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"...professional iPad interactive whiteboard and screencast recorder with sophisticated tools for hand-drawn graphics and remote desktop control." "You can create your own slides with the variety of tools available. More importantly, you can capture the screen shot and make notations directly on it." "Doceri is certainly a whiteboard app - and a great one. But it also allows you to control and use your pc apps remotely. So your presentation can consist of a pc app and then switch to a whiteboard display, all from your iPad." This seems like a great app for creating presentations while also controlling a smartboard and your computer from your iPad.

"I would like to share some nice websites you can easily integrate in your classrooms. The biggest advantage is that they are very visual and interactive." Websites that you can share on your electronic whiteboard in class.

"What do you think? If you train teachers to use IWB… how do you make the difference in how the board is used for learning apparent for them? What activities are truly interactive and contribute to learning in a new way while others are merely"fun" to use your fingers with?" A thoughtful article on how to use a Smart Whiteboard effectively--and interactively

An online whiteboard for collaboration. Links to Google docs. Nice video and presentation to explain how the tool is used. Developed for business, but with good educational potential.

Stoodle allows the teacher (or students) a way to create a collaborative whiteboard space. R Byrne's video shows how to use the tool. He also suggests ways students could use Stoodle for peer editing and tutoring sessions, including freehand drawing.

"Groupboard is a free online whiteboard and chat app that can be easily embedded into your website. It works on any web browser including iPhone, iPad and Android with no downloads or plugins required." Has drawing tools. Would be great for tutoring or videoconferencing. Write, draw, type, upload documents.

Scriblink is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time. Scriblink brings you the power of free hand expression with anyone, at anytime, anywhere in the world. On the homepage you'll be immediately directed to a Scriblink board, which is free and requires no registration.

Scriblink is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time. Scriblink brings you the power of free hand expression with anyone, at anytime, anywhere in the world. On the homepage you'll be immediately directed to a Scriblink board, which is free and requires no registration. Contributor: Sulany dos Santos on 05 Feb 10 Scriblink also has chat and video chat simultaneously.

Nice video explaining how you can collaborate online with a large number of people or a team. 3 free whiteboards with free subscription.

"With the advance of web 2.0 technologies, there emerged a wide range of educational tools that we can use with our students in and outside the classroom.Collaborative web tools is one example. Using such websites, teachers will be able to help in holding online and real-time discussions with their students, help them in their projects and assignments, guide their learning, do backchanneling, and synchronously moderate discussion threads and many more." The focus here is on tools for collaboration. Many are new and interesting, such as virtual whiteboards, searchteam to do online searches together, browse websites together, create online projects collaboratively, create your own chatroom, etc.. Some of these will be gone quickly, but they all appear quite useful. About 30 in the list.

"Create and share great video lessons with your iPad or browser." This is a great tool for getting students talking, or for creating a lively presentation. You can upload a picture, or draw from scratch, as on a blackboard or whiteboard. Easy to use, free download, and available from the App Store for smart phone or iPad.

This teacher uses modeling with the whiteboard so that students can get right to work on their digital task -- even if it's similar to something they have done before.

A demonstration with whiteboard of a teacher using gestures and intonation to elicit responses from students. How we talk and move effects our class.

A nice example of how to do a Think-Pair-Share in a math context. Students first work individually, then pair up to compare and talk about their answers, and then share within their groups of about 5. Talking about concepts helps students process and learn the concept. The teacher circulates, listening in. Groups report back to the whole class by holding up a small whiteboard/paper with the answer, so that teacher can quickly see how each group (mixed levels of expertise) has done it. She selects one or two groups to explain the answer and how they arrived at it.

another list, but some are new to me, so if you have time, go explore. Some are whiteboards, like Dabbleboard, or brainstorming tools and mind-mapping tools (Thinkature), project management, Stixy for post-its, an online meeting "playground," called Twiddla, and some old favs, like Wetpaint, G-Docs, and Skype. a jumble, but of interest because most have an online collaboration element. Very brief descriptions of each, but little on pedagogy.

"GoClass is a learning platform.... Using common mobile devices and an Internet connection, the platform helps you improve student engagement, classroom management ... With lesson plan review, student notes and media annotation, their classroom experience goes home with them." This app seems to have multiple functions, such as sending students follow-up notes and quick polls/quizzes, sharing whiteboards, etc. This will require some exploration. Available for both Apple and Google platforms.

"Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!" You enter data once and student can choose from 5 different types of games to play. Many templates and files already created by other teachers are accessible here. Premium membership is ad-free, and you have your own Web area to organize your favorite resources; can also be used on an interactive whiteboard.

Guess the most common words in English. Nice little activity that might work with groups or a class Interactive Whiteboard. Also shows you the order of frequency. Based on Oxford English Dictionary. Rec. by Russell Stannard.

Creates a link that will allow anyone else to share your desktop/browser/application. No voice (use Skyp), but has a chat window. Can show students how to do something realtime without resorting to a whiteboard, ppt, or video screencast.

A teacher training organisation I work for ( www.nile_elt.com )asked me to investigate which interactive whiteboard would be most suitable for them. The teachers and the trainers come from all parts of the world for various types of teacher development courses.

This is a great resource for teaching math and geometry. Slide the figure's grab points around and you will see how the sizes and math change in 2-dimensional objects. Would be great for whiteboard work.