Yesterday I was hearing at the annual Naace conference (an organisation responsible for promoting educational technology) about how many teachers actually get involved in creating different types of material for their class.

Our experience at Teachable is similar to the show of hands in the conference – although it was a very tech-savvy audience.  At one end is Word and Powerpoint, which almost everyone has created themselves, and at the other end is Flash and online video, which most people just watch without getting involved in creating.  In my experience it is all about time: producing our new 1 minute Flash animation for Teachable took over 2 days, whereas a good worksheet can be pulled together in a few hours.

If you have got involved in creating material on the left hand end of this spectrum then give yourself a pat on the back … and read more about contributing to Teachable.  The reality is that your material is likely to be very useful to the majority of teacher ‘consumers’ who really don’t have the time to produce this themselves.  We’ve seen some great Flash and video material, especially stuff that can be used on a mobile phone or handheld device.  But we’d love to see some more.

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