Realtime Board is a whiteboard in your browser which offers engaging features for presenting lessons to your students! Let me start by showing you an example of how I use Realtime Board in my driver education class. Using Google Maps, I show both a satellite view and street view of areas we will be using for driving lessons. The students usually recognize the area or try to guess where it is, which makes the lesson more fun and engaging for them. With Realtime Board they are seeing the real locations for our lessons! I can show them in advance the concepts to be covered by annotating live on the screen.
Google satellite image of a divided highway lesson location near our school.
Images can easily be placed on your whiteboard, and zooming can be accomplished with a mouse scroll wheel, the zoom tool, or a keyboard shortcut. All the tools in the toolbar (below) have keyboard shortcuts. You can also place pdfs, documents , and more on your board, and they can be resized as well!
Many annotation tools are available in Realtime Board including a brush/pen, eraser, shapes, text, sticky notes, comments, and object link tool. The board can be panned easily with the hand tool. You can move, scale, and rotate objects with the pointer tool.
Realtime board offers sharing, collaboration, and chat. An image library which includes icons, shapes, prototyping objects, tables, charts, and preset business canvases such as app development and business model is included. You can also upload your own images and create links to online videos, as well as take screenshots of your board and create a slideshow! And did I mention capturing web pages? Realtime Board is an incredible tool for creating quality multimedia lessons! If you are a 1:1 school or classroom, sharing/collaborating can be done in "Realtime." I am not affiliated with Realtime Board in any way, but I highly recommend that you give it a try!
