Google Jamboard – Your Digital Whiteboard

Google Jamboard – Your Digital Whiteboard

A newcomer to your Google Suite of Educator Tools is Google Jamboard which provides you with a blank screen and annotation tools. With a touch-screen Chromebook, you can now open a new “jam”, and begin drawing, instructing and demonstrating. Best of all – it saves into your Google Drive when you’re done. 

With Jamboard, you can easily bring in images, draw shapes, write, erase and illustrate. Even better – it is now built right into Google Meet. So, if you are instructing at a distance, you can open a new jam from inside Google Meet to seamlessly draw and illustrate to your students the lesson at hand.

Want to see it in action?

This instructional video might be helpful.

Explain Everything

Explain Everything

Explain Everything is an online interactive whiteboard for remote collaboration. According to their website “Teach, present, sketchnote, create videos, and work together, all in Explain Everything – the complete online and mobile whiteboard app.”

Their free service for teachers allows for:

  • Up to 3 projects
  • Use on any device
  • Collaboration with Voice Chat
  • Web Video Link Sharing

They do not collect any data from students.

AWW – A Web Whiteboard

AWW – A Web Whiteboard

AWW – A Web Whiteboard is a website that offers a touch-friendly drawing and annotation tool. Their free service includes a basic whiteboard, board sharing, and basic chat. You have the ability to download your board as a .pdf at the conclusion of your usage of theier tool.

They do have paid packages, but their free service may be a powerful tool during this covid quarantine.

As there is no need to sign in to use the service, privacy is not a concern as they are collecting no data in that regard.

Web Whiteboard

Web Whiteboard

Web Whiteboard is a free (for 21 days), online utility that allows participants in an online meeting (Google Meet, for instance) to have access to a whiteboard where collaboration can take place. Students do not sign in to the service, so it is safe for use in K-12 classes. This may be a valuable tool for online delivery of lessons.

Once the free trial period has ended, the cost to continue is $8 per month.

SeeSaw

SeeSaw

Seesaw is a fantastic tool for Div 1 and Div 2 teachers. There are a host of pre-created resources in their resource library, and the platform itself gives young learners meaningful ways to demonstrate their learning.

Seesaw’s privacy policy requires parental permission for students under age 13. They offer a sample letter for parents to acquire this permission.