Software to assist with maths homework on a social network?

I am thinking about being available on-line to my students for 30 minutes to 1 hour each week, for their maths homework. Does anyone know af a tool where I can write on a board and the sums come up on the screen for me and students logged in to a virtual classroom? I find using a keyboard for fractions and other maths quite difficult to keep neat. Is there such a tool? Does elluminate do this sort of thing?

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Permalink Reply by April Chamberlain on September 13, 2008 at 1:28pm

Elluminate will enable you to have a virtual white board with markers, etc. However, Elluminate costs. You might want to consider downloading Jing or Wink to record a lesson as you work it in Paint or KindleLab. You would then post that file on your website if you have one or Teacher Tube and share the link with your students.

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Permalink Reply by April Chamberlain on September 13, 2008 at 1:37pm

I just read this post on Web 2.0 Guru and wanted to share.

YUUGUU - Free Webinars - 30 free seats
This is another great tool to begin using when trying to share and train online. It is free for up to 30 participants. Just download, install, create an account and share you link. It's truly as simple as simple can be. You can share your desktop, chat, speak together for free. Check it out. It's worth trying if you can't afford high costs. Yuuguu try it out for yourself.

I have not tried YUUGUU.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Anderson on September 13, 2008 at 2:37pm

Hi Britt,

I don't know about elluminate, but I was thinking maybe dimdim, kindlelabs and a tablet might be able to accomplish what I think you want to do. The first two are free, the tablet or slate (drawing tablet) I think can be had for well under $100 for a low priced one. You may even be able to use a pen mouse (just something to draw numbers with). I just ordered a pen mouse, so I may be able to tell you more in a week or so. Hopefully enough ideas will come out here to help everyone be able to figure out how to do this type of thing.
Good luck!

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Permalink Reply by Britt Gow on September 14, 2008 at 1:58am

Thanks Paul and April for your help - I will try these suggestions out and let you know which works best for me.

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Permalink Reply by greg on September 15, 2008 at 6:34pm

Hi Britt,
I just started to use scbl with my students. You can publish the pages as webpages or you can let students add to it. I have used it for study guides. Here is my
example

Here is where you start your own:
http://www.skrbl.com/

It is free and you don't have to download any programs.

I hope this helps.
Greg