Background
I used the flips cameras with my P2/3 class across a variety of curricular areas to aid peer and self assessment.

Impact on Teaching and Learning
Literacy
The children used the cameras to record each other doing a paired fluency read on the second day of their reading programme. I then played the recordings back on the smartboard and used them to model and discuss how to improve reading and give feedback to their partner concentrating on pace, expression etc. This helped the children have a clearer idea when giving feedback to their partner.

Interdiscplinary Learning
The whole school had been learning about The Far East as an interdisciplinary project. As part of the assessment of this I asked the children to show their understanding by fliming each other talking about what they had learned. This was a good way of assessing the knowledge of the less able children who often struggle with written tasks. Some of these video clips were then used to make a cross school DVD which was shown to children and parents.

PE
The children filmed each other’s gymnastics sequences and then self assessed using the success criteia. They then tried to improve their performance based on their self assessment. The children really enjoyed this and found it was benefical. Quite often they had thought they were bending their knees to land etc. but when they watched it back realised that they weren’t.

Impact/Conclusion
I found the flips really beneficial across the curriculum. I did have some problems, however, playing back the video on some of the computers.