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Flip video… first impressions
July 4th, 2008 by misterel
Flip video arrived at school today…First impression, what a great box and great packaging. Maggie in accounts (who had ordered it for me) was as excited as I was. Got the white one (as you can see in pictures). Took it out, put the batteries in and recorded some kids playing outside the window. It was that easy. No manual needed to be read, no fiddling looking for the right button to press. Easy and simple to use.
I have now taken it home, given it to the kids. My youngest (age 10) figured it out in seconds and is rather gutted her birthday isn’t til next April. I have tried to persuade them to write their own review…so far no luck.
Below is a clip of my chickens. (have had to use blip.tv as this seems to be the only way I can embed fileand it was filmed at 9.20pm). It was a tad windy and that is noticeable on the vid. However, this is so easy to use, easy to download content, either by using the in built software or just accessing your videos via the folders.
So far I am extremely impressed. Will be trialling it with the kids at school and will definately be using it for the DiDA coursework.
There are a lot of other reviews of the flip video out in blog world. A good one is here. It is the second review that Mark has done, this time using his class. He is getting great results and is my inspiration for it working at my school.
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on July 4th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Thanks for your kind words… not sure that I’m “inspirational”, but I look forward to seeing how you use it in school.
btw - your chicken did exactly the same as my rat did when I started filming with the Flip… it ran away!
on July 5th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Had to edit the video as well, because not only did it run away, it disappeared into the gloom beneath its house. Will be trying again when the weather gets better.