Whiteboard app or extension

[Shaw ELiz]

Hi everyone 

Just wondering if you know of free interactive whiteboard apps to use in Google Classroom.

 

Many thanks 

Liz 

[istone]

Hi Liz,

What do you want to use the whiteboard for? Yourself, student collaboration, individual student work.. different products for different purposes:

If for yourself to write on then I recommend jamboard - it is a google product https://jamboard.google.com/

Jamboard is also good for collaborative work - students can all write on the one jamboard, or they could have a page each (so if they all have google accounts you share the jamboard with them). Also works well in breakouts - one jamboard per breakout.

(Although I use Google Classroom I use microsoft onenote as my whiteboard - I prefer it to jamboard. However this is just for me to write on and only because I have office downloaded on my laptop so its all offline - not sure you could do that unless you had office.)

If you are teaching a class and want to check for individual work then I recommend https://whiteboard.fi/ . This gives every student their own individual whiteboard. You create the "class", then share the link of the class on your google meet chat. As each student opens up their own whiteboard you can view it. You can ask questions and get instant replies from them - great for interaction, checking for understanding and looking for misconceptions. Works really well for Maths and CS. What I really like is that students can't see each others work so it really allows you to see what they are "thinking". You don't need any log in either, you can delete whiteboards and save them all as a PDF.

I mix up the week using different tools - probably use the whiteboards most days and then maybe once a week use the jamboards in breakouts.

Hope that helps, 

Good luck!

Irene

[Joe Dale]

Hi Liz,

Have a look at Google Jamboard for starters. In addition to this, there is whiteboard.fi, whiteboard.chat, excalidraw and miro.

Best wishes

Joe

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On 2 Mar 2021, at 07:05, Shaw ELiz <elizabet...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Mr Chaney]

What device, and how you're using it, are vital clarifications needed.

As mentioned, Jamboard is useful. Openboard is good for writing over the screen, and also recording casts.

OneNote is useful too.

Kami is great for providing annotated feedback to students' PDFs handed in.

Give us more info, and we'll give more specific, tailored answers.
If recording screencasts, most providers e.g. screencast-o-matic, have the facility to have a whiteboard.

Regards

Robert Chaney

Pres KK