About Pencil Box
Gone are the days of a conventional mini whiteboard... Welcome to The Classroom Pencil Box. Pencil Box is an easy to use drawing application that enables you to take advantage of a pencil, pen, highlighter, pair of...
Gone are the days of a conventional mini whiteboard... Welcome to The Classroom Pencil Box.
Pencil Box is an easy to use drawing application that enables you to take advantage of a pencil, pen, highlighter, pair of compasses, ruler and protractor. It also offers you some preset backgrounds in the form of a pie chart, square paper, a grid axes, isometric paper, square dot paper and a blue tint background. If any of these don't take your fancy, you can import your own background from your photo library or camera and edit the pictures like an overlay. This app is ideal for bigger screened devices and the use of a stylus for pin point accuracy drawing.
The app also benefits from 8 different screens that students can draw on and now share with teaching staff and vice versa. The exciting new sharing platform allows students to send their workspace to the teacher, who can then review, edit and then share back with individuals or with every learner who share the same class/group code.
How could you use Pencil Box?
Snap shot classic mistakes and ask students to highlight them, give all students an exam question, ask students to mark a snapshot of work, set homework tasks, or simply use the app to easily display what students have been doing. Any more ideas or examples of good practise, send them to
[email protected].
Some other quick lesson ideas:
1) Take a picture of an exam question, provide the model answer and share it with the class.
2) Similar shapes - if a partner stands 10m away from the base of a building, take a picture, draw on the picture a right angled triangle formed by the base of the building, the tip and your partner. Use the ruler to measure the dimensions of your triangle and can you use similar triangles to calculate the height of the building?
3) Trigonometry lesson - using the protractor to measure real life angles and use appropriate measurements to calculate heights or lengths.
4) Take a picture of a students work and ask a partner to peer assess.
5) Take examples of students work using the 8 different screens and share the positive features.
6) Import an image to the stage. Using the tools available, sketch over the imported picture to trace it. Remove the imported picture from the stage and your sketch will remain.
Idea 4 and 5 require a projector connector or wireless connection to display on a whiteboard. Hopefully the lesson ideas would be applicable to any Maths, Science, Design and Technology or Arts lesson. I am a Maths teacher so this list isn't exhaustive.
As a teacher I wanted to create a powerful resource for the classroom. I hope you like it.
Mr W
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Pencil Box since it was posted on our website on 2021-12-13 19:04:26.
The latest version is and it was updated on 2024-04-19 17:49:23. See below the changes in each version.
Pencil Box version
Updated At: 2019-12-01
Changes: New hide canvas feature to prevent users from drawing whilst host requires eye contact.
Fixed an issue with a dead spot in the middle of the screen.
PDF import has been added via the website air app.
Any other feedback please let me know and I will try to action asap.
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