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I explored both Educreation and Show Me.  I looked at Show Me first and found many simplistic lessons that looked just like something I would have scribbled on the whiteboard and narrated.  I wasn't really impressed with the examples I saw.  I did like that this is something that could help an absent student.  I also liked the part that gave a common core aligned section.  I do think this will be an app my first graders would be able to easily use.

Soft c and g lesson- Teacher (adult voice) talks about how c and g have more then one sound and gives examples.  This lesson was something straight off the whiteboard.  It was informative but if I hadn't heard the voice, I would've thought a student did it.

Word Families- Teacher (says, "good morning boys and girls") introduces two word families.  Then lists several words that fits under each.  This looked like something straight off a whiteboard and I even though the information was good, I don't think it would hold the students attention.



Next, I tried to go to the Educreation website and see examples.  I don't know what I was doing wrong but I couldn't find anything except a few stories.  Then, I google searched Educreation lessons and all kinds of stuff came up.  I liked that they looked more professional, colorful, and detailed.  If I was using screen casting to help students, I think I'd use Educreation.  This is something I could add to my website, not only to help students but parents also.

Character Education- Teacher (adult voice) talks and sings here way through the lesson on how to describe different character traits.  This was more effective then the visual as it was too colorful and busy looking.  It was nice that it was in large "powerful" letters though.

Prepositions- Teacher (adult voice) talking to students.  It was cute and early elementary appropriate.  I think this one did the best job of the voice and graphics complimenting each other.

I learned after watching these that in order to be effective, you need to balance your voice and graphics.  Mine probably wouldn't be the most effective if I was teaching a lesson.  I chose to do mine on our morning review because I figured this would be helpful if a student was absent.

Morning Review on Show Me

I think students who have iPads at home would like making these and sending them in instead of doing a worksheet.  I'm thinking math specifically, they could work out problems and explain the process.
I would use this app for warm-up or reteaching.  When students first come in they work on their Daily Review, if they couldn't remember how to do a section, they could play that day on their iPad.  One of the things parents struggle with most (according to the conferences I just had), is that "we do things differently now"  and they don't know what that way is.  So, if I had lessons linked to my web page, they would be able to better help their child with homework.
These activities would fall on SAMR's level of Substitution.