Show me the Nervous System!

High School biology teacher Hilary Staples uses ShowMe (@showmeapp) to transform students into teachers:

In order to review what they learned during their unit on the Nervous system students needed to be able to explain various concepts such as the anatomy of the brain, how we hear, see, smell and taste, and neurons. In addition they needed to understand the more complicated physiology of how neurons communicate, create electrical signals and transfer information chemically across the synapse. As they say, "If you can teach it, then you know it." That is why students were put into pairs or threes and given a topic in which to make a ShowMe. Then the links to the ShowMe presentations were added to their review sheets in the class Box (@BoxHQ) folder for everyone to be able to watch as much as they want while they are reviewing for the unit test.

Some examples:

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=9scfPqi

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=lulrNCq

ShowMe.. Ancient Civilizations in Global Studies

High School teacher Justin Suran, who also facilitates the high school faculty's work workgroup in integrated technology, recently had his students in the 9th grade use the app "ShowMe" on their iPads.  He reports:

App: ShowMe

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/showme-interactive-whiteboard/id445066279?mt=8

San Domenico freshmen created presentations about ancient Mesopotamia on topics ranging from sailboats and the invention of the wheel to astronomy and architecture.  Students recorded their presentations using an app that allows them to record their voices, import images, and write with a finger or stylus on a digital whiteboard.  Students demonstrated, for example, how ancient irrigation worked and how cuneiform evolved from basic pictures to a sophisticated writing system.  

The following are some examples of the whiteboard presentations created by my 9th grade Global Studies students using the ShowMe app.  Students created these two-minute videos on different aspects of ancient Mesopotamian civilization:

Architecture

Sasha Nakae

http://www.showme.com/sh/?i=40034

Cuneiform Writing

Erin Wiens St. John

http://www.showme.com/sh/?i=38914

Irrigation Systems

Bailey Ferguson

http://www.showme.com/sh/?i=40857

Babylonian Astronomy

Coco Jiang

http://www.showme.com/sh/?i=40575

The Wheel

Annabelle Kronik

http://www.showme.com/sh/?i=41834