i-Sho is a great place to put all your digital photos and documents so you can store them safely and find them again easily.
Everything is arranged in a timeline so it doesn't get lost. You can even scan in old photos and documents to build a scrapbook and share it with family and friends. If you go to an event like a wedding then set up a channel and when the guests go home they can put in their digital photographs and videos and see everyone else’s. Everyone can add to it if you give them access. Not just photos and videos but you can scan in things like the order of service or invitations and add notes about who’s who and who did what. i-Sho automatically tags files with time and date and allows you to add more details so that you can easily find files in your own store or search everyone else’s channels on the hub. If you go to a wedding or a football match or a concert you can search for others who were there too.
Build a family history archive to which everyone can contribute, go back in time and see pictures and documents from your grandparents and great grandparents.
Watch parallel channels and see how your friends and family have fun. Use it to keep a central family photo diary.
....What you can do and how you do it. is up to you!
For the most innovative schools and teachers in the country i-Sho could prove to be the most ground breaking step ever taken in your e-learning strategy. i-Sho provides a highly secure educational knowledge management tool and resource delivery platform to help teachers, students and parents share in the day to day classroom activities. The software can really bring the classroom into the home in a highly compelling way that no websites, file sharing systems, social networks or 'Learning Platforms' currently can.
Case Study
Miss W is a year three primary school teacher, she has 27 children in her class and she is a keen user of the Interactive Whiteboard. Like most teachers she has a wealth of digital resources that she uses to help educate and inspire her students. She has her own laptop which she uses to store her files on as well as the networked PC in the classroom. She has recently installed i-Sho herself and in less than an hour had set it up. Miss W created an i-Sho channel called 'The Year 3 Class DayBook' and she now uses the channel to store and organise all the resources she uses throughout the day in class. She takes pictures with the digital camera of the students artwork, she drags whiteboard screenshots (as she draws them) she copies website pictures and other resources and she links the channel to a single folder so she can carry on storing things in the way she is used to. All of this happens on the fly as she teaches her time overhead has not been added to.
Parents of the year three students have heard about the diary from their children and have downloaded the program onto their computers at home. Miss W has given them secure permission to view the classroom diary. Now, when the students get home and their parents are guiding them with their homework, they use the class diary to show their parents exactly what they were learning in class that day. And... that spelling list that used to get lost, or the photos from the museum outing, can be viewed safely and securely whenever they want. What is more Year Three take pride in showing their parents what they did in class that day, especially when its their picture that is chosen to be displayed.
Miss W also finds it very helpful for recapping what the children have been learning during the course of the week. So does the supply teacher who can very quickly get a snapshot of what the class has been doing recently.
Now the headmaster has seen it work he is encouraging all the teachers to keep a Class Daybook, this way he can always get a realtime snapshot of whats happening in his school. He is also happy that some of the students work is being backed up and can be archived for the future.
Miss W has had a great response from the parents who now feel that they have a real connection or 'window' into their childs day to day learning environment.
Here is an example of the Year Three Diary, showing pictures painted by the children, daily notes of activities and documents for classwork.
The Benefits For Teachers, Schools, Education Authorities, Parents and Pupils
A Channel can be a great way of communicating between the members of a club. An amateur football team will have a fixtures list which the players and fans need to be able to find. The directions to the ground can be shown or a link put in to a map website and for each match the team selection has to be published. Spectators who take photos can share them by putting them in the channel. Results and a league table can be kept up-dated and any news and photos of social events put in too. Other teams can do the same with their own channels and then different ones can be viewed together or amalgamated into a complete league channel. The important thing is that it takes no special skill or training to do this. Everyone can do it. You simply put the photos or documents into the channel and then drag and drop them from one to another; everything will be automatically arranged in the timeline.
The team’s channel can be set up in various ways. It can be managed by one person and others given access just to view it or at the other extreme it can be totally open and everyone involved can have equal rights to add or delete things. Realistically you might have an open channel for the core members of the club and a more controlled one for others to view. There’s no restriction to how many channels you can have.
Business users have different demands to that of consumers when it comes to software. Whilst security and reliability are paramount, so too is ease of use. No one wants to spend time training staff, suppliers and customers to use software. Thats why the web works so well, its simple and most people understand how to navigate through it. But its simplicity is also a limiting factor when it comes to business applicatiions.
i-Sho is a hybrid application that uses the web to enhance some very clever desktop software. First we arrange files by time not by folders and subfolders, then we let you categorise them into channels and finally we provide the means to collaborate with the channels and set up permissions so people can see them.
The process of using i-sho means that backing up files is 'in the DNA' of the software, its not a job left to the last person to leave the office.
i-Sho means no more:
Here at i-Sho we all keep a day book channel, this is like a diary but it has text notes, pictures from mobile phones of people and places to act as reminders, documents, appointments and so on, we have now built up a valuable archive which can be used individually or used as a collaborative resource amongst colleagues.