Lisa+Hansen-+Educreations

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 **Abstract**:[|Educreations]offers free video creation and hosting for teachers and students. Educreations.com features a virtual white board and allows you to teach an instructional lesson through the use of drawings and images, and also by recording audio for your content. There is a large library of recorded lessons that are available to the public. One feature available for teachers is the creation of a “course.” Students in your class can then register for an account and join your course. All videos that you have stored on your course would be accessible to students. This program can be accessed through the web, or as a downloadable app on the iPad. ======

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**Personal Experience**: Upon exploring the resources in the online book, [|40 Must-Know Web 2.0 Edutools: A Quick Guide] by Mohamed Amin Embi's (2013), I discovered Educreations. Although I could not find much content for Kindergarten, it offered a wide variety of lessons that are free to the public. I was create a short video about addition that I am going to show my class tomorrow. It was time consuming (at least for me) to create a video, because all the images you would like to use have to be saved on your computer in a photo album before you can insert them into the video. ======

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I think this community would be useful for middle school and secondary education teachers that teach the same content several times a day. It’s a fun way to incorporate technology while saving your time from drawing the same charts, graphs, and vocabulary words on the board multiple times. It would also be a useful tool for having the students review (and preview) class material. Since it is accessible from home, students are able to refer back to the videos for additional help. ======