[AG-TECH] Integrating SmartBoards?

[Brian Corrie]

Hi Mike,

I am afraid that we have not made any more progress on the smartboard 
side of things. Still of interest, but fallen off our radar as something 
that is urgent, and therefore hasn't been developed any further.

We have users that use the smartboards in collaboration, but the sharing 
is typically done through our SharedVNC tool sharing the desktop that 
has the smartboard controlling it... We would be interested in any work 
being done in this area...

Cheers,

Brian


Mike Bogle wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I’ve been trawling back through the mail archives to locate discussions 
> on institutions/organisations that have succeeded in integrating 
> SmartBoards into their room nodes, but so far I haven’t been able to 
> find anything.
> 
> It seems that lots of people are interested in the idea, but may not 
> have actually done it yet – at least that’s what it looked like a few 
> years ago.  The closest I saw was Simon Fraser University ( 
> http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/web-mail-archive/lists/ag-tech/2004/12/msg00088.html), 
> however I got the impression they were running the Whiteboards along 
> side AG (presumably using the software and/or technology that came with 
> the WB’s themselves), rather than as an integrated technology.  (Am I 
> right?)
> 
> Since then has anyone been successful in integrating 
> SmartBoard/Electronic Whiteboard technology (particularly smarttech’s 
> stuff)?  And if so do you have any information available on how you did it?
> 
> We’re looking into setting up a room node at the University of New South 
> Wales, but have not done so yet – so any help/experience you might be 
> able to offer would be much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mike
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