Memiarising Classrooms
Memiary has been getting some great traction in the teaching community lately. Mark Warner, a primary school teacher from the UK, has been using it extensively with children he teaches to record things they learn everyday, and recently made a fantastic presentation about his use for the Teachmeet Sussex conference. The presentation was so well received that it got on SlideShare’s most tweeted list and has noticeably brought Memiary onto the radars of many teachers all around. You can read Mark’s blog post here.
As the creator of a utility, this is way way way beyond what you could hope for. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined the service being put to such use, let alone a teacher making a 12-slide presentation for a conference to show other teachers how to use it with their own respective classes.
The iPhone app has sold thousands of copies so far, the website has tens of thousands of users of which thousands still use it daily — even a year after launching — and yet I’ll openly admit the biggest reward for me so far has been hearing that primary school children are using it to better their outlook at education. Now that’s something.
It’s easy to get a few users and sell a few apps, but reaching that golden demographic? It’s a challenge even to attempt, which is why I am so glad that it has reached the most fantastic userbase, and one who believe in helping turn good ideas into good utilities.
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