6 Free Online Collaborative Interactive White Boards – 2012 Update

The original April 2010 article, “6 Free Online Interactive White Boards” and the more recent “Using The iPad As A Digital Whiteboard (Plus 4 Cool Free Apps To Try It Out)” have been consistent top 10 pages for viewership here on EmergingEdTech since they were published. Between them, they’ve had over 55,000 views to date. There is obviously a good deal of interest in free Interactive White Board apps. I spent some time with each of the remaining functional tools from the April Post. Here is a brief review of these four newly listed free online IWBs, followed by some updated information on three applications from the original article that are still available online today: Twiddla ( Inviting others to collaborate on Twiddla was quick and easy – just hit the green GO button to start a session and use the Invite option (towards the upper right hand corner of the screen). These are three apps from the original review that are still available online: About Kelly Walsh

Soo Meta - A Nice, New Way to Create Multimedia Presentations Soo Meta is a new digital presentation tool from the same people that developed the YouTube remixing tool Dragon Tape . Soo Meta allows you to combine videos from YouTube, pictures from the web or from your desktop, text, and voice recordings to create a presentation. You can also pull content in from Pinterest and Twitter to use in your final product. The Soo Meta editor is fairly easy to use. Create a free account to get started then open your browser to SooMeta.com/create/ and title your first project. Applications for Education There are quite a few possible uses of Soo Meta in the classroom.

Seven Free Online Whiteboard Tools for Teachers and Students This afternoon through the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page I received a request for some free whiteboard apps. All of the following seven tools can be used to draw and type on a whiteboard in your browser. With the exception of PixiClip all of these tools can be used collaboratively for brainstorming sessions. While PixiClip doesn't allow for collaboration it does have a voice-over capability. Sketchlot is a free collaborative whiteboard service that works on any device that has a web browser. Aww App is a simple browser-based application for creating drawings. PixiClip is a great new tool tool for creating, narrating, and sharing drawings. Stoodle is an online whiteboard service supported in part by the CK-12 Foundation. Draw It Live is a nice little website that offers a free space for you to instantly create a collaborative whiteboard to use with anyone you like. Realtime Board is a nice tool for hosting online, collaborative brainstorming sessions.

CoSketch.com - Online Whiteboard Collaboration 5 Big Prezi Updates If you’ve ever wanted to spice up your presentation with a free web 2.0 tool, you’re in luck. Presentation tool Prezi has just unveiled some new information that may cause you to start thinking about trying it out. Prezi, a free interactive presentation creation tool, has just added a couple new features that will be really fun for teachers to try out when they head back to class. Prezi also announced some other fun news that’s worth knowing about. It’s all wrapped up in nice, easy-to-digest bits below: 1) 3-D Prezis Time to make your presentations pop like the world of Na’vi in Avatar. 2) Fade-In Animations Here’s a nifty feature that Prezi has been lacking for quite awhile. 3) Screen Blackout Want to keep your audience focused on you and not your Prezi? 4) Get Professional Prezis Short on time but long on ideas? 5) Prezi Wants College Ambassadors

3 Powerful Web Tools to Create Whiteboard Animation Videos for Your Class October 23, 2014 Whiteboard animation videos are videos that draw themselves. They involve an animated use of images, shapes, characters, sounds and voice-overs to create a clip. This form of video production has been very popular recently and is widely used by some leading educational YouTube channels such as TED Ed and RSA Animate. Creating a whiteboard animation video is no longer a graphic designer's job. There are actually several web tools that allow you to easily put together an animated video with as simple tools as drag and drop. 1- GoAnimate Go Animate allows you to produce your own professional whiteboard animation-style video using your mouse and your favorite internet browser on GoAnimate! Watch this video to learn more about GoAnimate 2- Video Scribe VideoScribe empowers you to create your own whiteboard-style animated videos without any design or technical know-how. Watch this video to see how Video Scribe works