Sunday, January 2, 2011

Dabbleboard is AWESOME!!!

  • Free account provides anything necessary for most our purposes.  Paid subscription gets you more features, most of which I don't find necessary for educational uses.
  • Easy to use
  • Unlimited sharing
  • Sharing is easy.  Customize a URL, email it to those you want to share it with.
  • Can collaborate while editing via TokBox Video Conferencing (see upcoming post as I am also looking into TokBox)
  • Reminds me of a Whiteboard Wiki, where anyone can view, edit the whiteboard.  It also lets the user see who last edited it.
See the sample I created.  I learned how to use it, created this and played around with the sharing all in less than half an hour. I encourage you to check it out! 

http://dabbleboard.com/draw/CLinkous/SampleDabbling

If I may think aloud, I am imagining my telecollaborative project involving this along with epals, in sort of a chain-mail problem solving activity, where one student solves one part of a problem, emails what they've done to someone, who does the next step, and so on.  If I receive every iteration of the solution, it would be easy to track and even intervene if I find a mistake.  How does that sound?

3 comments:

  1. I love the using this with your tele-collaborative project, very cool!

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  2. Do you think you'll get other schools in the county on board? Or are you looking further than that?

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  3. That might be a start, but ideally, to make this more meaningful on a global perspective, I'd like my students to see that math is done the same way all over the world. I think it would have a greater impact for students to see that students in China or Egypt would solve a math problem in much the same way we do here.

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