Technology Tidbit!

It's amazing how many apps there are for our students nowadays. One of the apps that I find to be most helpful as a classroom teacher is the app Educreations. The best part is that it is free! Basically this is an interactive whiteboard for students which you can add clipart, photos and record voice.



How can you use this app?

There are so many ways to use this. 

1.) You can record yourself teaching a lesson. Maybe you thought the math lesson was super hard and when students go home, they may not be able to complete the assignment. You can give parents access to your special educreations class code and parents and students can review the lessons you record. Here's an example of a video I made to review for the math test.



2.) Students can create their own lessons. What I love is students can create their own account and link up to their class page and create their own slideshow videos. It is a great way to access how much they actually grasped from the lesson, a great tool for assessment. 


Below is a video from a student who made her own video at home after learning about addition.




3.) If you think you are going to be absent you can even record a video to play and the substitute could access the video with simple login directions.

4.) For students who also struggle with generating ideas for writing or students who have a hard time organizing their thoughts, this app can be very helpful. One student who was struggling remembering what to write used this app and was able to listen back to his voice on headphones and playback parts that he needed to remember. His thoughts were a lot faster then his writing ability. This helped him work at his pace. He went from from nothing on a page to a full story. 




What other ways can you use this app for!? Let me know all of your ideas!




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