Tech Tidbit video: Scrawlar.com

The latest "Tech Tidbits" tutorial video focuses on Scrawlar, which is a free website that allows teachers to sign up for a free classroom account and add students to a class roster. During the sign-up process, the teacher will create a unique access code (consisting of lower-case letters and/or at least 1 number) which will allow students to access the class account when they log in as students. When a student is added to the class roster, the site creates a log-in number that each student will use to sign in.

Scrawlar serves as an online word processor/whiteboard sharing site that allows teachers to save and share documents and/or whiteboard screens with students.  When sharing documents with students, teachers can choose to let students view or edit documents.  In turn, students can create and share documents and/or whiteboard screens with the teacher as well as other students in the class.  Teachers can utilize this site to help share information with students for collaborative projects or to check for classroom activities such as morning work or as formative assessments.  Students can also use the word processor or whiteboard functions to submit informative reports or displays without the use of e-mail.