Drawing Freehand in Moodle
One feature of PoodLL on Moodle I particularly enjoy, is the whiteboard. The standard whiteboard looks like this:
Using the whiteboard you can have your students draw pictures or by loading a background image have them annotate pictures. Using annotation students can trace routes on maps, complete electrical diagrams or label body parts.
Activities that involve drawing can take more time than other activities, but they are fun for students to do, and fun to see what other students drew. The pictures drawn can also be reused to help personalize the Moodle course, or in subsequent years as examples for new students, or simply for export to portfolios.
You can see a video walkthrough of a drawing activity here.
If you wish to try out the current whiteboard, login as a student at http://demo.poodll.com and look for the crocodile drawing activity in Topic 4 (remember to press both save buttons!)
I don’t think that there is anything else in Moodle that accomplishes this. But we have a wee problem.
Wee Problem
The current whiteboard is not suitable for iPads and other touch devices. Actually it will work, but it will probably never work that well with touch devices due to the way the javascript it uses works. So we need to add that ability, or start from scratch with a new whiteboard. I basically favor starting over with a good open source javascript whiteboard and moodlizing it.
The best candidate at present seems to be:
Has anybody used this? Or does anybody have other suggestions?
