Educreate Your Story

Students will:

• Be able to create an digital story about themselves by adding drawings of their family members, pets, and house.
• Be able to take and or find pictures to include their favorite color, animal, and food. 
• Be able to record their voice explaining what each item is.

Vocabulary Words:

1. Draft: A draft is not your final video. It needs more items added, and you need to come back to it to finish it.
2. Lesson: For Educreations a “lesson” is the same as creating a video recording.

To prepare for this lesson:

• Load Educreations on all the devices. Note:You do not need to pay for the Pro model. The free version allows one lesson at a time.

• Teachers need to create a Class and share their seven-letter code with their Kindergarteners the first time they access Educreations.

• Teachers need to explain to students they can only be working on one lesson (creation) at a time. Students must click on “Save Finished Video” to create a second lesson (creation).

• Watch Educreations "Cool Tool" Presentation

• Watch Real Teachers Real Examples. 

See the Accommodations Page and Charts on the 21things4students website in the Teacher Resources. 

The teacher has the students turn on their devices to use the Educreations App. 

Student Directions:

• Open Educreations tap the + to create a new lesson
• Page One - Students choose a pencil & color > write their names on the screen > tap the + to add a selfie by using the devices camera > crop the image to accommodate the page.
• Page Two - Students will draw their favorite animal.
• Page Three- Students will draw a picture using their favorite color.
• Page Four - Students will draw their favorite food.
• Page Five - Students draw their family.
• (Add as many pages as you would like and or edit the favorite list)
• Students go back to Page One by tapping the arrow in the lower left.
• Students tap the RED “Record” button in upper left.
• Students will record their voice explaining each page. They will need to advance the pages forward using the arrow in the lower right.
• When done with the recording - Tap the “pause” button in the upper left.
• Finished - Tap the arrow out icon in the upper left.
• “Save Finished Video” > Title “Students Name”
• Save - Upper right

Teacher Directions:

• The lesson/video will now be in your class set to view.
• You or the student can share it to peers, parents, or others using the share icon and or use the link.

Different options for assessing the students:

• Observations
• Check for understanding
• Teachers will view the students' videos from their classroom lists. Each students needs to have drawings, images, and audio explaining each page.
• By students demonstrating the steps they will provide the teacher evidence of proper use of Educreations.
• Teachers can use this tool to assess all areas of the classroom. The students can take a picture of their work and explain what they've done.
  • Example: In Math, a student can do their math problems directly inside Educreations, then by recording their voice they can explain their understanding and mastery of the concept.