Teachers, Turn Your iPad into a Wireless Whiteboard! (For Free!)

Wired Educator’s Initiative: An iPad in Every Classroom

Qrayon, LLC has unleashed four very cool apps that allow you to turn your iPad a wireless whiteboard.  Look for Air Sketch Free (Yep, it’s free) in the iTunes Store, or its more powerful, big brother, that is loaded with more tools and capabilities, Air Sketch ($7.99), a sister app, Stickyboard (Free) which offers the same wireless whiteboard abilities with an endless stack of colorful sticky notes, and finally Air Projector ($0.99) which allows the projecting of PDFs and photos from your iPod Touch or iPhone.

All of the apps are designed to work with a computer connected to the same local network as your iPad. You open the app on the iPad and the specified URL from an HTML5 enabled browser on your computer. You will be able to project the image through your computer, and you can see you sketches, diagrams, notes, and sticky notes in real-time without installing any additional software. You can even share your your work to another iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch or via meeting software like iChat or WebEx.

The free version of Air Sketch has only basic diagrams and the full edition includes lots of diagrams and tools, as well as the the ability wirelessly project and annotate pictures.

Here are some free promotional codes to the first readers of this post. Enjoy! (Here are 3 download codes for Air Projector: HXHWTREPL7H9, MWRTRXW7AKMN, PWWN93NX779M, and here are some for Air Sketch. Again, for the first readers of this post to gobble up. EYRLMMLJ4JFW, 66LKJJTLFWK9, YPPYARKR9PEL. Go get’em.)

This app is approved for Wired Educator’s Initiative: An iPad in Every Classroom

Wired Educator believes the iPad is powerful tool in the classroom for students and teachers. We are constantly looking for ways to best utilize the iPad in the classroom.  Tell us how you are using it.