Sizing Up the Best White Board Apps

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Sizing Up the Best White Board Apps

• Kim Boyd and Kay Cole
• FBISD Digital Learning Department

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Objectives

• Investigate the various features of seven white
  board apps.
• Practice using each app.
• Explore content connections.

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Doodle Buddy

• App Icon
• Free - Apple and Android
• Draw, paint, stamps, stencils, text, and
  backgrounds
• Upload photos or diagrams for annotating
• Shared through email or save to Camera Roll

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Doodle Buddy

• Advantages
• Easy to use
• Kids like it
• Visuals
• Can turn off sounds
• Disadvantages
• Ads and in app purchases
• Only one page
• No record feature
• Lots of distractors
• Sometimes images load upside down
• Content Connections
• Counting
• Math Problems
• Water or Rock Cycle Diagram
• Patterns

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Screen Chomp

• App Icon
• Free - Apple
• Draw and write
• Upload pictures from camera roll or Dropbox for
  annotating
• Record voice and action on the screen
• Saves as URL that can be shared by email or
  copying and pasting

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Screen Chomp

• Advantages
• Easy to use
• Records
• Very simple interphase
• URL easy to share on teacher website or Edmodo
• Disadvantages
• Not a lot of bells and whistles
• Unable to add text
• Only one page, but can scroll up and down
• Cannot save without recording
• Content Connections
• Math Problems
• Drawing in places on a map
• Science diagrams and processes
• Annotate sentences and paragraphs

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ShowMe

• App Icon
• Free - Apple
• Draw and write
• Upload pictures or diagrams from camera roll or
  Internet for annotating
• Record voice and action on the screen
• Share via URL or email

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ShowMe

• Advantages
• Easy to use
• Records
• Multiple pages
• Explore previously created ShowMes
• Disadvantages
• Must create an account to share (Teachers can
  create accounts for students)
• Some options for paid accounts only limited
  searches for web photos and private vs. public
• Cannot finalize and share without recording
• Content Connections
• Timeline of events
• Types of angles
• Parts of an organ or organ system
• Art from various artists label, describe, etc.

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Educreations

• App Icon
• Free - Apple
• Draw, write, and type
• Upload pictures (Clip Art) and diagrams from
  camera roll, Dropbox, or Google Drive for
  annotating
• Record voice and action on the screen
• Multiple pages and backgrounds
• Share link via email, URL, or post to their site
  if logged in
• Swipe with 2 fingers to scroll for more space

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Educreations

• Advantages
• Records
• Search for pictures (clip art) within app
• Multiple Pages
• Disadvantages
• Must create an account to share (Teachers can
  create accounts for students)
• Can only have one draft at a time
• Limited storage space unless upgrade to paid
  version
• Content Connections
• Graphing equations
• Newtons Laws
• Compare and Contrast Branches of Government
• Story Map

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Skitch

• App Icon
• Free - Apple and Android
• Draw, write, type
• Upload pictures, PDFs, Maps, or Web Pages
• Annotate, spotlight, or blur out
• Share via email or save to camera roll

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Skitch

• Advantages
• Do not have to create an account
• Syncs with Evernote
• Multiple ways to share and save
• Disadvantages
• Unable to record
• Only one page
• Once in a note, cannot add additional photos,
  maps, PDFs, etc.
• Content Connections
• Evaluate a website
• Trace the path of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Annotate a primary source document
• Create a postcard or poster

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Explain Everything

• App Icon
• 2.99 - Apple
• Draw, write, add shapes, and laser pointer
• Annotate, Animate, Narrate, Import, and Export
• Import almost anything from anywhere
• Export MP4 movies
• No account necessary

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Explain Everything

• Advantages
• Multiple pages or slides
• Records audio and action on the screen
• Multiple options for sharing, exporting, and
  importing
• Merge two or more projects together
• Too many to list all of them
• Disadvantages
• Cost
• Advanced functions
• Content Connections
• A Trip through the Digestive System
• Create videos that can be used for flipping or
  importing into other apps
• Real world examples of angles, lines, symmetry,
  etc.
• Create multimedia presentations

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Baiboard

• App Icon
• Free - Apple, Android coming soon
• Online Collaborative Whiteboard
• No account necessary
• Real-time interaction
• Draw or write
• Import Maps, PDFs, and Images

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Baiboard

• Advantages
• Do not have to create an account
• Real-Time Collaboration
• Multiple Pages
• Can save and share boards
• Disadvantages
• Users can delete items posted on the board
• Pages easily get too crowded
• Posts are anonymous
• Content Connections
• Collaborative Graphic Organizer
• Cause and Effect
• Brainstorming
• Analyzing photos

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Contact Info

• Kim Boyd
• Digital Learning Specialist
• Fort Bend ISD
• kimberly.boyd_at_fortbendisd.com
• Kay Cole
• Digital Learning Specialist
• Fort Bend ISD
• kay.cole_at_fortbendisd.com