Tuesday Tidbit
Online Whiteboards
Educreations- MY FAVORITE
Educreations is an exciting iPad app that turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. It will record your voice, handwriting, and allow you to insert images. Educreations provides multi pen colors as well. You can create a whole lesson using the multiple pages. It is easy to share your presentations with students and parents. Educreations makes is simple to explain anything!
Screencast-O-Matic
Screencast-O-Matic is a web based program similar to Educreations that will work on the Chromebooks. Students and teachers can create videos with Pixiclip by visiting www.screencast-o-matic.com. Screencast-O-Matic will also allow users to "record lectures, webinars, demos, games, Skype calls, etc and share free on Screencast-O-Matic, YouTube or save to a video file." There is a big movement for students to show what they know. When students have mastered the content they can share it by creating their own video. The two differences between this and Educreations is it will not record your handwriting and does not appear as a whiteboard. You simply share your screen. Give one of these a try and then encourage your students to do the same!