When I worked at a place with Jamboards, it was actually super useful doing meetings with virtual post-it notes that remote participants could move around. And it meant the meeting's facilitator could be remote as well.
You gotta be sure to get the super special chalk mathematicians are hoarding, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhNUjg9X4g8
Cheers to Walter Lewin :)
A bit different now with remote-first or hybrid... If one person isn't in the office, it's basically dead in the water.
Without the whiteboard we would have been sketching on paper and would have been buried in waste paper within the hour.
Chalk feels like it made sense in a time back when people didn't bathe daily and didn't know about deodorant. When the words "skin care" were decades away from being uttered for the first time. The fact that chalk is white-colored doesn't make it any less dirty or filthy.
It doesn't feel like it belongs in the twenty-first century, not in civilized places like lecture halls or meeting rooms.
(Chalking up before sweaty rock climbing, of course, is a totally different story.)
You should check out Huddly Canvas -- it's a USB whiteboard camera designed for just this use case.
I actually have a slate chalkboard my dad got from an old schoolhouse in Nebraska. He built a frame for it, gave it me when my kids were young, and I have moved with that all over the world. I have actually as productive is a chalkboard and a phone on a tripod, joining the phone to the VTC so people can see the chalkboard. I wish there was a better way to do that.
I love chalkboards so much, I really, really miss them.
If I'm ever in charge, I'm buying chalkboards.