Step 1- Sign up for a free account. If you have an Ipad, download the free app.
Step 2-Take pictures of student work. You may use a camera and upload it to your computer or if using an Ipad take the pictures with it.
Step 3-While logged into your Educreations account, start creating the video.
Step 4- Find the student’s picture by choosing the picture icon (circled) and browsing to the appropriate file and opening. It should appear on the screen.
Step 5- Push the record button and record the student’s voice narrating the piece. If doing this from your computer, you may need a plug in mic.
Step 6- If recording just one student, push done button. If doing whole class, push pause. Then drag the picture to the trash, undo to remove it, or click on and delete. Find the next students picture and continue as before. Disclaimer: If recording whole class and ½ way through someone make a mistake you have to start all over. They should practice before to build fluency prior to recording. When done with all students push the done button.
Step 7- You will then name your lesson and fill out the necessary information. In order to embed the video into your blog to share with parents and students, you MUST choose the public option. This will give you an embedded link you can use in your blog. Note, in order to do this you should have parent’s permission. I get permission at the beginning of the year.
Congratulations you have just created your first Educreations lesson.
P.S. Another of my favorite ways to use this app is to use the drawing tools and do step by step narrated math problems and post to my blog to help parents and students with math homework. I post them in my blog under Math Help I just started this year and plan to make a bunch this summer. The parents really appreciated it because they just don’t get this “new way of doing math”. Hint:Remember, you can pause throughout your recording to set up further slides, to annotate images, to collect your thoughts, or to take a breather! Browse the Educreations site and see other great ways to use this tool and what is already available from other teachers.