In preparation for this lesson, the teacher went to educreations.com and created an account. Upon doing so, he was provided with a class code. When the students went to the educreations.com site, they clicked on register as a student and typed in the class code when making their account. This way, all of the recordings they make will be saved to the teacher’s class page, so he can easily view and share them. The students used their computer log in information as their username and password so they would not have to remember a separate log in.
In small group rotations, students grabbed a laptop and an order of operations problem and took them back to their desk. That way there wasn’t as much chatter in the background while students were recording. The rest of the class was working on some order of operations problems on a worksheet while they waited for their turn.
The students wrote out the problem in educreations, and then pressed record. While they were recording, they used the different colored pen tools to explain how they would go about solving this problem. This is a great way for the teacher to see where the students are making mistakes. He can also use examples where the student’s got it correct and post it on a blog as a model for how to solve an order of operations problem. There were a couple of problems that the students were having trouble with on their math worksheet, so I encouraged them to choose a problem that they struggled with and use educreations to explain how to solve the problem.
