I teach in a room with 32 computers arranged in 3 island rows. So my interactive whiteboard is 4' above the ground so the pupils at the back of the class can see therefore the top is an un-useable 8' away from the ground. Even Max in my tutor group (6' 8") [Edit Max tells me he is now 6'8" and a half] might find it a tad difficult to reach.
Solution?
Ditch the IWB and use my iPad to interact with the screen.
The two apps I use are;
The Real VNC
Allows the board to be controlled from any part of the room by me or the students. I can ask them to write text onto presentations or complete tasks without thinking about their height to reach my board.
Air Sketch
This is a great app which display what ever you do on the iPad on the projector using Firefox. It just uses HTML5. Annotate PDF's, images, screen shots of the iPad. It's a good bit of kit!
So with these two apps (£10) I can do all that my IWB (£800). So is this the end?
It seems like that we are going to use iPad as a major part in our educational life. Books, whiteboards, school apps and all of these stuff makes our life so simple.
ReplyDeleteI am not able to locate an app called "The Real VNC". Is this an app from the app store? I would like to check this option out.
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Any of the numerous VNC apps do the job. Try them out and find the one that best suits yourself. I recommend trying Splashtop Whiteboard!
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