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February 13, 2015 Looking for some interactive whiteboard apps to use in your class? The titles below are among the best you can find out there. These apps will enable you to brainstorm and organize your ideas visually. They are also ideal for joint collaboration on a classroom project or for working on a shared presentation.

Free Online Interactive Whiteboard Teaching Resources for all Subject Areas.

Item # 3 stood out for me.

This article from the Educational Leadership journal is an interview with Karen Cator, former Director of the U.S. Office of Educational Technology. Cator goes into depth on the topic of personal learning environments. She says that PLEs bring in "the long tail of student experiences and interests." She also state that anytime you add a new technology, something gets amplified and something else gets reduced.

The first school that comes to mind when I read this article is about as poor and dysfunctional as the one in the article is well funded and utopic. In the last year there, not only have they not been able to get internet access and technology into the hands of all students, they have seriously discussed putting overhead projectors with plastic sheets back into rooms. The digital divide is alive and well, with the poor getting poorer. I truly believe that technology can make a huge difference in education, but how many students will be left behind waiting for it to get to them?

Cator hits home with a lot of these points for me. She speaks about how the digital and pedagogical divide amongst teachers and administration is so large. There are schools taking on the technological issues head on while others are still stuck in the old way of thinking. Before we can purchase all of this new technology, we need to get the teachers to realize what age they are living in and what is necessary to help them teach to the students in front of them.

Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Our software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web. Students can replay these lessons any time, any place, on any connected device. We're on a mission to dramatically improve student achievement by extending the reach of great teaching.

Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Educreations software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web. Students can also use Educreations to create videos.

Excellent resource for incorporating whiteboard activities already aligned on the website resource.

Explain Everything is a screencasting interactive whiteboard app.

Screencast anything and make it interactive. Students can use their devices and jump in on the lesson! Seems very engaging and interactive!

The link in the textbook is out of date, so thought I'd share the correct one. I've been using this template for a couple years and my students LOVE it. I give each group a small whiteboard and a marker to put their answers on and the built-in scoreboard makes running the game easy.

Promethean Planet has over 60,000 free teaching resources, lesson plans and worksheets. Including free interactive whiteboard resources. As we transition away from SMART Boards to Promethean ActivPanels, I've encouraged teachers in our district to sign up for a Promethean Planet account to take advantage of and share resources.

Explain Everything is a unique interactive screencasting whiteboard app being used by over 2 million students, teachers, leaders, and learners around the world. Engage and get inspired. Watch other people's explanations, videos, and projects made in Explain Everything.

EducationCity is the leading provider of e-learning resources for schools and families in the UK. Interactive whiteboard resources are supported by fun and engaging online games, offering comprehensive, curriculum-based educational activities for use both in school and at home.

The website for my favorite screen casting app. Easy to use with pupils and great opportunities to use is across the curriculum. The website has lots of support and videos my 5th graders used to learn how to use the app.