calebl

I am interested in helping science teachers in the lab work they do in class. After talking to a few teachers, they said they normally spend one lab session having the students record the data from their experiments and the next session entering that data into excel in order to plot the results. So half of their classroom lab time is spent entering data. Is this normal for science teachers in high school who do lab work? It seemed to me like there should be a better way for teachers to collect and visualize the data. We have a product that we built for scientists to collect, visualize and collaborate over data that we plan to offer for free to high school teachers for their classrooms. It would allow students to see trends emerging as they enter data instead of having to wait until the next lab session. Is this something that would be useful in the classroom?

When my friend went to Africa for his Master's project, he was able to collect all his data on an iPad using an app. The app wasn't actually designed to be used by scientists though (I think it was for cataloguing DVD. ha). Does anyone have any experience with apps or software tools that could be used by teams to collect and collaborate over their data?