Community reviews for Explain Everything

Explain Everything is a useful tool for stimulating thought before a lesson (such as creating a brief presentation with essential questions for students to think about) or for recapping critical information (such as putting together a presentation that reviews the key ideas after a lesson or discussion). It is user-friendly and doesn't require a lot of preparation to use effectively, by either teachers or students. Its simple interface means that the emphasis is on content, not on fancy effects.

Explain Everything is one of the most flexible iPad apps. Developed as a screen casting app, I have found it is so much more. I'm able to utilize Smartboard technology without the cost and make thinking visible by allowing students to create interactive presentations, posters, and mind maps. EE allows me to engage the learner by moving away from the paper-driven work that tends to define traditional classrooms and integrate technology-inspired lessons that allow students to be social — to interact around challenging concepts in powerful conversations with their peers. It's so easy to use and has transformed my teaching. I've become the facilitator as opposed to the authoritative figurehead, thereby effectively communicating information in a relevant manner.

Explain Everything is one of the best Apps out there for iPad and Android. Explain Everything allows teachers and students to create instructional videos right on the iPad. Teachers can easily differentiate instruction by creating short videos on different levels using Explain Everything. It allows you to annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. If you have mobile devices in the classroom, you should be using Explain Everything.

Explain Everything is versatile--it can be used by students to create an animation or a tutorial or screencast, but it can also be used by teachers for a filpped classroom assignment, a screencast, or an animation of a concept.

Explain Everything is exactly what it say, it allows the user to explain information they know or have learned. I started using this app to flip my middle school classroom and found it to be the best tool for creating videos for my students. When trying to push myself above the line in the SAMR model, I realized that students creating their own material and using that to teach others, is a very powerful tool in my classroom.

This tool is the best, in my opinion, of the whiteboarding tools. It allows teachers to create whiteboard-based demonstrations and allows students to respond in kind, demonstrating their master of a concept and submitting the finished file to the teacher.

Loved the interactivity. Loved the conversations and creations it sparked even more.

I was able to generate an audio/visual lesson plan quickly from an existing non-audible PowerPoint presentation. Embedded additional audio, websites, and videos on the fly. It was easy to mimic my classroom lecture delivery digitally for future classes. This will be a great tool to deliver digital lesson plans for a work at your own pace program such as mine. With students taking classes at different times, different levels as well as various entry times in my program, I will be able to memorialize as well as improve/edit my lesson delivery.

There are several reasons that you want to capture process - modelling to set up an assignment, how to use a tool, how a student understands a tool or process. After creating this capture you might want to distribute it as scaffolding, give feedback to a student on the process or have students give feedback each others process. This tool is great because it allows the capture to be done easily, with lots of markup and media tools and has many ways to distribute the final product. Making the final video can take some time and there is a separate product to speed this up using a computer if you have a lot to do.

If you're interested in flipping lessons, Explain Everything is a great app to get you there.