...

Flipgrid, owned by Microsoft, is a freely accessible video chat platform that, according to the Microsoft Center for Teachers, helps teachers see and hear every student in the classroom while ...

Flipgrid, the student-focused video app similar to Snapchat, is today introducing a new version that offers the core social learning functionality of the original Flipgrid, but at no cost. Flipgrid ...

In an increasingly connected, global society, it’s not surprising that now, more than ever, teachers and students are looking for opportunities to interact with each other and content experts around ...