So couple of days ago I posted about a new Google Chat client that I have embedded on my blog.  First off, it has been great fun to interact with all sorts of people that I normally wouldn’t get the chance to chat with!  A lot of you just entered to see if worked, but never said anything.  But I did have some good conversations. 

This morning I received a chat invitation from a Philippe Dewost, a young guy from France, who was reading a popular post from from my Educational Technology blog from about a year ago: “8 Ways to use Camera Phones in Education.“  Philippe is a the guy behind, or at least a part of a cool program called Qipit that I thought might be of use to some of you out there. 

Functionality

Basically it allows users to take a pictures of notes/whiteboards/etc. and email them to a service that converts them over to PDF.  It actually works pretty good.  It takes out all the ugly from the picture and makes a pretty good copy of what ever you are seeing (but it does have to be large). 

Cons

• Multiple pages is somewhat hard.  You can do it by attaching multiple pictures to an e-mail, but that is difficult on a phone.  From what I can see there is no way to edit it once it has been sent and combine pictures together.
• 100 page limit… okay, this really probably isn’t an issue for most people, but there is a limit.
• Still new… there might be others…

Church Uses

For me the main use would be for seminary or Sunday School classes.  When I taught seminary I would often write/brainstorm on the board with the students.  I took pictures with my phone, but then I had to get them off.  This would allow me to send them to myself and even share them with those that weren’t there. 

Could be a good way to share a bit of Sunday School with someone that couldn’t make it to church…

What other uses can you think of?  There is a Facebook group devoted Qipit too…