[AG-TECH] electronic whiteboards

[Luc Renambot]

Not directly in the AG context, we are using
a smartboard (ie touch-screen with pens) over 
a plasma screen. Works very nice. There's also
a model which works with projectors.
>From that, you can control any application.
Netmeeting and Powerpoint are "smartboard
aware", which means it should be user-friendly.

There's even an SDK to capture the events, and
develop new applications. For instance, we have a
student programming an link between the smartboard
and our tiled-display.

For the slides, just output to a pdf file (dvipdf),
and you can present them fullscreen on Windows or
Linux.

Luc.
renambot at cs.vu.nl

] -----Original Message-----
] From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
] [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Cindy Sievers
] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 17:31
] To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
] Subject: [AG-TECH] electronic whiteboards
] 
] 
] Has anyone used an electronic whiteboard on the Access Grid 
] to share notes? What are the issues associated with this?  
] What other alternatives are 
] there? We are going to do a class over the grid and the 
] instructor wants to 
] be able to annotate and write notes on a whiteboard for 
] remote and local 
] students to see. He would really prefer to write on his 
] slides (which are 
] in LaTex and need to be converted to PowerPoint - another 
] issue - is this 
] possible?).  Any suggestions?
] 
] Thanks!