Week 12 Explain Everything

This week I explored Explain Everything which is a site designed to make learning more engaging and impactful.    

In Explain Everything, teachers can upload worksheets that they already use in their classroom and manipulate them so that they can be interactive and used digitally.   This site lends itself to collaboration as it allows students to work together on a project, whiteboard or worksheet from virtually anywhere.  

Teachers can also create their own custom assignments for students.  Teachers can record and upload videos of themselves presenting material that they uploaded to enhance a lesson for remote learning. Teachers can also use Explain Everything as a virtual whiteboard as they can upload an image and draw on the image.  These graphics can be uploaded onto YouTube and shared with students and other teachers.  

I appreciate that there are many tutorials on the website to teach users how to best use Explain Everything.  They also offer newsletters sent to your inbox for additional tips and tricks.   

There is a free version which allows teachers to have up to 3 projects at a time, 1 slide per project, and each video must be 3 minutes or shorter.  However, for $34.99 a year, teachers have more flexibility in video length, and they can have unlimited projects.  This price is per teacher.    

Explain Everything is a phenomenal tool for virtual learning.  The way teachers can record a video and present an interactive lesson makes students feel like they are right there with the teacher.   I am certain this was very useful during the pandemic.  In addition, the collaboration aspect is wonderful as it allows students in different classes or even students learning from home to work on projects together.  However, for in person learning, having the teacher in front of a classroom explaining the material is more impactful than watching the teacher on a screen.   Face to face learning and collaboration is best.  There is definitely a need for Explain Everything and I would definitely use it if I needed to teach virtually.