25 Ideas for Whiteboard Videos
Years ago apps like ShowMe and Educreations helped to popularize creating whiteboard-style instructional videos. Today, screencasting tools like Screencastify and Google’s Chrome screencast tool along with Flipgrid’s whiteboard tool make it easy to create a whiteboard style video in your web browser. Regardless of the tool used, the basic premise is to draw on blank screen while talking at the […]
New Whiteboard Features in Microsoft Teams and New Excel Formulas
If you regularly use Microsoft Teams or any component of Office 365 and you’re not subscribed to Mike Tholfsen’s YouTube channel, you need to subscribe to it. That’s where I learn about all of the latest features available for Teams, Reading Progress, Immersive Reader, Word, OneNote, and many other Office 365 tools. Mike’s latest videos […]
Kahoot Acquired Whiteboard.fi – What Could That Mean for You?
Last spring I got quite excited about a new online whiteboard tool called Whiteboard.fi. A lot of other people did, too. This blog post that I wrote about Whiteboard.fi had more than 100,000 hits! The success of Whiteboard.fi didn’t go unnoticed by other educational technology companies as evidenced by the announcement that Kahoot has acquired […]
Whiteboard.chat – Create Online Whiteboards You Can Share and Monitor
Back in September I wrote a review of a new online whiteboard tool called Whiteboard.chat. I like it because it allows teachers to create whiteboards for their students. Teachers can then remotely monitor the whiteboards to see what their students are doing on those whiteboards. It’s great for doing things like asking students to solve […]
Whiteboard Chat – Online Whiteboards You Can Share and Monitor
Whiteboard Chat is a free service that you can use to create collaborative whiteboards to use with your students. It is possible to use Whiteboard Chat without an email address which makes it quick and easy to get started. There are two ways to use Whiteboard Chat. The first is to create one whiteboard that […]
7 New Google Meet Features for Teachers
In a move that clearly is an attempt to match the functionality of Zoom and Microsoft Teams, Google has announced some new features that will soon be coming to Google Meet for G Suite for Education users. All of the new features that were announced address the many concerns about Google Meet that teachers have […]
How to Use Unio to Deliver Lessons to Students’ Screens
Unio is a free platform for creating lessons and delivering them directly to your students’ laptop screens. It’s designed to let you project a lesson and quizzes onto your students’ screens and have them follow along with you. You can include quiz questions at various points throughout your lessons. In the video embedded below I […]
7 Tools for Hosting Online Brainstorming Sessions
After yesterday’s post about Limnu there were a couple of similar tools suggested on the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page. I also received a couple of requests for suggestions for other similar tools. Here are some of the other tools that you and your students can use to host online brainstorming sessions. Simple Surface is […]
Limnu – Create Collaborative Online Whiteboards
Limnu is a service that enables you to quickly create collaborative online whiteboards. On your Limnu boards you can draw, type, insert images, and chat with collaborators. Every whiteboard that you create on Limnu can be saved as an image to review later. Limnu’s free service allows you to edit your whiteboards for up to […]