ShowMe

Based on an article by Audrey Watters

Original Publication Date June 26, 2011

Audrey Watters will be blogging from the ISTE Conference currently taking place in Philadelphia and gathering information on “the latest and greatest in education technology” (Watters, 2011).  To begin she introduced me to ShowMe an application for the i-Pad.  According to Watters, ShowMe combines interactive whiteboard technology with the i-Pad.  This eliminates the need for expensive hardware.  Teachers and students can write on the i-Pad and record their voice. ShowMe produces a video that can be uploaded to You-Tube or embedded on a website, much like the Kahn Academy videos.  The software also has the capability to import images to the lesson.  Watters reports that the application is incredibly easy to use.  She believes that this is due to the developers paying attention to what “teachers and students need from the tool” (Watters, 2011).

Creating educational videos without tons of equipment could be revolutionary.  Once i-Pads and the ShowMe application get into the hands of students and teachers they will begin to create and share videos, creating a library educational content.  It is the hope of San Kim, the founder of ShowMe, that individuals will “build hundreds of Kahn Academies.  That's a goal that puts teacher- and student-generated content at the center of education, one enabled by a simple, but smoothly functioning app.” (Watters, 2011). 

I think it’s time for me to research grants to purchase i-Pads for every student!

Watters, A. (2011, June 26). How consumer technology & user generated content are changing ed-tech [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_consumer_technology_user-generated_content_are.php