The EdTech team is always on the lookout for ways to enhance learning through technology. The Teaching with Technology series highlights different strategies to engage and encourage participation on Zoom and in-person.
Teaching with technology
Explain Everything
What
Explain Everything is a digital whiteboard for creating engaging videos for your students. It has a lot of other interactive features, too, when you’re ready to add to your knowledge.
Why
Create the video as a pre-class assignment that you can use during your live teaching session. Students can watch and re-watch the video as many times as they need. Our analytics show that these Explain Everything videos are some of the most watched videos on E.Flo MD!
How
Contact MedTech and we will get you all set up with an account and training, whether in person or over Zoom. Once you make your video, you can send it to us, and we will put it into Panopto for you.
Who
Dr. Henry Mroch is a member of faculty who uses this tool. Read on to see an example.
What do you like about Explain Everything?
- Flexibility to fit topics into a unique context.
- Format material in ways that help review a topic.
- I like to draw concepts.
Why do you recommend that faculty use it for teaching?
- It is a good format to leverage out-of-class time to make the classroom experience more fruitful.
- It allows creativity.
- It makes it possible to create short instructional materials to highlight difficult or important points.
Time
Both of our experts agreed that the best way to learn how to use Explain Everything is through trial and error.
They make their slides first either by writing with an Apple Pencil or inserting images that they can draw or write on. Once you make it, you can reuse it!