Free Explain Everything Lesson Ideas For Your Classroom by TeachThought Staff If you use Explain Everything–or you don’t but perhaps should give it a look–there’s a free iBook of lesson ideas that you might appreciate. First things first: Explain Everything is a whiteboard and screencasting app that is a wonderful flipped classroom companion, allowing teachers and. Explain Everything is a feature-rich powerhouse. Tell your story with any kind of media From sketches, through PDFs, to videos, Explain Everything lets you turn an infinite canvas into a mixed-media playground that captivates and inspires. Engage with screencasting whiteboard videos. Among its numerous uses, Explain Everything is also ideal for tutoring. Using this digital whiteboard, you can either record learning materials and any necessary topic explanations or present them live. Explain Everything can also be a platform where you meet 1-on-1 – thanks to its collaborations features. Explain Everything for online tutors. Explain Everything is a feature-rich powerhouse. Tell your story with any kind of media From sketches, through PDFs, to videos, Explain Everything lets you turn an infinite canvas into a mixed-media playground that captivates and inspires. Engage with screencasting whiteboard videos.

The new normal involves increased use of collaboration and remote working tools such as Trello, Slack, Notion, WebEx, and Zoom. But what other tools can your teams use to collaborate remotely on complex ideas?

Perhaps these digital whiteboard apps can help.

While many of these solutions are aimed at educational professionals, they should be useful to any knowledge worker attempting to explain something and for group collaboration within teams.

The following all support iPads (most of them also support iPhones), some offer a native Mac client, and many also support additional platforms.

It is worth noting that Mac users with an M1 Mac (such as the fantastic Mac mini) should lobby app developers to request M1 Mac support. Where an iPad app is also available on the Mac App Store for Apple Silicon Macs, I’ve noted this. Expect Apple Pencil support in most of these, but do take a look at the developer’s websites to verify you get the tools you need.

InVision

iPad, iPhone, available at Mac App Store as an iOS app.

InVision is a powerful and fully featured solution custom-built to support brainstorming and digital product design. It offers numerous tools in addition to standard digital whiteboarding, including the capacity to present and mirror files on any device and collaboration.

All users can add text and upload files (including Photoshop and Sketch files), add shapes, and more. There is a presentation mode in which one person can make their point. The tool integrates with industry standard solutions including Slack, Photoshop, Sketch and Teams. It’s free for up to three users, otherwise $7.95/user/month. Enterprise plans are available.

Miro

Mac, iOS, Windows, Android, Web.

With a range powerful drawing tools, a plethora of templates, and rich integration with third-party apps via the Miro Maketplace, Miro is as useful for classic brainstorming at it should be for the creation of high-quality whiteboarding, brainstorming and presentations across an infinite canvas. You can invite collaborators using email or Slack, and chat in real time or asynchronously with collaborators from within the app (for a $10/month fee).

Miro boasts more than 10 million users and is used across some of the world’s biggest companies. Prices range from free to $16/month per user.

IPEVO Annotator

iOS, available at Mac App Store.

IPEVO Annotator is a well-featured interactive whiteboarding tool. It includes drawing, pen, shape, and stamp tools, along with useful editing tools and the capacity to let two users work together at once. It comes into its own as a tool for document presentation and real-time mark up, though there’s no test entry, which is a drag if using a mouse.

This solution is a really useful tool to develop ideas and work together on documentation. It’s also free.

Explain Everything

iPad/iOS, Android, Chromebook, Web app

As allegedly used at Apple (so why no support for M1 Macs?), Explain Everything is a powerful whiteboard solution designed for both offline and online use. It provides tools to draw, present, and animate your ideas; lets you connect and collaborate with others on almost any device in real-time and asynchronously; and lets you record sessions as shareable videos.

The tool is free for up to three projects ; paid plans start at $6.99/month.

Inko

iPad/iOS, Macs

A collaborative whiteboard that lets you work on projects with others via your Apple device, Inko is a lightweight, yet well-featured, app that’s one of the best for brainstorming, creative projects, or to add an interactive element to an online meeting. For a fee, you can collaborate remotely ($3.99/month) or over the LAN ($1.99/month), and host up to eight participants in your encrypted collaboration sessions.

Drawings are sharp and drawing is fast, thanks to the use of Metal, and there is a virtual pointer tool to help point things out.

GoodNotes

iPad, iOS, Mac.

More than a whiteboard, GoodNotes is a powerful note-taking solution that includes shareable notes and documents. It also offers handwriting recognition, which means notes written using your Apple Pencil become as searchable as anything else. You’ll also find PDF and PowerPoint annotation tools, a nested folder-based file system, and a range of additional tools designed to make GoodNotes a powerful project workbook and compatibility solution.

ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard

Available for iPad and at Mac App Store.

ShowMe is a simple and free whiteboarding solution that lets you create, record, and share whiteboard tutorials. It’s quite limited in what it can do in comparison to other apps in this collection, but does provide a simple, low-cost whiteboard to supplement a Zoom meeting or FaceTime chat. There’s also a fairly costly (for what you get) collection of in-app purchases, including ShowMe Premium ($79.99), which lets you upload more content and share items across closed study groups.

Please let me know how you fare with these solutions, and if you think I’ve missed a particularly good offering that delivers both iPad and Mac support, drop me a line.

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Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything’s flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad video display (via Airplay/cable).

Insert a web browser for live annotations and basic recordings.

Explain Everything records on-screen drawing, annotation, object movement and captures audio via the iPad microphone.

Import Photos, PDF, PPT, XLS, RTF, Pages, Numbers and Keynote from Dropbox, Evernote, Box, WebDAV, Email, iPad photo roll and the iPad camera. Export MP4 movie files, PNG image files, PDFs and share the .XPL project file with others for collaboration.

Check out our new Mac app – the Explain Everything Compressor available in the Mac App store. It will compress .XPL projects on your Mac!

For more precise writing – EE supports the Cregle iPen and the Smart Pen / A-pen active stylus.

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Explain Everything was designed for use in educational, business, and entertainment settings.

Explain Everything is currently being used by thousands of teachers and students in over 60 countries. Hundreds of videos are added each week to YouTube. Check out some amazing uses of Explain Everything on YouTube and on the Explain Everything website.

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