http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2007/virtual-white-board/ Thoughts on Emerging Media and Higher Education Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:17:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2007/virtual-white-board/comment-page-1/#comment-5395 J.D. Williams Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:30:10 +0000 http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=157#comment-5395 I have a SmartBoard in my classroom. When I first looked at this website (thanks for the link by the way), I thought "What a great way to let parents in on what we are doing in class. They could just go to the website and see what we're working on right then." Then I looked at it some more and tried to decide if it could work that way. I don't think it could because of it being web based. With the SmartBoard, when I pick up a pen to write it writes over the webpage, not actually on it. I could use the mouse and write in the box on the page, but that would kind of defeat the purpose of the SmartBoard. Maybe they'll make a plug-in sometime that would work with the SmarBoard (or other IWB) technology. Then I could see it being more useful for me. I have a SmartBoard in my classroom. When I first looked at this website (thanks for the link by the way), I thought “What a great way to let parents in on what we are doing in class. They could just go to the website and see what we’re working on right then.” Then I looked at it some more and tried to decide if it could work that way. I don’t think it could because of it being web based. With the SmartBoard, when I pick up a pen to write it writes over the webpage, not actually on it. I could use the mouse and write in the box on the page, but that would kind of defeat the purpose of the SmartBoard. Maybe they’ll make a plug-in sometime that would work with the SmarBoard (or other IWB) technology. Then I could see it being more useful for me.

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