Third culture kids are kids who are living in a different culture from the passport country. They are neither local to where they attend school or where their parents are from. If I was a librarian here in Kigali, Rwanda, I would use flip grip to have our students share a little about their home/passport country. Typically international schools have an international day that has a parade, food, and each kid dresses in traditional dress of their passport country. Everyone looks forward to that day and I know they will be disappointed to miss it this year because of COViD.
In lieu of the in-person version of this could be a really great way to replace international day. If each students was asked to dress up and tell everyone something interesting about their passport country, they could all get to know one another a little bit and interact well.
Another fun prompt would be to ask if you could go anywhere, where would you go? I would love to hear which kids would go to see family members at a distance or revisit places they’ve already been as well as kids who have ideas about new places they’d like to go.
I actually wonder if we could use flip grid with staff at the embassy where my spouse works to build community. So many people are new to Kigali but because of quarantine and work from home restrictions, we haven’t met many people yet. It could be a helpful way to build relationships.
There are so many neat ways to use Flipgrid. Your passport country idea is great, and because it’s video each student would be able to show off parts of their home countries culture through their dress or items they have around the house.