Snowballing — an educational and collaborative teaching technique that when combined with a whiteboard fosters successful idea sharing. Students begin by writing ideas, questions or other information on a piece of paper and in some instances students throw crumbled up papers to the front or center of the room to start discussions.
Another snowballing technique is to pass each paper along to another student each building on the ideas
thus snowballing the ideas. Both of these techniques builds inter-connective thoughts, teamwork and allows students to enhance ideas and learn together.
This starter exercise releases pent up energy in students and allows them to focus on subject matter. The technique can enhance productive cooperation and achieve goals.
A whiteboard can act as a focal point for learning by recording evolving ideas gathered by the snowball teaching technique. Teachers can display the ideas and students can come up to the board to build upon ideas furthering the thought process. A traditional whiteboard helps to make the exercise effective as it facilitates spontaneity and kinesthetic learning. 
Snowballing requires an organizing tool that a traditional whiteboard can solve.
Traditional Whiteboard Benefits
The traditional whiteboard and the use of magnet accessories can be used to arrange and group ideas, helping to establish themes and details. The traditional whiteboard can serve as a central point helping students to follow debate and foster opportunities to build upon the solutions. Traditional whiteboards are realtime recorders and interactive spur-of-the-moment billboards that help to establish momentum in front of a class.
EVERWhite provides whiteboards for interactive collaboration and teaching including; standard, pre-designed with writing lines or diagrams, matte surfaced whiteboards for dual use of writing on or projection and mobile whiteboards when flexibility is needed.
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Dan Griffin is general manager of EVERWhite, a U.S. manufacturer and seller of whiteboards and tack boards used for teaching, coaching, planning, collaboration and tracking. Along with his expertise in the use of whiteboards, Dan excels in leadership, new product development, business operations, continuous improvement and product marketing. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, with a focus on marketing, from Temple University.
