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The ShowMe app has just become available through the iTunes app store. ShowMe lets you create audio-narrated whiteboard diagrams. The diagrams can be uploaded to the ShowMe site (after you have registered at their site). The diagram can be uploaded as either a public or private drawing. A private drawing can be shared with others by giving them the URL to the drawing. Public drawings can be searched at the ShowMe site. From the web site, the drawing can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, email, or embeded in your web site or blog.

You may want to consider getting a stylus. You can read reviews by clicking on the links in this post.

When you open the app (which works only in landscape view), the toolbar shown below appears. In addition to drawing and erasing, images can be imported from your Photo library on your iPad.

How could this app be used in education?

• Teachers could create screencasts of topics for students to watch. The screencasts could be assigned for previewing prior to coming to class (as in "flipping the classroom"). To learn more about flipping, read Think Tank: Flip-thinking – the new buzz word sweeping the US and The Flipped Classroom Network.
• Screencasts could be viewed by students for reviewing material covered in class.
• If each student or group of students had an iPad, they could be assigned to create a screencast on a particular topic, which then be viewed by the teacher and other students in the class (either at the ShowMe web site or at the class’s web site).

Showme is an iPad app that is development that I think will be a great app when it is ready.

You can learn more about it here at TechCrunch.

In an earlier post, I discussed the learning strategy called whiteboarding. If each student (or least each group of students) had an iPad, they could use the iPad as a whiteboard and record what is written using ReplayNote. ReplayNote is in essence used for screencasting so what ever is recorded can be uploaded to YouTube or an email can be sent, which will contain an URL to a webpage containing the screencast. The videos can be up to 10 minutes long.

Here’s an explanation and a review of the app:

Although most people can type faster than they can write, some may have a difficult time with the keyboard on the iPad and would prefer to hand write their notes. If you want to convert your hand-written notes to text, try WritePad.

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