Educate: An E-Learning iPhone App with Potential
iKonstruct got in touch with me yesterday to let me know about the launch of Educate; an iPhone/iTouch app for teachers.
Here’s what they say about Educate:
Featuring inbuilt lesson planning, student tracking, teaching strategies and eLearning tools, Educate provides teachers with a holistic approach to engaging students in 21st century learning environments.
While the iApp is not yet available via the iTunes Store, you can check out their website for more information about Educate in action.
According to their website, Educate’s key features include:
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Lesson planning | Educate’s inbuilt weekly planner keeps all your planning in one place. Personalize your weekly timetable and plan for individual lessons all from a single interface |
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Effective teaching strategy implementation | Access easy to follow strategies for engaging students in your lessons. Choose from a variety of individual or collaborative activities directly aimed at improving learning outcomes. |
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Student attendance and progress monitoring | Quickly and easily track student attendance or performance in all your classes via ready made scales. Update records as you teach and export to your PC, Mac or Learning Management System |
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Collaboration with other Educate users | Use your Facebook account to connect with other Educate users to discuss pedagogical practice, suggest application features and seek support |
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Engage with eLearning | Post content to your Moodle learning space, anytime, anywhere. Also, access critical tools such as a voice recorder for anecdotal notes, a camera that allows you to tag images and a stopwatch for time-critical tasks |
This short video outlines the product’s features.
(Alternatively the video is available on YouTube here)
I think that this app has a lot of potential for educators, and I’ll be following its progress with interest. I’ll certainly review it when it becomes available.
More on instructional design tomorrow.
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May 20 2009 02:47 pm | e-learning
Virginia Yonkers on 21 May 2009 at 1:15 am #
This is a great example of the effect that portability will have on elearning as I mentioned my blog post yesterday . I was actually having trouble conceiving what an elearning app would look like and here’s a great example!
++Stop Press++ iKonstrikt ‘Educate’ Launched ++ | E-Learning Curve Blog on 26 May 2009 at 12:53 pm #
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