The Best 4 Whiteboard Apps for Teachers

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. You can also use them record and share tutorials or to add  interactivity to your lessons and make them lively.

1- Doceri
�Combining screencasting, desktop control, and an interactive whiteboard in one app, you�ll never have to turn your back to the class or audience again. Create a lesson or presentation, insert images, save and edit your project and record a screencast video you can easily save or share. Doceri does it all! Control your lesson or presentation live with Airplay or through your Mac or PC. Annotate a Keynote or PowerPoint, or present your original Doceri project. Great for student projects, too.�

Watch this video tutorial by SP Controls to learn more about this app.

2- ShowMe
ShowMe enables you to turn your iPad into a personal interactive whiteboard. You can use it to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. Some of its features include:

• Voice-record
•  Multiple brush colors
•  Enter text
•  Pause and erase
•  Import pictures from your photo library, built-in camera, or web image search
•  Import documents as pictures from dropbox, or google drive
•  Create video from any document
•  Unlimited lesson length
•  Free to upload and share your recordings with friends
•  Easy embedding for sharing anywhere
• Manage students with Groups

Watch this video tutorial by iPadagogy to learn more about this app.

3- Explain Everything
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. Rotate, move, scale, copy, paste, clone, and lock any object added to the stage.

Watch this video tutorial by Learning Technology at Ohio State to learn more about this app.

4- Educreations
Educreations is a unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool that's simple, powerful, and fun to use. Annotate, animate, and narrate nearly any type of content as you explain any concept. Teachers can create short instructional videos and share them instantly with students, or ask students to show what they know and help friends learn something new.

Watch this video tutorial by ISD544 to learn more about this app.

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A Wonderful Interactive Whiteboard App Is Now Free Grab It

November 10, 2014
The poplar Stage Pro is now available for free download in the iTunes stores here in Canada and the States (not sure if this deal applies to other parts of the world) . This deal is limited for a short period of time so I am hoping that you download it before it's over.

Stage Pro is a wonderful educational app that combines the functions of both interactive whiteboard and document camera. You can use it to "share ideas and interact with curriculum. Use the iPad camera to display live video of objects, textbooks, student work, and other projects, and sketch, write, label, or laser point in real-time. With options like storing labels, recording, PDF import, and wireless connection to a projector via Airplay, Stage makes lessons fully interactive, collaborative, and engaging."

Here are some of the prominent features Stage Pro offers to its users:

Video Recording 
Easily capture and save lessons using the Stage App. Record audio and video, Pause, Resume, and Save. Video files are automatically saved to your camera roll for simple sharing via email or uploading to YouTube or other collaborative sites of your choice. Import Stage recordings into iMovie from your photo library.

Multiple Canvases
Create multi-page presentations and toggle between canvases with the Stage Multiple Canvas Feature. Add, delete, and insert new canvas pages with ease for a presentation-friendly format.

Academic Backgrounds Bundle
Royalty-free backgrounds include graph paper, Graph XY axes, Music Staff, Ruled, World Map, USA States, European Countries, African Countries, Asian Countries, Australia, North America, and South America. Create, present, and share your Stage creations efficiently with these stock backgrounds.

I learned about this deal from Techchef4U.

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