Think Creatively with Microsoft Whiteboard

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-whiteboard/digital-whiteboard-app

Albert Einstein said, "creativity is intelligence having fun"

(10 Positive Quotes to InspireCreativity - Happier, 2013.)

    In addition, it is essential to combine creativity and structure

when teaching students to read and write. With that said, Microsoft

Whiteboard offers students the chance to transfer and expand their writing

skills through visually engaging lessons that are focused and dynamic. Moreover,

Microsoft Whiteboard enhances the classroom experience through specific

features that develop students' creativity, cooperative and collaborative

skills, and assignment features. 

    Students magnify their creative reading and writing skills

using Microsoft Whiteboard (M.W.) tools. Teachers and students can

insert images, materials from other documents, shapes, and stickers onto the

whiteboard. The possibilities are endless with Microsoft Whiteboard teachers

able to create literacy project-based learning assignments or insert notes that

describe the story's sequence of events. In addition, creativity is limitless when

students use the tool's features to input pictures to visualize vocabulary

or other literacy concepts (e.g., Poems, informative, expository, and

fictional writing). 

    Teachers shift cooperative learning and collaboration into high gear

with Microsoft Whiteboard by adding the application to Microsoft Teams

(a communications platform that allows users to connect with video, audio,

phone, and chat.) On the one hand, teachers can create graphic

organizer templates for students to use and complete grouped assignments.

On the other hand, students learn from one another as they organize

their ideas visually with real-time feedback from teachers and peers. As students

brainstorm, the teacher can give direct feedback to the group to strengthen their

writing skills.

    Teachers can maximize student learning outcomes by assigning individual and

group projects. Using Microsoft Whiteboard in conjunction with Microsoft

Teams, teachers can monitor students' input in reading or writing focus lessons.

The M.W. 's live cursor allows the teacher to visualize where students have

placed their contributions to the project, who is an active participant, and

which student might need additional support or clarification on tasks. The

best part about Microsoft Whiteboard is that the content created can be saved

as a template and used later for other reading and writing assignments.

Moreover, Microsoft Whiteboard intensifies creativity in the classroom through

its innovative tools and features. Creativity and learning are exponential

when students add images to represent concepts and descriptions from external

sources onto the whiteboard. The platform allows teachers and students to expand

their thinking as individuals and collaborative reading and writing groups.

    Finally, teachers can magnify learning concepts by assigning individual and

group projects that coincide with students reading and writing

outcomes and goals. The platform takes students beyond the classroom

and into infinite possibilities for transformative reading and

writing concepts (e.g. specific writing formats, graphic

organizers, and/or a graffiti board.)