Free yourself from the front of the room!

There is an iPad app far superior in the effectiveness category, Splashtop whiteboard.

Whiteboard allows the teacher to connect his or her iPad to a computer through the internet. By syncing your computer to the iPad, I am now able to write on my iPad, click on my iPad, and even print from my iPad and everything that happens on my iPad will then occur on my computer as well. Imagine, you are doing notes on a projected smartboard. Instead of needing the smartboard you can simply hit the splashtop app, login and all of a sudden your iPad is now your smartboard....

BUT...you are no longer limited to the front of the room. You are free to move about your room or building (provided your building has wifi). Besides teaching, I can take notes immediately onto my computer from a meeting in or out of the building. I can print a page I forgot to the copier across the school without having to walk back and forth. I forgot a file once from my home computer, logged into my computer through splashtop and dropped the file into dropbox, thenI was able to get the file on my dropbox at school.

This is an extremely powerful app that does cost $20.00, but the uses go beyond the money. This app is so beneficial in everything I do in and out of school, that it was an obvious purchase.

There are several splashtop apps, the whiteboard addition is the app that allows you to annotate over your documents, providing a cheap alternative to the smartboard if you already have an iPad.

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