Rating: 4/5
Educreations
Version 2.0 is a free interactive whiteboard and screencasting iPad app.
Students, friends, and colleagues can share their ideas or a concept through a narrated,
animated, and/or annotated video. Teachers can create instructional videos to
share with their students and easily sync the lesson on their students’
iPads. Students without iPads can view the lessons through the Educreations
website. The designer of the videos can record their voice, handwrite, draw,
import photos, animate images, share their videos on social networks, and
embed their video in a website and/or blog.
Educreations
will definitely fall under the create category of the iPad Pedagogy Wheel if
used correctly. I can envision students in a classroom using Educreations to create
their own modernized adaptation of a text. For example, once the class has
read Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and watched
She’s The Man, students will write their
own retelling of the work. Afterwards, students will create a video of
the modernized adaptation they wrote using Educreation. Additionally, teachers can use
Educreations to flip the classroom. Students will watch instructional videos at
home and spend class time on discussions, projects, or exercises. Teachers can possibly use the videos in Educreations as an overlay for a trigger image in Aurasma.
This app
can ignite creativity in the classroom, but it has a fundamental limitation; students and teachers can ONLY create videos if they have an iPad. Obviously,
not all students or teachers have an iPad, but maybe Educreations Inc. in the
future will make their app more accessible.
Library of lessons available to a class.
Explanation of an animal cell using Educreations.
An example of an instructional video for students.
Division Story Problem, a student created video.
Hi Gustavo!
ReplyDeleteEducreations appears to offer some really interactive and creative measures that allow teachers and students alike to become more involved in lessons. I like your idea of creating an adaption to a text using this app. I'm sure the results will be both beneficial to the lesson and fun to watch!
Hello Shafika!
DeleteEducreations is an app that allows teachers and students to get more creative!
Hey Gustavo,
ReplyDeleteThis app seems fantastic. I'm sincerely impressed with how well it can handle a lot of the nuances of learning. By that I mean to say that this app budgets for children's creative potential, and their ability to teach other students when they seem to know something well enough. The ability to create an instructional video, as a student, is significant. Moreover, the ability to browse the lesson plans through the library is intuitive, and that's something children can benefit from, for certain. I was genuinely excited learning about this app, and it was encouraging to see children learning and demonstrating their understanding through this use of technology.
Hello Nick,
DeleteThe opportunity for students to be creative and teach each other is what genuinely got me excited about this app.