Educreations: A New Way to do Presentations

The Educreations App is free app available on IPads, that allows for teacher to produce new video lessons to teach new material. The app functions similar to a normal class presentation, but records it and allows for access to that lesson at any time. Teachers can draw or insert pictures/graphs into the presentation. The app allows for teachers to insert pictures/graphs from their personal library or take new pictures. The app allows for the teacher to then modify or draw on top of that picture/design. The presentation can be created using one page or multiple pages, and allows for undoing or redoing anything written on each page. Once the lesson is recorded, then the teacher can save it for private, public, my students, or make it available to my school. I definitely think I could use the Educreations App in my future classroom. I think it would be great way to introduce information to individual students to start a lesson. The only problem would be that students could not ask questions during the video to the teacher, but perhaps the teacher could be available in the room to answer questions. I think it would be especially great for math, because it would describe what the teacher is thinking as he or she answers the questions. So then students can try to imitate that thinking. Students could also watch the videos at their own pace. The teacher could easily provide a worksheet that could act as an assessment during the video as well. Students could also repeat difficult to understand parts of the video as much as they want, or assess the video again at night during homework. Perhaps the videos could also be paired with homework so that the video explains how to do homework, instead of spending time in class. The recorded presentations also makes it easier on the teacher because they only have to be recorded once, not each year.