Many of you have probably heard of the iPhone app called "Vine." Here's a little description of Vine from their website: "Vine is the best way to see and share life in motion. Create short, beautiful, looping videos in a simple and fun way for your friends and family to see."
With Vine, you create 6 second videos that loop over and over until you make it stop:) I got the idea of using Vine with Vocabulary from Twitter (surprise, surprise.) A word of caution: Vine is frequently used as a social media site, for silly, fun videos and comments that could be inappropriate for children. When I suggested that my teachers try Vine with Vocabulary, I told them to only let the students use Vine with the teacher's iPad and monitor them closely (i.e. only let them create Vines, don't let them browse the gallery.)
Once the students' vines are created under the teacher's account, the teacher can go to Vine's website and embed their vines into their own teacher websites or wikis for student viewing and sharing.
Using Vines for Vocabulary is a great way for students to demonstrate their mastery of a word through words and visual representation. Also, when students view other vocabulary vines, they get another person's examples, explanations... and on top of that they get the repetition of that 6 second video looping over and over again.
Amber Evans and Marley Goodwin had their 3rd grade students make Vocabulary Vines when they were learning about geometry. Check Amber's out here and find Marley's vines here. Way to go 3rd grade!
Angela Stallbaumer, Sarah Feeney and their 2nd graders created Vines to show their understanding of suffixes. Check them out here. Way to go 2nd grade!
There are many, many ways that Vines could be used in education. One of the greatest things about it is the time limit on the videos. If you need a quick activity and you want your students to publish something, but you don't have time to spend days on a project, Vine is great option!! I sometimes create vines just to "show off" what students are doing. Here's an example:
Hope you enjoy using Vine!! If you have any questions about it, or would like some support using it in your classroom, please let me know:)
**Please note: The Vine app is NOT downloaded onto the school iPads because of the reasons mentioned above. We don't want our students visiting the gallery and viewing public videos and comments. You can, however, download Vine onto your teacher iPad or your phone - doing it this way allows you to monitor more closely:)
