When I was looking for tools to use, my first thoughts were that I wanted a tool that I could write on the screen and talk at the same time. That seemed to be the easiest way to create the videos. I thought it would be like teaching and modeling. I browsed several of the options but I ended up using educreations.com.
When I first started using it I thought it would be easy, it looked easy at least. However I wanted to use a stylist pen on my husbands surface but the website wouldn't let me use that. It wouldn't even let me use my finger to draw while I recorded. I had to use the mouse pad and I don't like how it looks in the video. If the stylist pen would work, I would use this program again and again. It was easy, click create new and a blank screen pops up and you can draw and talk at the same time. I love the idea. I am going to try again (and have my husband play with it) to see if I can get the pen to work. It would make the videos nicer and I could do more to the video. I love the idea of recording short videos, especially for math, where I could show how to use a strategy and have the video available for students to always go back to if needed. I am not the most artistic person so I Feel like my videos will be pretty basic and literally be to show exactly what students need to do. I don't see myself ever being that person who does the awesome drawing videos to explain things, but I can see myself using this tool in the future. Addition Algorithm - Rounding Strategy Video
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Evrim
4/22/2020 08:46:37 pm
Truthfully, I can't stand the Surface super annoying to figure out. YOu can buy a whole system pen and machine for cheap on amazon, Surface isn't worth the headache.
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Kirsten
4/29/2020 07:48:02 am
That's so funny cause I love our surface's, I have the laptop and it works great! I'm kinda wondering if it was the pen because Ryan used one and it worked 🤷♀️
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Tracy
4/27/2020 03:18:01 pm
I understand where you are coming from when you know the tool is there and that it can work but how to get it there is frustrating. I am not sure if it is helpful but I found a great annotating tool called Web Paint to help me explain things in my class.
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Kirsten
4/29/2020 07:48:49 am
I will check it out, thanks!
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Ryan Strole
4/28/2020 04:45:48 pm
Hey Kirsten,
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Kirsten
4/29/2020 07:46:31 am
It could have been the stylus maybe. 🤷♀️ I like how simple the tool is, so I'm definitely gonna try again!
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