Augmented & Virtual Reality Communications & Collaboration Conceptual Change (KAT) Differentiation (KAT) Motivation (KAT) Personalisation (KAT) Scaffolding (KAT) Annotation Collaborative Learning Collaborative Writing Whiteboarding DescriptionEducreations is an interactive whiteboard tool that allows educators and students alike to design more enhanced and engaging presentations. On the Educreations site or iOS app, users can record, share, and view interactive lesson plans. Users can import images into their whiteboard with the free version and mark them up in real time up on a screen. This tool would be valuable for a variety of lessons. Sentence structuring, labelling diagrams, or even just playing games and tallying the score. Educreations makes the whiteboard process faster and more versatile for everyone.
1. Create an account on Educreations as a student or a teacher. If your institution has a Pro account with Educreations, you can register with your school during this process https://www.educreations.com/
2. On the website or on the app, there will be a “+” icon that allows you to create a new lesson. Clicking this will open up the whiteboard and start a voice recording.
3. Draw on your whiteboard, drag and drop images from your camera roll, and narrate in real time.
4. When finished, there is a “Done” button in the top, left corner of the screen. It will give you the option to save your lesson, or to start over.
Features- Record and replay your voice, handwriting, and drawings
- Snap a photo or import images from Photos, Dropbox, Google Drive, or the Web
- Animate images and text by tapping and dragging while recording
- Save a draft of your work and finish it later on other devices
- Share your lessons with your classes, or via link, email, Messages, Facebook, or Twitter
Affordances- Offer students additional instruction outside the classroom
- Enable students to control the pace of their learning
- Provide rich audio/video feedback on student work
- Gain deep insights into student comprehension
- Free up class time for hands-on learning and projects
Limitations- Save 1 draft at a time
- 50MB of storage space
Educator UsageMath: The interactive whiteboard, with uploadable graphics and tables, makes math come alive. Students can go at their own pace and even show their work more easily, allowing teachers to assist them more easily.
Science: Interactive labs are easy with Educreations. Advanced postings let students who may learn differently work at their own pace and students can share their individual steps following the scientific method with their teacher and fellow classmates.
English/Language Arts: Guided reading notes and literature/poetry analysis becomes much more lively when used alongside the Educreations interactive whiteboard.
Social Studies: Marking up documents as part of a video lesson is easier and much more readily accessible with Educreations. Also, with student based creation, practicing document analysis with a video recording allows students to share their methods and findings with each other.
iPad running iOS 9 or later
Other ResourcesOverview of Educreations (video)
Demo on Educreations (video)
Educreations FAQ
Educreation app (iPad only)
For more in depth FAQs, see Educreations’ website here