Scriblink

Scriblink is an interactive whiteboard that you can use for free on your computer. How cool is that! My classmate asked me to participate with her as we explored the capabilities of this tool.

You have a tool bar that allows drawing a straight line, a free hand pencil, a square, a circle, typing ability, pen colors and a grid pattern that you can use to line up objects or use to draw. You can continue to click undo which is helpful for step by step corrections. If you press clear though, the entire work goes away except for an image that you may have downloaded. To get rid of an image you will need to click the X in the corner of the graphic or once it has been placed you can erase it with the eraser. You can also change the image any way you want with the tools on the toolbar. Scriblink also has voice conferencing if your computer has a microphone. We did not try this feature.

Another neat feature of this is security. You are in control of your board unless you invite someone in with an email address. My classmate emailed me an address and we were able to chat online and collaborate about our project. We were able to print, save our work and return to it later but we could not save our chat for future reference. Check out their official blog at http://scriblink.blogspot.com/ or if you want to just start creating a project go to http://www.scriblink.com/. You will definitely have fun with this.