Create Student or Teacher Lessons at Educreations

Here’s another way for students to submit work from the iPads without having student email accounts.

Today’s site has been around for awhile and is quite easy to use.  It won’t work for submitting a long typed paper but would be quite good for digital storytelling in lower grades.

The site/APP is called Educreations.  It’s like Explain Everything, but free!  Here are the basics:

• Teachers can create a free account and create classes that are assigned a unique code.
• The students can join that class on the iPad by using the assigned code and creating a username instead of an email.
• Students can create lessons by taking pictures on the ipad and importing them, importing pictures from a website, drawing on the pictures, adding written or text notations, and adding voice recording.  So a student can use a diagram or picture to explain a concept or story both orally and with added notations.
• When the project is saved, it will be available for the teacher to see on his/her computer.  
• If every student in the class created an explanation of the life-cycle of a butterfly, they would all show up in the teachers folder that can be viewed by the teacher on any computer at school or at home. No worrisome transfer of files from iPad to computer or opening 20 emails with attached files.
• Teachers can create lessons or explanations which are available to the students when they sign in.
• See how a teacher used this to explain an anatomy lesson: http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/agonist-antagonist-muscle-pairings/375924/
• Students could do the same thing on the iPads.

 Check out their page at:  http://www.educreations.com/