#TechTipTuesday – Transparent Whiteboard for Virtual Lessons

Every Tuesday I share a Tech Tip on our social media pages to assist our staff in their use of technology as it relates to their role.

Tech Tip Tuesday, use OBS in conjunction with your divisional microsoft or google suite to make transparent whiteboards so that your drawn notes appear on screen during virtual lessons — #TechTipTuesday – Transparent Whiteboard. (2021). Uploaded by Kirsten Thompson. Available online at: www.fishbowlteaching.com

At our most recent MAETL meeting, Andy McKiel shared how you can use Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) to make a transparent whiteboard for use during virtual lessons. OBS is a tool that is new to me this spring and I have been experimenting with it a bit for use during virtual presentations (see BYTE example below):

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A post shared by Kirsten Thompson – ICT (@thompsonclassroom)

I know that many of our staff could utilize this option for their classes so I started experimenting and put together a quick tutorial video via TikTok.

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how to make a virtual whiteboard for virtual lessons #mvsd_mb #todayilearned #edtech #obs #microsoftedu #cooltech
♬ Sunny Day – Ted Fresco

I recognize that this is a very quick overview so for those that want a full step-by-step guide I recommend checking out the following:

this detailed blog post by Rob Farley
this YouTube tutorial by Scott Hanselman