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iPad as Whiteboard

Explain Everything: ($2.99) Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything’s flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad2 video display.

ShowMe: ShowMe has a publicly accessible website where anyone can freely show and view their creations. This allows anyone to browse through recordings made by anyone, which is a good way to find interesting or useful recordings. If you want to keep a recording private, you can choose to do so.

Educreations: Educreations transforms your iPad into a recordable whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting to produce amazing video lessons that you can share online. It’s as simple as touching, tapping and talking. The  handwriting technology renders beautiful digital ink that looks even better than the real thing. You can always undo and redo any of your actions.

ScreenChomp provides 9 colors but just one pen size. You can import pictures to use as your background. Most importantly, you can record your whiteboard session for play back, and the recording will include audio. Recordings can be saved to the ScreenChomps app, and can be shared via email, Facebook, Twitter, and accessed through a URL.

ZigZag Board has the ability to select and resize things you draw (as well as move or delete them). It is similar to some of the other apps in that it has a small selection of pen colors and the ability to adjust the thickness of the pen (but no ability to pull a pic to draw on). ZigZag also allows users to have a ”meeting” with the app. Start a meeting from the iPad app and then join on a laptop, but you can only view the whiteboard session there, you cannot actually participate in it.  Zig Zag requires the user to create an account.

SyncSpace allows for a choice of 9 colors, 4 pen thicknesses, and 2 pen styles (solid or dashed), which was more than the other apps provided. Two unique features the app has are its ability to scale the screen to any size (it seems that you can shrink or expand your whiteboard indefinitely), and its synchronize capability, which allows for true collaboration. You can also export files as PDFs, post them to Facebook, Twitter, or Campfire (a collaboration app), or email a link to other iPad users. It does not work in landscape (horizontal) mode, making it a little less ideal for projecting.

The Free version of Jot has a pretty nice set of functionality including: 4 colors and 4 pen sizes, the ability to move a drawing and to add a background, and to add text. You share your drawings via email or save them as a photo. There’s a premium app available for $4.99 that provides more colors, more line widths, 5 fonts to select from, and live sharing.

Airsketch: (9.99) Turn your iPad into a wireless whiteboard! Annotate PDF documents and images live. You can now project PDF documents to a computer on the same local network, then annotate them in real time, all from your iPad. Connect your laptop to a projector to present and draw from your iPad as you walk around the room. You can also easily pass your iPad around to allow others to contribute.Note: Air Sketch is designed to work optimally with landscape documents and with a single computer connected to the same local network as your iPad.
5 drawing tools: Pencil, pen, marker, brush, and highlighter.
A fully customizable color palette (tap on the selected color to edit it).
Undo and redo.

Splashtop: ($19.99)Splashtop Whiteboard allows teachers and students to turn their iPad into an interactive whiteboard. Once connected to their computer over Wifi, they can watch Flash media with fully synchronized video and audio, control favorite applications then annotate over lesson content all from an iPad. Now interact with students at their desk or from all four corners of the classroom! May need to install additional software on classroom PC, which would need approval from IT.

Board Cam ($9.99) is not only a whiteboard app… it’s a document camera app also . With Board Cam you can user pointers, labels, or draw over the iPad 2 live video camera image, over a image stored in your device or use it as a whiteboard. All in one app!

Doceri Remote: Requires the installation of an additional $50 application in order to use it.

 

 

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