Comments on: The Most Interesting Use Of Educreations /2014/the-most-interesting-use-of-educreations/ less helpful Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Layers Of Differentiated Assessment In Math Class | Chalkboard Inquiries /2014/the-most-interesting-use-of-educreations/#comment-1927362 Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:01:24 +0000 /?p=19598#comment-1927362 […] A student or teacher walking around the class watching and listening to responses to meaningful math questions, puzzles or games, are both engaged in another important layer of assessment:  Observation.  These observations can, but don’t necessarily have to, lead to conversations.  The benefit here is that through observation, student thinking can be seen in its raw form; in the moment.  These important glimpses into student thinking, as they work to make sense of how new math ideas match with what they already know, are essential to the assessment process.  Digital platforms like EduCreations or VoiceThread can help the teacher capture those important but at times elusive opportunities to observe a student in a class of thirty.   This was discussed in more detail by Dan Meyer, here. […]

]]> By: Dennis Ashendorf /2014/the-most-interesting-use-of-educreations/#comment-1801360 Mon, 26 May 2014 00:16:41 +0000 /?p=19598#comment-1801360 You are fabulous teachers. I’m not sure I’m willing to give the time to view so many videos.

]]> By: Dan Meyer /2014/the-most-interesting-use-of-educreations/#comment-1757742 Sat, 17 May 2014 20:44:02 +0000 /?p=19598#comment-1757742 Thanks for the insight, everybody. I featured some comments on the main post from Kate, Ryan, and Wade.

]]> By: Wade Roberts /2014/the-most-interesting-use-of-educreations/#comment-1753298 Fri, 16 May 2014 17:24:48 +0000 /?p=19598#comment-1753298 Great questions!

@Helen – templates are a great idea and we’re planning to enable you to create them and easily distribute them to students in the near future.

@Bryan – Android is the next logical platform for us to support, but we don’t yet see sufficient demand to justify the cost of development. We’re monitoring Android tablet growth within schools, but iPad is still over 90% of school market. It is already possible to replay our videos on Android, however.

@Cathy – yes, we will be enabling video export in a major app update coming later this summer, along with many other amazing new features.

]]> By: Cathy Yenca /2014/the-most-interesting-use-of-educreations/#comment-1753231 Fri, 16 May 2014 16:50:35 +0000 /?p=19598#comment-1753231 @Wade Roberts – do students and teachers have access to the actual video files in Educreations? Sometimes kids like to remix their work (cut from a screen cast to a video demonstrating how to, say, use a graphing calculator for something, then back to the screen cast… or… add music, transitions, etc.). I’m curious if Educreations give students that type of control/ownership over the vids. Thanks!

]]> By: Student Voice and Explain Everything | MathyCathy's Blog – Mrs. Cathy Yenca /2014/the-most-interesting-use-of-educreations/#comment-1753029 Fri, 16 May 2014 15:52:03 +0000 /?p=19598#comment-1753029 […] like Dan Meyer is seeing value in capturing students’ voice […]

]]> By: Bryan Anderson /2014/the-most-interesting-use-of-educreations/#comment-1752722 Fri, 16 May 2014 13:55:37 +0000 /?p=19598#comment-1752722 @Wade Roberts Our school is starting to pick up learnpads. We received 30 last month and our admin will order more dependent on interest and use. How soon before we can use Educreations on this platform?

]]> By: Helen Squires /2014/the-most-interesting-use-of-educreations/#comment-1751377 Fri, 16 May 2014 06:08:31 +0000 /?p=19598#comment-1751377 We are a Year 1-8 school in NZ and many classes are using educreations and/or explain everything for children to record their thinking through and solving problems in maths (among other things). It really is a fantastic way of getting an understanding of how they are thinking independently and any misconceptions they have. The children all have their own blogs and embed their educreations onto their blog as evidence of what different strategies they can use.
It is great that they are able to access educreation from their chromebooks. It would be amazing if there was the ability to create a template that could be used by each child to record on as you can do in explaineverything. I love both of these apps – they are so powerful in the classroom.

]]> By: Wade Roberts /2014/the-most-interesting-use-of-educreations/#comment-1751243 Fri, 16 May 2014 05:12:38 +0000 /?p=19598#comment-1751243 Wade here, co-founder of Educreations. Thanks, Dan, for sharing this great post on Marian’s presentation. I wish I could watch a video of her talk, but the slides are very helpful.

We’re incredibly excited about this use-case. People are often surprised when I tell them that just over half of the 5 million videos on our platform have been created by students.

We’ve been thinking a lot about how we might develop new app features to better support teachers who want to implement this strategy. I’m interested in hearing any ideas you guys may have.

]]> By: Cathy Yenca /2014/the-most-interesting-use-of-educreations/#comment-1750459 Fri, 16 May 2014 01:00:12 +0000 /?p=19598#comment-1750459 My students used the Explain Everything app recently to create review videos for the Algebra end-of-course exam. They’re quite fun, and many of them are wrong. Since our class culture embraces mistakes pretty comfortably, we used the incorrect videos as talking points just as much as the correct ones. Feel free to check them out – and be kind, we’re really new at this!

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/515598950074417152

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