This is a brief overview of ShowMe and great use cases we've seen over the past year.
ShowMe.com is an online learning community where you can learn or teach anything. Anyone can create lessons with our iPad app and upload them to our website. Once they are uploaded they can be shared with anyone interested in learning something new!
2. What is ShowMe?
ShowMe: an interactive whiteboard for
the iPad that allows you to instantly
create and record lessons.
• Lessons can be uploaded and shared with our
community, to be viewed on the app or the web
• Embedded on a blog or a website
• Emailed directly to someone
• Shared to twitter or facebook
3. • ShowMe is also an online learning
community with over 2 million lessons
and 100,000 registered users.
• You can learn and teach anything!
4. The ShowMe Mission
• Foster new types of interactions between teachers and
students and produce impressive results for learning.
• The interactive whiteboard allows for personalization of
learning, differentiation, and fosters independence in
students.
• Thousands of publicly uploaded lessons enrich the
community, helping students and teachers learn from
each other around the globe.
7. Flipping the Classroom
•JR originally created ShowMes to
supplement lessons taught in class.
•Eventually he started using his ShowMes to
Flip the classroom
Flipped Classroom: Students watch short
lectures at home, leaving class time for
application and understanding.
10. Using ShowMe in class
Cynthia teaches at an international school and has
found ShowMe to be extremely helpful for English
Language Learners
•Student watch ShowMes on their laptops alone
or in groups at the beginning of a 90 minute class.
• Students can pause, rewind and replay the
lessons as they need.
• Most importantly they ask Cynthia questions!
11. “I can not put all the words together to tell you how
much better my classroom is. However, there is lots
more outside preparation, it is worth the time...Test
scores are in. Grades are higher, and there are some
specific students whose scores are great testimonies
to how this has helped them.”
-Cynthia Ikey
12. Text
Erin Jewell
7th Grade English- Fresno, TX
13. Student work
• Best way to Show you’ve learned something: Teach
it!
•Erin had students create ShowMes on English topics
to prepare for the STARR- a mandatory state test in
TX.
•Students wrote scripts on an assigned literary topic
before creating a ShowMe
Moment of pride when students can share their work
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with friends and family outside of school!
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15. Reinforcement of concepts
• Dana Hagan, Speech Pathologist in Deer
Park, LI works with students to create a
ShowMe about what they’ve been taught
• Students interact with iPad and take turns
speaking. They discuss facts, ideas or solve
problems.
• When finished, students re-watch the ShowMe
answering further questions from Dana.
• ShowMe is made available to them to watch during
class or at home.
16. Self regulation and Social Skills
• Deb Sites in Northfield, MN helped a student with emotional
needs create a ShowMe
• When the student was calm, he created a ShowMe
describing steps he can take to calm down when he
became stressed or angry. (Ex. Count backwards from 10,
chair push ups, deep breaths)
• From then on, every time the student needed to bring
himself back to a calm state, he accessed the ShowMe on
the iPad.
• Since it was his own voice, it took the adult out of the
situation and helped him work on his independence.
18. Assessments
•A classroom set of iPads are
all signed into one ShowMe
account.
•During class, while working
through problem sets or quizzes,
students create ShowMes
to demonstrate learning.
• Authentic assessment. Teacher
can watch a ShowMe later to see
how well students understand concepts
or pinpoint where they begin to struggle.
21. Parent Communication
•Creates Weekly “Bond Briefs” explaining
what students did in class that week
•Emails the ShowMe to Parents and
shares on her school website.
22. Parent Communication cont...
•Share ShowMes related to class work with parents
via a class website or blog.
•Some concepts have been updated since Mom and
Dad were in school, show them the new (and
exciting!) way something is being taught with a
ShowMe.
•Parents will be excited to see student created
ShowMes in parent-teacher conferences.
23. Questions?
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