Use Your iPad as an Interactive, Portable, Recordable Whiteboard
01/06/2014
Do you have an iPad? Unleash its power and transform it into a personal, electronic whiteboard that allows you to create, project and record dynamic presentations that combine voice, images and a time-based screen-capture of your handwritten notes or markups. This post introduces three screen-capture and presentation apps for the iPad: Educreations, Explain Everything and Doceri.
A “screen capture” app basically records what you put onto the screen (images, videos, text files); what you write on the screen (handwriting, markups, highlighting); and what you say. Project it as you teach your class, and you have a portable, interactive electronic whiteboard. Upload the recording and your students can play the presentation back, listening and watching as your markings and notations reappear. (There are similar apps for the Android tablets. Check out this review).
Screen Capture - Not Just for Math and Science.
Capturing notations on touch-screens is particularly valuable in Math and Science which involve lots of symbolic representations. The Khan Academy has popularized these dynamic presentations of equations and diagrams that appear and transform during the course of the lesson. But saving a verbal explanation along with motion-captured drawing or writing can also be quite useful in History or Language Arts classes as well.
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Examples that come to mind include showing exploration routes or migration patterns on a map, examining details in a primary source, or creating and explaining lineage charts. Screen capture of tablets can be used to demonstrate and fill-in a graphic organizer, highlight claims and evidence in a .pdf document or walk your students through outlining as they listen to a teacher-led presentation. These can all be powerful tools in the hands of Social Studies teachers to help students develop the higher-order reading and writing skills.
These programs can also be engaging and creative tools in the hands of your students. They can either simply assemble an interesting series of fixed multimedia slides with voice-over, or record a presentation involving dynamic screen markups.
These programs can also be engaging and creative tools in the hands of your students. They can either simply assemble an interesting series of fixed multimedia slides with voice-over, or record a presentation involving dynamic screen markups.
Mirror and Project iPad Screen
The three iPad apps mentioned here cover a range of sophistication from the simplest, Educreations, to the most feature-rich of the three, Doceri. Doceri has the added capacity to connect with your laptop or desktop computer (PC or Mac) to access, use and display files and programs stored there, essentially acting as a remote control of the primary computer. If that laptop or desktop computer is connected to a projector, you can then project your iPad screen -- in effect enabling your iPad to function as a full-featured, real-time interactive white board. View my video demonstration of iPad mirroring below to see this in action.
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Reviews and Tutorials
Check out these tutorials and reviews and jump into the world of screen-casting!
Educreations – Tutorial / Review: Explain Everything – Tutorial / Review: Doceri – Tutorial / Review: Right: Demonstration of mirroring Doceri for iPad to a laptop or computer. If connected to a projector, the iPad would act as a portable, recordable electronic whiteboard. Video by Devin Hess, EdTechsploration.
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