I have a XP-PEN Star G960S https://www.xp-pen.com/product/574.html drawing tablet and I love it. I use it with whiteboard app , Onenote and PowerPoint, and started using the tablet write and draw for teaching on Skype.
Can I use my ipad as a graphics tablet? I am wondering whether I can connect my ipad to my laptop and then use ipad in combination with a stylus for drawing or writing.
Hi Sam, not having an iPad I cannot comment on how well this works – I can see from a quick search that there are indeed apps that claim to do just this.
Thanks a lot Colleen. Yes, I did online research and I found that there are apps that help to do that. I thought maybe you tried this and could share your experience. Thanks for your response.
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I’d be interested to know how you get on Sam.
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Hi Colleen. This refers to our earlier conversation regarding a graphics tablet for online teaching. I am looking to buy a graphics tablet. I am looking for a tablet that is not very expensive and gives a very good user experience. Can you please suggest some? Also, can you please tell me what should be ideal drawing area, pen pressure level and accuracy. What should be the most important things I should look at when buying a tablet?
Thank you
so I cannot comment on any other brands – I have been using a tablet for years and always found Wacom to be excellent. This particular size works for me – I can hand write on white board software for example – and the pen is comfortable to use; I personally would not want any smaller or larger for what I use it for. You’ll see a lot of good reviews which should give you ideas. Like one of the reviewers I have also used Wacom Bamboo tablets very successfully – it looks like the intuos range has replaced this.
Hi Colleen. Thanks a lot for your response and sharing your experience with graphics tablets. The tablet that you are using certainly has some very good reviews. I will check out other tablets by Wacom as well and I hope to find the one that suits my requirements.
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Hi Colleen,
Thanks for this awesome list!
eduWeaver by BrainCert is the most advanced free online Whiteboard and Collaboration tool I have ever tried.
Hi Colleen. This list is very helpful. I have some concerns though. Could you please tell me whether I would need a digital pen to teach math online using any of these tools? Also, I have used basic version of Webex, which is free, but I feel that I need some tablet or digital pen to write equations. The tools built in the Webex are not convenient to write complex equations. Please tell me whether there is any whiteboard which is easy to teach math.
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Sam I certainly need my graphics tablet to be able to hand write mathematics on any of these online tools; I could not cope without one! As I have said in the post these are all online whiteboards where I can use hand writing. Note the much updated post here http://colleenyoung.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/writing-mathematics-online/ I have not used Webex but it looks to me as if I would want my graphics tablet with their whiteboard if I want to be able to hand write smoothly and quickly
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Thanks for this list! I am looking into online Maths Tutoring too, it helps me a lot.
Have a nice day!
Thank you Peter, that does look interesting, the free option is very limited though. My aim here is to let people know about all the tools that it is possible to use at minimum cost! This post is so popular, I
think I will revisit it.
Hi Colleen. Great website – I look forward to having a proper look around.
Have you come across Vyew.com? It’s an online whiteboard & meeting / collaboration site with a free subscription option. I’ve used it for online lessons (1-2-1 and group) and even to broadcast an actual lesson from within school when a couple of A level students were off sick but wanted to take part from home! You can set up various rooms and each room is persistent between sessions, which means we have also used it as an online notice board where students can leave messages or questions for the rest of the class outside of hours. Interested to know what you and others think…
One possibility would be to use JING for your screen capture, and you can audio narrate as you go. The vids can be up to 5 minutes, and depending upon whether you are using the free or paid subscription, you can save the video in either .swf or .mp4 formats. *I think the .swf files are visually crisper. http://www.techsmith.com/Jing/?gclid=CL2qpt6b_KoCFQ4q7AodMl9g5w
You could use a graphics tablet with any program, probably even Paint, for actually doing the math on screen.
another great app to use… if you have iPads is Showme http://www.showme.com/ Teachers (or students) can make whiteboard presentations and post them online. This could also be used as an absentee notes or presentation page. I am not sure if you can upload formats or just create them. If you can upload into show me, that would make notebook, scriblink, and other whiteboard tools inter-compatible.
Sweet website , I hadn’t noticed colleenyoung.wordpress.com before till my coworker told me about it.
Keep up the great work! I will be contributing more at colleenyoung.wordpress.com
Looking forward to some good times here at colleenyoung.wordpress.com
David I like the free groupboard (no regististration required) option. I successfully embedded one on a Wiki page. That could be useful for communicating with students.
Hi Colleen! Thanks for mentioning this post of yours in a comment on my April post about Online Interactive Whiteboards. You cite some good resources here. I’ve really got to go back and update my post soon – this is a topic there’s a lot of interest in, and there’s new tools coming along steadily. Thanks again!
I have a XP-PEN Star G960S https://www.xp-pen.com/product/574.html drawing tablet and I love it. I use it with whiteboard app , Onenote and PowerPoint, and started using the tablet write and draw for teaching on Skype.
Hi Colleen,
Can I use my ipad as a graphics tablet? I am wondering whether I can connect my ipad to my laptop and then use ipad in combination with a stylus for drawing or writing.
Please advise.
Hi Sam, not having an iPad I cannot comment on how well this works – I can see from a quick search that there are indeed apps that claim to do just this.
Thanks a lot Colleen. Yes, I did online research and I found that there are apps that help to do that. I thought maybe you tried this and could share your experience. Thanks for your response.
I’d be interested to know how you get on Sam.
