Sunday, June 26, 2011

Show Me - create and share interactive lessons mobile app

Show Me is a free mobile app. It allows its users to create interactive whiteboard-like lessons on your iPad. It also allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online with your friends or colleagues. Show Me has already started a special page dedicated to support teachers via a gallery of lessons created by educators and each day there is  a Show Me of The Day that is added to this gallery.





Some features of Show Me

Here is a list of the main features that Show Me offers to its users :
  • It is free

  • It is simple to use

  • It has an intuitive interface

  • It lets you drop your images from your photo library to write over or around

  • You can record your ShowMe instantly and with such an ease that you do not need any complicated menus

  • You can easily switch between drawing and erasing and variuos other options

  • It has a directory of great tutorials created by Show Me community.

  • It is compatible with iPad and requires iOS 3.2 or later.

How can i get started using Show Me ?
Here is a short video tutorial for you to watch

ShowMe iPad App from San Kim on Vimeo.

Applications of Show Me in education

Educators can use Show Me app in various ways. They can use it to easily explain a range of topics from math to chemistry to music theory. They can also use it to Grade student work with commentary explaining the reasoning behind their performance. Show Me can also be use to deliver short and concise lessons to students or even get them to share  these lessons between each others.

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