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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Educreations App
Here is a short and corny example of what you can do with Educreations app on the ipad. It allows you to add pictures or documents, type, and write with your finger or stylus and record audio while you are doing so. You can create a written and visual document before recording the audio if you have a larger amount of material you want to set up first.
This is a great way to create short video topics on subjects you covered or are going to cover in class. Then, you can embed them in D2L and have students watch them. This would be a great way to have students watch the videos before class and then use them as a discussion topic, or for introductions to the weekly topics.
Anyway, this is a free app that I think is incredibly useful.
Let me know what you think!
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This sounds very interesting. Can you email it from inside the app to someone in your contact list? Also, I tried similar apps and it seems forever for the file to get formatted when you are exporting or emailing it. What has been your experience?
ReplyDeleteThere is a "share" button which makes it quick and easy to email to anyone, post on Facebook or Twitter, copy just the link, or the one I use most, the embed code to put on D2L for easy sharing with the whole class. There was no lag time at all in sending an email or any of the other sharing methods, although I did not try it with Twitter.
ReplyDeleteI like it a lot. Great for online classes too in creating more of an on ground experience and the students in on ground classes seem to like the short recaps on important topics. I have also used it as I mentioned for prep for class discussion and it worked well as most viewed it and came prepared to discuss.
I just downloaded the Educreations app. I love it! I will start creating mini-lectures on my iPad using this app. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Great app! I am taking this semester to develop tutorials for my Basic Musicianship class for each unit we cover. The ease of creating and sharing the sessions makes it perfect for those times in class where you know students are not getting something and you can immediately create a tutorial and post it on D2L or by any other social network platform. I discovered it after my 11 year old was working on some of the Khan Academy videos. Educreations is very similar.
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