dabbleboard-+Chip

== Dabbleboard by Chip Boling   ﻿  == __ Overview: __ When I first choose dabbleboard it reminded me of the Interwrite Schoolpad I use in my classroom. The schoolpad is simply a pad that when written on projects through a LCD projector onto the screen. Dabbleboard follows the same path as a school pad or a whiteboard that you may have seen in a classroom. In this presentation, I will discuss how dabbleboard works, show an example of it in use, and how it can be used in a mathematics classroom. __ How it works: __ Dabbleboard is an online whiteboard that allows you to collaborate with one another. This is a feature that a standard whiteboard does not have. Dabbleboard allows you to visualize your ideas, draw quickly, and then share those ideas with others.   In the diagram above, I have described what some of the tools and options are in the drawing area. On the top tool bar, you can simply select a text color and draw different lines to share and chat. On the left hand side of the screen is your image tray. Here there are a number of images from which you can select. When you want to use an image, simply click and drag onto the canvas. If you want to type text, you simply click on the canvas and type. If you want to draw a line, click and drag, and a line will appear in the canvas. There are many ways you can save a dabbleboard project. If you click the save button at the top of the screen, your image is saved online. Once it is saved online you have three options. Notice on the right hand side of the screen is a toolbox labeled share and chat. You can copy the link and paste it into the Internet browser, you can email a link, or you can embed the image. Once you choose any of these options, the next person can modify and resend the image. This allows for collaboration because everyone is modifying the document.

__** Dabbleboard in Action: **__ ** I have created a link in which you can see a dabbleboard question. Click the link and answer the question. Once you have answered the question, you will need to save it by clicking the save button and then you can attach the link to the discussion board. Not only will you be able to solve the problem, it will allow you to play with the dabbleboard. **

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** Above is a sample of the question. ** ** Here is an example of a student making what they believe is the correction (This is the wrong correction). ** __**How Dabbleborad can be used:**__ **Dabbleboard has a number of purposes in the mathematics classroom. First, it could be used for any type of mathematics even though it has a number of limited features involving the equation editor in this program. I was able to get around this problem by simply using the equation editor in word and pasting the symbols I would need in Dabbleboard.** **What I like about the program is the fact I can actually have the students do live homework problems or class work problems. I believe this would be a great tool for use with proofs in geometry. A proof can be presented and students can add lines to the proofs, communicate with each other, and make changes. The advantage is we all get to observe the changes and learn from them.** **The program provides another set of images which would also be helpful in geometry. Students could create charts to organize the theorems, postulates, and mathematical properties and then post these images on the web for others to modify and add to them.**