Show me ideas

As I read through the Show Me blog here are some ideas that I think could be used in the classroom:

Formal assessment
Science
1. KE and PE. Have students take picture and add drawings over the top along with audio to explain how gravitational, PE, and KE work within the scene. Example...show a skateboard half pipe and add drawings of a skateboarder. Perhaps students are asked to go outside and find and example of how energy changes form. Other possibilities might include playing on the playground slides, swings, climbing, shooting hoops, etc.... http://www.showme.com/sh/?i=40940

2. You can do inquiry worksample presentations. http://www.showme.com/sh/?i=58624. Check out this example for a way to use both audio, pictures, and drawings to explain their experiment. I think it would be important to have students write their script as well as slides. This looks a lot like a PowerPoint presentation with the enhanced audio.

Other uses in the classroom...

1. Some teachers are creating their lessons ahead of time for kids to watch. Interesting idea since students can view, pause, and replay as needed. Other teachers are creating demos on how to do something like a certain type of math problem or even how to do a lab. Others are finding that by recording their "lecture" they are able to walk around the room and monitor understanding and behavior. Kids are able to learn at their own pace and the teacher is free to work with students. Not to mention you could use this as practice for the next day and send to absent kids. I love this short example on prepositional phrases. http://www.showme.com/sh/?i=16085. I can't believe how effective this was for me. Have teachers looked through these to see if there are lessons they can use and not recreate? Go to
Showme.com and click on "learn any topic" to find lessons and/or ideas for lessons.


Show Me and your blog. How do you get these on student blogs or edmodo?

Create your ShowMe! Add images, interesting antecdotes and relevant information. Make it awesome!
Save your ShowMe, title it, and add important tags so it can be categorized on the site. The upload it
Navigate to your ShowMes page and click on “embed” in the top right corner of the video player. Copy this text.
Open the blog post you are writing. There will be a tab in the top right of the text boxt that says HTML. Click that
Paste the link you copied earlier where you want it to appear in your writing.
You’re done!