I have been looking at some of the Khan Academy videos, following Jason's introduction to them. It is inspiring, and I started to think to myself, "I wonder if I could make those kinds of videos?" I like the idea that it feels very much like a one-on-one tutor situation. So I began to download some apps on my iPad. I have Educreations, ShowMe, and Skitch on my iPad. I have begun to play around with them. It looks like Skitch is more of a support app, that would allow me to add visuals to the lessons fairly quickly. Of the other two, ShowMe seems to have a few more tools and is a little more user-friendly. It also looks like it would be fairly easy to upload the lesson to the Internet. I am planning my first one now, and hope to try it with students in the next week or two.

If you have any experience with other lesson video creation apps, I'd love to hear how they worked! Part of the draw of this for me is that it has really generated some personal enthusiasm to be trying something new and somewhat proven through another source. I hope that the students have the same enthusiasm!