![]() ![]() This setup is actually better than an IWB in several ways. The first four of these were shared as a series of tutorials (Tim calls them “quickcasts”) explaining how to use the iPad application Air Display ($10) and the Mac application Ink2Go ($20) to turn any iPad into a functional IWB. In the last two weeks, Tim Tyson has recorded and published (both to his blog and his YouTube channel) eight screencasts totaling 52 minutes and 37 seconds. Photo © 2010 Wesley Fryer | more info (via: Wylio) I’m hoping the ideas I share in this post will convince you to put those precious dollars toward iPads for students and teachers INSTEAD of an expensive device (an IWB) that will stay mounted at the front of a classroom gathering dust. ![]() If you still have IWBs in your school technology plan, put your planning on hold. In this post, I’ll highlight some of the applications which can do this for Apple’s iPad, based on a phenomenal set of tutorial videos (over 52 minutes worth) shared recently by Tim Tyson. What is a POOR deal for students as well as teachers, in many of our schools today, is a capital outlay of $3500 for an interactive white board (IWB) when those same dollars could purchase a projector or large format television AND individual mobile learning devices for teachers and students in the same class.* My experiments this evening with the Air Display ($10) application for iPad confirm what I’ve suspected for some time: Inexpensive mobile applications (relative to the cost of an IWB) can transform these devices INTO functional IWBs with many more benefits as well as capabilities. Please do not misunderstand me: It definitely IS a big deal for a teacher and his/her students to have access to an LCD projector connected to a computer in the classroom if previously, the “normal” technology in the room was an overhead projector. You can easily go back and forth between the created pages.Īllow you to annotate on extended or mirrored monitors.School leaders around the United States continue to spend HUGE amounts of money on interactive whiteboards for classrooms, despite the fact that these devices universally FAIL to empower students to become more independent, self-directed and engaged learners in the way mobile learning devices (like laptops, tablets or other personal digital learning tools) can. ![]() Let you create a new page to annotate without destroying the current annotations. Helpful when you want to quickly show your idea on a clean page. ![]() Toggle between your desktop screen and a whiteboard/blackboard with just a single-click. For a video presentation, showing your webcam view might help you connect better with your audience. Toggle the webcam view on/off for recording. Let you define a region of interest on the screen and only record within that region.Īllow pause and resume during a recording session. Video formats: WMV (for Windows) and MOV (for Mac OS X). Record High-Quality video of entire desktop together with your annotation as a video. Image formats: PNG, JPEG, Bitmap or GIF (for Windows), and PNG (for Mac OS X). Save the current desktop with your annotations as an image. Let you write, draw or highlight on any content being shown on the desktop from any app, be it a webpage, a slideshow, a running video or even presentation mode of Keynote and Powerpoint. It is a useful tool for presenters to communicate and share ideas during a live session, for educators to create effective video tutorials and for salespeople to create impressive video presentations. You can then save your annotations as an image file or even record the whole session as a video for sharing. You can easily write on top of any other application that is currently active on the desktop, even on a running video. Ink2Go is an extremely simple yet powerful screen annotation and recording software. ![]()
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