1.Scaffold the experience and start on paper.
When I started my kindergarten students on Flip this year, we started with paper. Now I understand that this may sound counterintuitive, but it was a great way to get started. Our first Flipgrid asked students to color in on their paper two different ways to make five on a fives frame. I began by modeling this for them and then having them color in their two ways. Then, after coloring, we went over how to use Flip and what they should record. Students learned that they needed to share what two ways they had done to make five. They loved it and when they realized that afterwards, they could listen to their classmates, it was pure magic.
The following week, we upped the ante a little,. This week, they watched a video about -at words and then wrote 5 -at words on their paper. As we got ready to record, they realized that when they showed their words on camera, they were backwards. This was a great learning opportunity to show students how to mirror their screen.