Educreations App

Matt and I returned from the NCTIES conference with some cool new information. One of the coolest apps we learned about is Educreations ( http://www.educreations.com/ ). To quote the site verbatim, "Educreations is a recordable interactive whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting to produce amazing video lessons that you can share online. Students and colleagues can replay your lessons in any web browser, or from within our app on their iPads. Check out the "Showcase" on our homepage or the "Featured" tab in our iPad app to view some great lessons that other teachers have created with Educreations." The teachers at my school are really excited about this app. One second grade teacher is using it to assess students by letting students create lessons on content they have learned and then submitting it to the teacher via email. I had a front row seat today watching a whole class recording the steps to solve an addition problem and how to use a number line right on their iPads. The teacher then watched the lessons on her computer to see if the students had mastered the content.  Student engagement was through the roof and the teacher was able to assess the students quickly. I thought this activity was much better than a quiz! Keep you eye on this app I think it's going to be a hot one.