I loved using the whiteboard, Educreations. It was fun, easy, effortless to create a tutorial and did not take as much time to record the lesson. I did a recording on the equation used for Pearson’s Correlation. I did three takes but on average it took me two minutes for each take; a total of less than 10 minutes as a whole was spent on the recording. When I finally had something I was satisfied with, I clicked “done” and the program walked me through the process to save and send to my friends if I wanted to. I was even given the option to save the tutorial on the site and have anyone view it, send it to my students, send it to my school, or send the tutorial only to a selected few. I created a total of four tutorials.
For one tutorial I created a storyboard. I wanted to experiment with the program using a demonstration that was not math related. I typed out my story first and then was able to record myself reading the story and drawing along the way. Because I am still new to Educreations, I messed up a few times but continued with the story. I must warn you that the drawings are horrible but I was able to do something other than a math equation. A negative note? Really?On a negative note, whiteboard is a one-way communication tool. Teachers can create lessons, send it to their students but students cannot comment about the tutorial or raise questions on the tutorial site. When David sent me his whiteboard creation I was able to watch it but had no place to initiate dialogue.
One question I had but was not able to find an answer to, was how long recoding’s could be? David’s demonstration lasted eight minutes but I wondered what length of time was allowed for the recordings. I searched a few tutorials on Educreations and saw some that went on for thirty minutes but I did not see any recordings longer than that.
Overall, with the time I was given for this assignment and the quick 4-minute demonstration on Pearson’s Correlation that I created, I would have to say it was pretty easy to use Educreation. I had so much fun I created four different tutorials and one storyboard that I could share with family and friends. The best part of the whole experience was when I registered to Educreations, I was immediately contacted by customer service via email, who provided me a name and email address of someone who could assist me if I had any problems. For someone like me who is not as tech savy, that brought some assurance that Educreations wanted me to be comfortable using their product.
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