[AG-TECH] Electronic Whiteboards

[Markus Buchhorn]

Hi Robert

At 13:54 30/03/2004 -0800, Robert Callaway wrote:
>I am wondering if there is a wide use of electronic whiteboards in Access Grid sessions. Is this something that I should consider incorporating in my design? Also, does anyone have any advice on specific equipment?

I presume you mean the big white things with pen trackers, rather than the software whiteboard tools?

I've just bought some e-Beams and Mimio's for our 3 nodes at ANU, and will shortly have some students working on code to integrate them with perhaps wb/wbd/dlb or similar. I haven't seen a lot of use (Ok, any) of them in AG sessions, as a native digital source, only as something you point a camera at :-( so I'd like to fix that. 

If anybody else is working in this space please let me know ASAP :-)

Our astronomers rated it as one of their 'must-haves' for their node, I imagine your engineers will be the same.

We might also look at hooking in SmartBoards down the track, but they're a lot more pricey.

Cheers,
        Markus


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