ShowMe


 * [|Showme]
 * [|www.showme.com]

Resources and links
[|www.showme.com] Articles and tutorials- [|www.showme.com/blog/category/how-to/]

Strengths:

 * Password protect for restricted access
 * When uploading your ShowMe, you can set it as public or personal.
 * It's free. Anyone and everyone can use the tools to share their knowledge through ShowMe.
 * You can add images, use various color markers, undo, clear screen and erase
 * A global learning community - a place where anyone can learn or teach anything
 * The ShowMe iPad app lets you create lessons using a whiteboard. The app is free and there is no limit what you can teach
 * Makes learning less standardized and more personalized
 * The[| ShowMe 101, The Basic Steps to Begin Creating!] shows users how to create a ShowMe
 * Explore by topic
 * You can create blogs
 * How-to’s and Do-It-Yourself’s
 * Feedback on student assignments and performance
 * Sports plays and strategy explanations
 * Violent subject material, hate speech, or obscenity is not tolerated
 * The Community forum is a great place to talk about ideas to help the app improve and ask questions
 * Tagging a ShowMe helps to organize it on the site as well as makes it easy to find

Weaknesses:

 * Age is not restricted
 * ShowMe tutorials could have negative messages
 * An iPad is required to create content

Opportunities:
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 * ShowMe is an app so users/students can continue to use this resource at home if they have an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or a PC.
 * Students are able to ask questions about a problem or video
 * Students can help one another by answering their classmates questions or even other from all over the world

Threats:

 * None

Ideas for the classroom:

 * Teachers can play videos more often to reinforce skills
 * Teachers can assign students videos to watch when working in groups
 * Teachers can use more videos as part of their lesson plans
 * Students can create and upload their own ShowMes to teach their peers what they know about newly acquired content
 * Parents can us ShowMe to access lessons/presentations to help their children with homework