By Andrew Erpelding
EdTech Tools
Teaching Online has never been easier with Wacom and its new software partners!
December 1, 2020
Wacom partners with leading educational software applications to provide teachers and students with the best solutions for the virtual classroom and remote learning.
With many schools and universities forced to shift to online teaching, Wacom is committed to providing teachers and students with innovative solutions to tackle the challenges of remote teaching, e-learning and online collaboration. Therefore, Wacom is partnering with leading educational software applications, that make the transition to online education as smooth as possible. The edtech solutions from Explain Everything help teachers to better navigate remote teaching. Combined with the intuitive and natural pen experience of the Wacom One pen display or Wacom Intuos pen tablet, they provide easy to use interactive whiteboards, video recording and real-time collaboration for the virtual classroom. As a bundle with the Intuos and Wacom One, Wacom and its partners offer teachers everything they need to interact naturally with their students for engaging lessons and facilitated communication. And because Wacom devices are compatible with all major operating systems and independent of software updates, they stay fully functional for many years – in the classroom, at home or in any other work environment.
“The pen is a powerful tool and it has been used in education for centuries,” says Faik Karaoglu, Executive Vice President of Wacom’s Branded Business. “With the world’s newly found focus on remote and digital learning, Wacom wanted to offer teachers, students and parents all the tools and resources they need to make the transition to online and digital teaching easier and stress-free. Together with these partners we bring the pen to the digital classroom and provide the right technology for teachers at a moment where it is needed most. “
Bringing the pen to the virtual classroom
The following software application combined with a Wacom One or Intuos bring the advantages of traditional pen and paper or marker and whiteboard to the digital classroom. These edtech solutions allow teachers and students to continue the methods they know from a traditional classroom setting and use it to connect with each other online. Through Wacom’s focus on comfort and ease of use, the pen feels natural and well balanced even after a long hours of work.
Explain Everything
Explain Everything is a recordable digital whiteboard for real-time collaboration and video recording that works on Android, iOS, Chromebook and web browser. Features include:
· Sharing video lessons, collaboration, or live cast
· Collaboration or/and group assignments, remote learning
· Infinite canvas for any kind of media
· Predefined or custom templates & clipart/doodles
· Easy integration and sharing to videoconferencing and cloud services
This is how it works:
Explain Everything
“This partnership allows us to bring an excellent experience to everyone using Explain Everything on PCs or Macs in their workflow. The precision and convenience of use of Wacom devices unlocks the full potential of working with the whiteboard and help users better present their creative ideas, both through recordings and real-time collaboration.” Piotr Sliwinski, co-founder and VP of Innovation at Explain Everything.
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