Educreations: An App for both Teachers and Students

Educreations

For all you Mac users out there, this app is one that you are missing out on! Most people are unaware of this FREE app for education; in fact, mostly only educators know about it. This app is commonly used by educators in 1:1 technology situations; however, our world is missing out on a huge opportunity for a free education by not downloading Educreations.

The major function of this application is a presentation. Educreations allows the user to create a presentation. Within your presentation you can add graphics and text to prepare the information. Still using just the standard presentation function, Educreations allows the user to begin recording a presentation. This is when the user is sharing the creation with and audience, or presenting it to be shared with an audience. The way Educreations records a presentation is by showing the presentation with mark ups and the overhead voice of the presenter. After the presentation, or flipped classroom presentation, the user is able to share the presentation with the live voice and markup with anyone via email, social media, and more.

This seems like it is still mainly an app for educators and presentations; however, what is commonly unused are the featured presentations pre-stored on this application. Educreations has a nearly innumerable amount of featured presentations available to anyone on this application for free. The teaching demonstrations range in a multitude of subject areas: Computer Technology, Creative Arts, Health and P.E., Language Arts, Mathematics, Professional Development for teachers, Science, Social Students, Special Education, Vocational Studies, World Languages, and for any other presentation that may not fit in those categories, an Other section. The leveling of these classes may be toward a younger crowd, more toward the high school age; yet, this does not mean that they cannot be useful to everyone. The typically eight minute presentations can allow any life-long learner to further their education with as much breadth or depth that they may please. Check out Educreations!