Classroom Pencil Box
Free
5.33for iPhone, iPad and more
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About Classroom Pencil Box
Ideal for bigger screened devices and use of a stylus for pin point accuracy drawing. 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 camera roll or camera and edit the pictures like an overlay.
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 every learner with 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 mrwslab@gmail.com.
Other quick lesson ideas:
1) Take a picture of an exam question, provide the model answer, save it to your camera roll and upload it to your website for students to see. Alternatively if you are a student, answer the question and send it to the teacher.
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. If you have any ideas about how you might use it in Maths or another subject, please email them to mrwslab@gmail.com and I will add them to the app description.
As a teacher I wanted to create a powerful resource for the classroom. The following tools are invaluable and a freely built into the app:
Tools:
1) Pen, pencil, highlighter and eraser
2) Protractor
3) Pair of compasses
4) Ruler
5) Preset paper - pie chart, square paper, grid axes, isometric, square dot, lined, blue background and lesson plan template
6) Insert text
7) Import from camera roll or take a picture
8) Save to camera roll
I hope you like it.
Mr W
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 every learner with 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 mrwslab@gmail.com.
Other quick lesson ideas:
1) Take a picture of an exam question, provide the model answer, save it to your camera roll and upload it to your website for students to see. Alternatively if you are a student, answer the question and send it to the teacher.
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. If you have any ideas about how you might use it in Maths or another subject, please email them to mrwslab@gmail.com and I will add them to the app description.
As a teacher I wanted to create a powerful resource for the classroom. The following tools are invaluable and a freely built into the app:
Tools:
1) Pen, pencil, highlighter and eraser
2) Protractor
3) Pair of compasses
4) Ruler
5) Preset paper - pie chart, square paper, grid axes, isometric, square dot, lined, blue background and lesson plan template
6) Insert text
7) Import from camera roll or take a picture
8) Save to camera roll
I hope you like it.
Mr W
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What's New in the Latest Version 5.33
Last updated on Dec 2, 2019
Old Versions
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.
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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Version History
5.33
Dec 2, 2019
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.
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.
5.12
Nov 28, 2019
New hide canvas feature to prevent users from drawing whilst host requires eye contact.
Next in line for development is PDF import/scribbling.
Any other feedback please let me know and I will try to action asap.
Next in line for development is PDF import/scribbling.
Any other feedback please let me know and I will try to action asap.
5.07
Dec 3, 2018
Changed the compass tool so that the positioning icon is now opaque and will assist with accurate constructions.
Any other feedback please let me know and I will try to action asap.
Any other feedback please let me know and I will try to action asap.
5.05
Jul 24, 2018
Fix for camera and gallery requests not being made properly.
5.01
Jul 2, 2018
Complete re-vamp of the UI.
Users/students/learners will find the zoom and pan feature has now been redeveloped. All tools are remain visible whilst zooming and panning. Tools are also setup to improve canvas visibility.
Hosts/teachers can now assess users/students with on the spot T or F, ABCD or RAG quizzes. The results are shown as a dynamic bar chart. Hosts/teachers can now force a currently working canvas from users to keep the flow of the working environment.
Users/students/learners will find the zoom and pan feature has now been redeveloped. All tools are remain visible whilst zooming and panning. Tools are also setup to improve canvas visibility.
Hosts/teachers can now assess users/students with on the spot T or F, ABCD or RAG quizzes. The results are shown as a dynamic bar chart. Hosts/teachers can now force a currently working canvas from users to keep the flow of the working environment.
3.86
May 19, 2018
Various little improvements.
A fix for sharing a students work from the class view.
A fix for sharing a students work from the class view.
3.81
May 18, 2018
Various little improvements.
Privacy policy link now included.
Privacy policy link now included.
3.74
Jan 23, 2018
Restored the class code capability.
All web traffic now moves via https, hence the loss in the class code feature when the server certificate was upgraded.
All web traffic now moves via https, hence the loss in the class code feature when the server certificate was upgraded.
2.2
Apr 20, 2016
Pinch to zoom has now been added.
Class code is now visible to class teacher after logging in for convenience.
Bug fixes
Class code is now visible to class teacher after logging in for convenience.
Bug fixes
2.1
Apr 11, 2016
Gone are the days of the conventional mini whiteboard... welcome to the new Pencil Box.
This update introduces a great new sharing platform. You can now, as a teacher, easily control a sharing activity through Pencil Box. Students can send you what they have created. You can view them, edit them and either send it back an edited image to the student, or send to the whole class for further work.
Possible uses: 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. I will be using this app alongside Air Server to be able to bring student's work up onto the projector screen for further discussion. Any more ideas or examples of good practise, send them to mrwslab@gmail.com.
This update introduces a great new sharing platform. You can now, as a teacher, easily control a sharing activity through Pencil Box. Students can send you what they have created. You can view them, edit them and either send it back an edited image to the student, or send to the whole class for further work.
Possible uses: 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. I will be using this app alongside Air Server to be able to bring student's work up onto the projector screen for further discussion. Any more ideas or examples of good practise, send them to mrwslab@gmail.com.
1.3
Nov 18, 2014
Improved protractor and ruler experience
1.2
Nov 7, 2014
Line width scroll bar
Select text colour
Lined paper
Quick lesson plan template
Bug fixes
Select text colour
Lined paper
Quick lesson plan template
Bug fixes
1.1
Oct 25, 2014
Bug fixes for IOS 8
1.0
Oct 15, 2014
Classroom Pencil Box FAQ
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Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Classroom Pencil Box.
iPhone
Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
Classroom Pencil Box supports English
