Please use the comment space to share your experiences with Qwiki (positive or negative). See what’s available on Qwiki for one of your courses. Students were given a list of topics that could be found on Qwiki in chart format and told to write down one thing they learned about the Roman society for each Qwiki topic.īecause of the audio aspect of the app, it is useful to encourage students to use their headphones. I used it to introduce students to various aspects of Roman life before starting the Gladiator unit in Adventures in World History (CHM4E). Qwiki, the company that offers a new, interactive way to explore a wide range of topics, announced today that its iPad application has been downloaded almost 500,000 times. Some students find the computer voice a little annoying (the voice can be turned off, and students can read the scrolling text), but for reluctant readers, it can be helpful. I like that it focuses the research into manageable clips - rather than students scrolling through (not reading) really long Wikipedia entries. I’ve used it in a few of my classes with mixed results. There are historical topics as well as current events, news, sports, and entertainment.Īfter you watch a qwiki on the iPad there is a list of recommended, related qwikis for you to watch. Qwiki takes information (I believe from wikipedia) and provides a short (2-3 minute) multi-media presentation on the topic of your choice. Its co-founders are entrepreneur Doug Imbruce and Louis Monier, founder of the AltaVista search engine.” (, October 31, 2011) Qwiki is also available on the computer at For those without an iPad of your own, you can search available Qwikis at home if you want to prepare a lesson around this.Īccording to Wikipedia, “ Qwiki is a platform that creates interactive, on-the-fly, multimedia presentations of information. I would like to help out by choosing one app per week that I’ve put on the iPads to tell you about. (Other life lessons from Angry Birds may be a future blog.)īut, back on topic. Or that people think you can only get gaming apps and Angry Birds is only applicable to studying parabolas in math. A big part of this, I think, is that people don’t feel they have the time to figure out what apps are out there that might be helpful. It seems that at this point, the iPads are being used mostly as a connection to the internet. Awards: App of the year, Reference category - Apple App Store Rewind 2011.
In December 2011, Apple rated Qwiki The iPad App of the year in their Reference category. After only 11 days, Qwiki reached 250,000 downloads and received nearly exclusively 5 star reviews on iTunes.
Our department has a set of iPads and we are investing in more. This turned out to be a highly appreciated way to discover Qwikis.
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