Online whiteboard tools
Google Jamboard
Jamboard Help Center
Jamboard PD Session (from March 29th) To set up a jam, go to jamboard.google.com |
Jamboard is Google's creative collaboration space, where students can brainstorm and share ideas collaboratively. It's a great way to have students collaborate together on any topic from home. For K/1 students, create a Jamboard and change the sharing permissions to 'Anyone with the link can edit.' Click here to see examples of student activities. It's completely free, and students can add text, images, draw, paint & highlight in the space. They can even add multiple frames, too! |
Integrates with GOOGLE and especially w/Google Classroom! To assign in Google Classroom, create a Jamboard in your Google Drive, then attach it to an assignment & be sure to make a copy of it for each student, or set it to edit, so the whole class can edit at the same time. How to assign a Jamboard in Google Classroom.
WHITEBOARD.CHAT - Teach, Monitor, Coach
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Made especially for teachers and gets two thumbs up! Easily teach, observe and coach multiple student user whiteboards in real-time. Connect your students to the same board, or they can work on their own individual boards. Either way, you can easily monitor their boards and jump in to help them at any time. Model a teaching concept on your teacher board while students watch, and then let students try out on their own boards. Plus, push out a PDF to all student boards simultaneously. |
The best part is there are so many awesome tools to choose from, eg., draw, add text, PDFs and images, plus there is an immense gallery of icons from all content areas, including interactive spinners, clocks, dice, letters, grids, 3D shapes, manipulative blocks, place value blocks, incentive rewards, animals, science icons, and tons more.
NOTE! Whiteboard.chat was shared by Jen Plebani, 5th grade Teacher at Cambridge, at a workshop on 3/10/21. She has been working with this tool successfully for the past several months with her students, and has developed an expertise with using it. Reach out to Jen for her perspectives on how she uses this tool to manage her virtual classroom.
Resources: Help Desk/Tutorials | Video Tutorials
AWW Board |
MIRO BOARDGet 3 editable boards for free. Some unique features, like a countdown timer, Chat feature, Google image search, Mind maps, Tables & Charts & more. Share link in edit or view only modes.
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Whiteboard FoxCreate a board w/1 click & share it live by sending link to others. No account needed. Learn more here.
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Whiteboard.fiCreate a class and students join your board with a code. Students can get their own board to work on, and can see the teacher's board for modeling, too. Enable a waiting room and lock your class after class has started.
Learn more here. |
EXPLAIN EVERYTHINGDigital whiteboard and video screen recorder/editor all in one!
Record your whiteboard — and voice — as you draw, then edit or split elements to refine the finished video. Perfect for flipping your classroom!
Educators get 3 projects for free. Unlimited access is $24.99/yr regularly priced. Learn more about it here. Go to the Explain Everything Help Center here. |
Pair your whiteboard app with a drawing tabletUsing an external drawing tablet could make drawing & writing much easier! Watch this quick video tutorial for Wacom Board.
Easy set up, for both left and right handed use; The pen doesn't need to be charged so you can start creating immediately; 4 customizable express keys put your favorite shortcuts at your fingertips.
Works with Windows PCs, Mac OS and Chromebook. Easily write, edit, draw or share ideas to students during your daily web-conferences. |
Zoom whiteboard toolZoom has it's own built-in tool that will allow the host (and participants) to write or draw with or without the whiteboard. Did you know that you can mirror your iPhone or iPad through Zoom and use that as a whiteboard? Learn more here! Get a quick tutorial here. |
Not sure which tool to choose? Click here to view a slide presentation from a recent Whiteboard PD session. Click here to see a comparison of different whiteboard tools. You can compare what is free, various features for teaching and collaborating, links to tutorials and a few examples. |