Herd App Tutorial
The app that I decided to create a tutorial on is called Herd. This app is free. You can pay a 2 dollar a month subscription so that you can take pictures. This an app created for farmers to keep records on there livestock. With many people moving to electronic paperwork farmers are having a hard time making the transition. Many farmers are very traditional with paper records and this app helps them make that transition. With this app farmers are able to keep records on what animals they have. They can write what breed and species they have as well as what medication the herd has been given. When the animals are ready for market, there is even a section where you can write where they sold the animal and for how much.
You might be wondering how this can be used in a classroom. As an agricultural teacher I can use this is many of my classes. I would start to use this is an animal science class. I could use this as a long term project. Every day I would write up on the board a different scenario. It would be up to the student to enter in the data as if they were the farmer. This can give the student some real life perspective on how to operate a farm, at least from the record keeping aspect. The second way I can use this is in an Ag business class. They will do the same as the animal science class however I would focus more on the sales aspect. |