Scribblar is a great addition to the range of online whiteboards that are now available. Online whiteboards allow a student and teacher to simultaneously work together on the same surface and it means that each can see what the other is doing.
I would embed a video here to explain how Scribblar works, but amazingly there isn’t one! So I’ve included a screenshot of my Scribblar whiteboard and you can access it using the button at the bottom of this post.
Scribblar is very similar to Dabbleboard, because it is browser-based (no download / installation needed) and independent of any other program (such as Skype). There is also no need for an account – you are given your own room automatically when you start.
I don’t want to repeat a previous blog post, as you can see more about using online whiteboards for language teaching on this blog, where I have compared Dabbleboard and Whiteboard Meeting. Suffice to say that Scribblar has the following differences with respect to Dabbleboard…
- Dabbleboard allows you to use a URL to upload an image, whereas with Scribblar you need to save it to your harddrive and then upload.
- Scribblar is more intuitive with moving images or objects around. This is difficult to describe, so I suggest you play around with both and you’ll see what I mean.
- Scribblar allows you to embed the room in your blog, but as far as I can see this is just a hyperlink to your particular whiteboard (see button below) and I guess you can do this with Dabbleboard because Dabbleboard also gives you a specific URL to your whiteboard.
I am sure that some of our teachers and students will start to use this one along with Dabbleboard, so it will be interesting to see which is preferred over the next few months.
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