Educreations

Instead of creating my own website, I chose to explore Educreations.  I have created a website before and wanted to explore something new.  This multimedia site is very easy to use, but I was frustrated with the fact that I could not upload documents.  I thought I could at first, so I spent all this time typing up some things, adding pictures, and making it look fancy.  Then I tried uploading all of the stuff I created and it wouldn't highlight it because it was a document.  On Educreations you can only upload pictures.  I tired saving my documents as photos, trying anything I can to make what I created work, but it wouldn't.  So, I had to picture hunt for images over my topic.  My topic was "Parts of Speech", defining basic terms such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, article adjectives, conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, and interjections.  Along with defining the terms, I also showed how to label parts of speech within a sentence.  I had perfect sentences created breaking the sentence apart, piece by piece to the end.  However, I could not use them and had to find a picture of a sentence.  That was difficult, but I found a simple one that I could write on and label.  I like this site as I stated before, but another aspect I am not thrilled about is the fact that you cannot erase what you recorded.  If you want to, you have to start the entire thing over and that is including uploading all the pictures again.  I definitely see myself using this tool to in my classroom to introduce a concept or standard as well as for demonstration purposes.  I can also see my students using this tool as an assessment piece showing what they have learned.  It would be a fun partner activity. 

http://www.educreations.com/course/lesson/view/parts-of-speech/6974636/