Periscope

Periscope is a live streaming app from which users can broadcast content and comment in real time. Periscope integrates into users’ Twitter accounts. To begin, users title and tweet out a link to their Periscope session, and the live streaming of the Periscope session begins immediately. If users do not want to tweet out a link to their session, other Periscope users can find the session via the person’s Periscope account or via an interactive world map which shows Periscope users all the live and archived Periscope streams occurring around the world. Users can switch between the forward and front-facing cameras by swiping up on their screens while they broadcast content. Viewers can comment in real time and award hearts (likes) to streams. Upon completion of a stream, each full-length video is archived in users’ Periscope profile and camera roll for later viewing.

Instructional Ideas

1. Teachers can instruct students to view a live event and write a newspaper report about everything that took place.
2. Teachers can take students on a first-person perspective field trip, ask questions to experts, etc.
3. Teachers can instruct students to video blog their reflections, project updates, summer reading lists, and more!
4. Teachers can stream their lectures, study sessions, and office hours for students, or stream student performances for parents who cannot attend the event.
5. Teachers can post archived videos of class for absent or home-bound students.

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