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Creating in Educreations

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Educreations received a slight makeover, and it now has a few new features that allows teachers to push lessons out to student accounts, while also being able to see published student work for those enrolled in her/his classes. What is Educreations? Educreations is an interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool for both the iPad and desktop computer. Its features include drawing, annotation, and narration. You can insert photos straight from your camera, photo album, Dropbox, Google Drive, and from the Internet. Benefits Students can use Educreations to investigate ideas , and create videos to share their thinking and learning. Teachers can use student artifacts as formative assessments as evidence of learning or misconceptions/gaps in understanding.   Teachers can use Educreations to send presentations to students as well. How do you use it? How do Teachers sign up and create a Class account? How do students sign up and connect with the Class acc