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A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly online whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world. Works on all modern browsers, no installation needed. Start drawing

A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly online whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world. Works on all modern browsers, no installation needed.

"Easily draw on maps and then share them with friends, completely for Free! Simple enough to be used by children, but powerful enough to be used by GIS professionals - Scribble Maps is the easiest way to draw and share maps with friends"

create, narrate, and share drawings. You can draw, type, and upload images for markup as well as import pics. You can also record or film yourself talking. can be embedded.

make cookies and the cookie cutters! Kids draw freehand using straight vectors lines and add curves or stretch the lines to make a desirable shape. Cookiecaster then exports the design in to a printable .stl file and adds a cookie cutter lip and edge. Yields delicious results!

free service enabling quiz creation based on any images you own or that you find online. Students answer ImageQuiz questions by clicking on a portion of your chosen picture. For example, if you use an uploaded image of a map, you can design questions that require users to click on states, cities, or countries for their responses. Creating an ImageQuiz is easy. First give your quiz a title, upload a picture, then draw outlines around the portions of the picture that feature your answers. Write your questions and try out your quiz. Share the URL.

The Wellcome Library recently made more than 100,000 drawings, photographs, paintings, and advertisements available to the world under Creative Commons licensing. The images available through the Wellcome Images library are primarily of a historic nature. You can browse the galleries or search for images by keyword.

FlipBook create an animated flipbook from your drawings

Active Textbook is an interesting service that you can use to turn your PDFs into multimedia documents. The basic idea behind the service is that you can upload PDFs and add pictures, links, and videos that are displayed when students read your PDF through the Active Textbook viewer. While reading your PDF through Active Textbook students can highlight, draw, and add comments to the document. Active Textbook could provide a good way to create your own short multimedia texts for students. The most compelling feature is the option for students to highlight and take notes on the document while they're reading it through Active Textbook. Active Textbook also adds a dictionary tool to your document which could be handy for some students. Active Textbook is free to use for up to 500 pages of material.

Wideo is a service that allows anyone to create animated videos and Common Craft-style videos online. You can create an animated video on Wideo by dragging and dropping elements into place in the Wideo editor then setting the sequence of animations. Each element can be re-used as many times as you like and the timing of the animation of each image can individually adjusted. Wideo's stock elements include text, cartoons, and drawings. You can also upload your own images to use in your videos. Wideo could be used by students to animate the highlights of a book that they've read.

Otus is a free online learning environment that designed for use on iPads and Chromebooks. One of the features of Otus is the option to create quiz questions in which students have to annotate a document or image with the drawing tools in the app. You could create a quiz question based on a document that has math problems typed on it. Your students could then write on the document to submit their answers to the problems. Click here to read more about all of the features of Otus.

Take a picture, highlight the details and comment, draw & share

Drawings made on Sketchfu

Try to draw some fireworks pictures with your graphing calculator. We've inverted parabolas and experimented with moving them left and right, making them fatter, deciding on their maximum Y value and changing our calculator's viewing window. When you figure out better pictures, please let us know and we'll add your ideas (and give you credit) to this post.