Kia ora koutou,
I was very fortunate to be able to attend an online demonstration of the new Math Whiteboard with Dr Donald Carney from mathwhiteboard.com and Chris Betcher from Google for Education. Dr Carney took us through a very comprehensive demonstration of the new tool and ways in which it could be used in a range of different classrooms and across year levels.
Some of my highlights and hot takes:
- each whiteboard has its own unique URL
- no accounts or sign ins needed
- collaboration in real time on the same whiteboard
- a range of different ways to work on the whiteboard; drawing, text, maths drawing, etc
- high level algebraic graphs and drawings can be easily and autonomously inserted as the user is typing or drawing
- order of operation equations are colour-coded as you work through the equation. If an error is made in a row, that row's colour will change
I am really excited to see how this brilliant new tool is going to be used by teachers of Maths.
Ngā mihi
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| Dr Carney's presentation |
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| the landing page when you launch a new whiteboard |
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| demonstrating that the same whiteboard can be open by two people at the same time on different devices |
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| order of operations being demonstrated with colour-coding as each step is made |
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| the ability to drag and drop a PDF worksheet file from your desktop straight into the whiteboard |
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| making your worksheets interactive and collaborative in real time between teacher and learner |
