#whiteboard

#whiteboard from #Microsoft is being deprecated, and all sheets will be deleted this September.

I use the tool a lot for drawing and sketching and have lots of drawing sheets on it. Now I need to export all of them one by one to inconvenient formats or lose all the drawings.

Mental notes:

• Never again use software with proprietary cloud service.
• Evaluate again building a custom drawing tool.

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Okay, help: what's a good compromise for a whiteboard for one-off use in a lecture? I want to collect student ideas, group them together and talk them through interactively while showing the whiteboard on a screen. Nothing more. For a long time I would have used Flinga Whiteboard (https://flinga.fi/) but my employer stopped paying for it. They do pay for Miro but it's horrendously complicated to use, and a steep learning curve for a one-off activation exercise in class. Is there something simple, freely available (maybe - ideally - open source) that is at the Flinga end of complexity rather than Miro? #education #EdTech #whiteboard #AcademicChatter