Imagine if Pear Deck, Nearpod, and Socrative had a mobile whiteboard, ipad mirroring and remote access to your computer. Sounds too good to be true, except it is! Meet Annotate. I have been using it the past year and could not live without it. Let them explain what it does:
I find the mobile whiteboard, ipad mirroring and remote access to be game changers for the classroom. With the mobile whiteboard, I am no longer tied to the front of the room writing whatever is projected. Ipad mirroring is great to display apps or show the students how to do something with their ipads. And remote access to my computer allows me to control my computer from my ipad.
Let me explain how I use this. If I'm projecting a pdf, I'll import it to my account via their web-based software, then I need to open a program on my computer. This will link my ipad to my computer. From my ipad, I open the imported pdf and tap Project and it will show on my projector
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Annotate is great for mirroring my iPad. Again, I need to open the computer software and make sure my PC and ipad are on the same network. Then I swipe to the control panel on my ipad and tap Airplay. Tap my name and it's as easy as that. Here's the iPad and projected view:
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Lastly, I normally use Annotate as remote access to my computer to draw on my Keynote slides. I prefer to use Keynote as their animations, notes and next slide view are key parts of my presentation. If I upload the pdf's and project them, it looses what is integral for me. Here's what I see from my iPad as Annotate is in Remote:
Their customer service is top notch as I had a recommendation to add a Secondary display to preview. They quickly added it in and now I can easily tap between display views so I can see my notes for the slide and what is coming up next.
Here's an example of drawing on my slide from my ipad as I walked around the room and what the students see projected.
Annotate does much more than I have described. I'm still trying to work in how I can use the other features as it's difficult since we're not a 1:1 school.
Without a doubt, Annotate is easily My Favorite! Let me know how it goes when you give it a try.
Wow do I wish this was free! I've been looking for something to do this very thing. Thank you so much for sharing - I'm definitely going to be trying out the free starter package!
ReplyDeleteI think the starter package will get you pretty far. The only limitation is with mirroring your ipad. However, $10 a year is a steal and well worth it for Pro! Let me know how it goes.
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