I don't know what it is about snow days that inspires me to blog! Maybe it's because snow days are the perfect chance to experiment with new digital literacy tools, and blogging is the perfect forum for sharing the results of experimenting. 

Next week, the gifted teacher and I will teach our staff how to use Educreations, which is a tool for creating and sharing video lessons that both teachers and students can use. Teachers can use this tool to: present a new concept, review a familiar concept, post on their website for parents and students to watch or review material at home, etc. Students can use it to demonstrate and teach how to solve a math problem, when and why to use punctuation, to record a book talk or book review, etc. The possibilities are truly endless, and it's really simple to use! Here is a simple Educreation that I created while experimenting with the tool today. The topic is writing mini-lessons. Warning: my voice sounds pretty funny.

 http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/writing-mini-lessons/15370777/?s=oUzQKN&ref=app

Please comment below on how you have used Educreations or a similar tool in your own classroom OR how you could envision using this tool to support current and future literacy work in your classroom.  

Thanks for reading LOL!