Communications & Collaboration Conceptual Change (KAT) Lesson Preparation Collaborative Brainstorming Lesson Builder Mindmapping Note Taking Whiteboarding DescriptionExplain Everything is the most innovative online whiteboard platform. It is also a presentation app that can integrate content from many sources, enabling teachers and students to use it to create lessons, tutorials, and more for class or personal use. Users can import photos, PDF files, movies, websites, and more from iTunes, Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, and other sources to use in a presentation. The only interactive whiteboard experience that has both real-time and continuous collaboration with voice chat, and advanced recording & timeline editing that can be shared as a web video link.
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As a whiteboard, you can tap on New Project and choose a blank project screen or import from one of many sources (you must enter your username and password information for that source on the linking screen). A white screen with tool options stacked on the left side appears, and users can begin to import content, write, and record audio or video for the presentation.
Features- Mixed-media playground on an infinite canvas
- Real-time and asynchronous collaboration
- Recording, animation, and video editing
- Sharing recordings via Web Video Links
- Voice chat
Affordances- Collaborate and whiteboard together in real-time with voice chat on any device, anywhere.
- Present on an interactive canvas for immediate control over your content.
- Create videos, just-in-time messages, stories, tutorials, and explanations by capturing your interactions and voice.
- Share your projects as images, PDFs, videos, or editable projects. Share them as Web Video Links so others can stream your Explain videos.
Limitations- Free plan is limit to create up to 3 projects
- Free plan is limit to use 1 slide per project
- Free plan is limit to record up to 1 minute per slide
- Free plan is limit to Share and collaborate using up to 500MB of space
Educator UsageYou can use Explain Everything Whiteboard to present information to students in a visually engaging way that students could revisit individually when needed. Uses such as this could make it a staple in a flipped classroom. An even more exciting part of this app is helping your students learn to create, present, and share with it -- individually or on group projects. At the student level, creating with Explain Everything is probably used most effectively by students who already have mastered the basics of giving a good presentation.
Learning opportunities exist outside of presentations as well. You could give a math assessment where students solve a problem and narrate their thinking. Students could import one of their documents and annotate it, explaining their writing technique. There's a collaboration feature, which allows students and teachers to work on a presentation at the same time. This makes it possible for students to collaborate with peers in different classrooms or schools. This mode would also be handy for having a group of students use the whiteboard space to brainstorm ideas.
Web browsers (Latest Chrome, Safari, Edge), Mobile & Tablet
Other ResourcesVisit the official website for more information
Explain Everything User Guide
Visit the Explain Everything Support site to get your questions answered.