Show Me is a free app to annotate and record audio over a whiteboard or anything displayed on an iPad, such as a photo.
Potentially, a teacher could use it to build a slide sequence with a voice over to be played as part of a lesson activity. As a pupil, it could be used to record work by taking a photo for the background and then recording a voice-over as a commentary.
However, despite being free, I will not be recommending Show Me for Powys schools for the following reasons:
- There does not seem to be an export facility to allow a video to be saved and subsequently uploaded to Hwb (ie. j2e for primary schools). This makes it difficult to store children’s work appropriately.
- The only way to store a file (off of the original iPad) is online, on the Show Me website. Whilst this is a choice to be made by a teacher, it is not an appropriate option for pupils as the system is based in the USA and therefore outside of current UK Data Protection legislation.
At the time of writing, Explain Everything remains my preferred app of this type.