Hi Colleen. This refers to our earlier conversation regarding a graphics tablet for online teaching. I am looking to buy a graphics tablet. I am looking for a tablet that is not very expensive and gives a very good user experience. Can you please suggest some? Also, can you please tell me what should be ideal drawing area, pen pressure level and accuracy. What should be the most important things I should look at when buying a tablet?
Thank you
I have only ever used one brand Sam and that’s Wacom – i currently have the Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch Small Graphics Tablet http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wacom-Intuos-Touch-Graphics-Tablet/dp/B00EO0R2JE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410885594&sr=8-1&keywords=wacom+intuos+pen+and+touch+small+graphics+tablet
so I cannot comment on any other brands – I have been using a tablet for years and always found Wacom to be excellent. This particular size works for me – I can hand write on white board software for example – and the pen is comfortable to use; I personally would not want any smaller or larger for what I use it for. You’ll see a lot of good reviews which should give you ideas. Like one of the reviewers I have also used Wacom Bamboo tablets very successfully – it looks like the intuos range has replaced this.
Hi Colleen. Thanks a lot for your response and sharing your experience with graphics tablets. The tablet that you are using certainly has some very good reviews. I will check out other tablets by Wacom as well and I hope to find the one that suits my requirements.
Hi Colleen,
Thanks for this awesome list!
eduWeaver by BrainCert is the most advanced free online Whiteboard and Collaboration tool I have ever tried.
Free Online Whiteboard – http://www.eduweaver.com
Virtual Classroom – https://www.braincert.com
Thank you very much Jason, this looks good – I shall experiment and add to the post.
Note for readers: there are various pricing plans for collaboration but the board seems to be free.
Hi Colleen. This list is very helpful. I have some concerns though. Could you please tell me whether I would need a digital pen to teach math online using any of these tools? Also, I have used basic version of Webex, which is free, but I feel that I need some tablet or digital pen to write equations. The tools built in the Webex are not convenient to write complex equations. Please tell me whether there is any whiteboard which is easy to teach math.
Sam I certainly need my graphics tablet to be able to hand write mathematics on any of these online tools; I could not cope without one! As I have said in the post these are all online whiteboards where I can use hand writing. Note the much updated post here http://colleenyoung.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/writing-mathematics-online/ I have not used Webex but it looks to me as if I would want my graphics tablet with their whiteboard if I want to be able to hand write smoothly and quickly
Thanks for this list! I am looking into online Maths Tutoring too, it helps me a lot.
Have a nice day!
Hello,
As a math Tutor I also had some good results with my students with tutorsbox.com.
Thank you Peter, that does look interesting, the free option is very limited though. My aim here is to let people know about all the tools that it is possible to use at minimum cost! This post is so popular, I
think I will revisit it.
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Hi Colleen. Great website – I look forward to having a proper look around.
Have you come across Vyew.com? It’s an online whiteboard & meeting / collaboration site with a free subscription option. I’ve used it for online lessons (1-2-1 and group) and even to broadcast an actual lesson from within school when a couple of A level students were off sick but wanted to take part from home! You can set up various rooms and each room is persistent between sessions, which means we have also used it as an online notice board where students can leave messages or questions for the rest of the class outside of hours. Interested to know what you and others think…
This looks interesting Andy – I’ll certainly check this out, thank you. Scribblar also has the facility to set up different rooms.
One possibility would be to use JING for your screen capture, and you can audio narrate as you go. The vids can be up to 5 minutes, and depending upon whether you are using the free or paid subscription, you can save the video in either .swf or .mp4 formats. *I think the .swf files are visually crisper.
http://www.techsmith.com/Jing/?gclid=CL2qpt6b_KoCFQ4q7AodMl9g5w
You could use a graphics tablet with any program, probably even Paint, for actually doing the math on screen.
I agree Jing is excellent.
You are quite right in that the graphics tablet works well with all these tools / programs – Paint included.
It’s good to have a variety of tools at our disposal!
another great app to use… if you have iPads is Showme
http://www.showme.com/ Teachers (or students) can make whiteboard presentations and post them online. This could also be used as an absentee notes or presentation page. I am not sure if you can upload formats or just create them. If you can upload into show me, that would make notebook, scriblink, and other whiteboard tools inter-compatible.
Thank you Mitchell – this looks good. we should add it’s a free app.
Check out twiddla.com
Thank you Michael – I see importantly that Twiddla is free for Teachers and Students. This looks well worth investigating.
(http://www.twiddla.com/Pricing.aspx – see note at the end)
Thanks for writing this, even though it has been a long while, it has been a great help
I’m glad it’s helpful Dexter. This post has remained consistently one of the most popular, it seems to be a subject of great interest.
Sweet website , I hadn’t noticed colleenyoung.wordpress.com before till my coworker told me about it.
Keep up the great work! I will be contributing more at colleenyoung.wordpress.com
Looking forward to some good times here at colleenyoung.wordpress.com
🙂
Thank you. You are most kind!
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Also check out http://www.groupboard.com for a reliable online whiteboard
David I like the free groupboard (no regististration required) option. I successfully embedded one on a Wiki page. That could be useful for communicating with students.
Hi Colleen! Thanks for mentioning this post of yours in a comment on my April post about Online Interactive Whiteboards. You cite some good resources here. I’ve really got to go back and update my post soon – this is a topic there’s a lot of interest in, and there’s new tools coming along steadily. Thanks again!
Thanks for the response Kelly.
I agree there is a lot of interest in this topic – let’s keep investigating!