Ways to use the app Educreations in your classroom

Check out Educreations!!! A FREE app that your students will love for presenting to their classmates. Educreations is an app that has blank pages that students can create a presentation for pretty much anything they are doing in class. Students can search for pictures on the web and import them as well type text, write or draw with the pen, and record their voice. I have used this app in my room for projects and station work. I used this app when we were studying weather. I grouped my students and they had to use their research information that we had already gathered to present what they had learned about severe weather. The students searched for a picture of each type of weather and pasted it on a separate page with the title typed or written at the top of each picture for their heading. The students could also include captions for the pictures and any other nonfiction text feature they would like to include. Then the went back to their first slide and began recording their information that they learned about each type of severe weather. The only downfall to this app is that you can only record once :( If you mess up there is no starting over. You have to start completely over with everything. This is hard for younger students, but I stress that it is very important to know exactly what you are going to say. I really hope that the company is working on this aspect. 
Another way I have used Educreations in my classroom is in stations. I may have students read a book and then summarize the book and include a picture, text, and their voice. I have also given the students math problems and they must write the math problems on the pages, write in words how they figured out the problem because it hard for second graders to explain their work in words, and they can also record what they wrote so that if there are spelling mistakes I can easily check their work with the recording. 
Any work done on Educreations can be saved and sent to your computer account. You can then pull up all of your presentations on the computer and share them via email, smart board, and other technologies. 
Most of the tutorials show how teachers use the app, but I have mostly just let my students use the app so far. Teachers can also make presentations to teach content or for anything you may need to present. There are also featured lessons available that others have made that may be useful to what you are teaching. 

Here is a tutorial with more information!

http://youtu.be/oer20QtZdMo

Here is a link of how a student used Educreations.

http://youtu.be/1CjCiDmGyaU

Here is an article on the impact Educreations in a school system. (you may have to copy and paste the link)

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/14/educreations-series-a/