Monday, November 17, 2008
Collaborative Drawing On The Dabbleboard
MakeUseOf.com: "The chalk gives way to the mouse. The canvas to the screen. But essentially online whiteboards try to do the same thing that real world whiteboards used to do in our good ol’ school days. Online whiteboards though have gone a few steps beyond the mimicry."
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This looks like too much power. I really can't see a teacher utilizing a program like this to its full potential. Are standard whiteboards not teaching students as well as this program would? The only advantage I can see with using this program is that you don't have to physically erase a board. I'm sorry but it seems like a waste
I think that where this program might be useful is in allowing for off-site collaboration, say for online classes. This allows students to not only see what the teacher is writing on the board, but also work together on projects on the board. Otherwise, there would not be any interaction between the students, something important that is missing from a lot of online classes.
"Virtual Ink" apps like this keep showing promise, but rarely offer a feature set that actually gets used. While they may help some, often paper and a scanner are just as good for collaborating on projects long-distance. My high school tried to implement 'smart boards' - projection based white-boards, but they constantly slowed the teachers down with recalibration, unintended gestures, and the like. Most teachers just ended up unhappy they had less 'real' whiteboard space to use. I have, however seen video-capture for whiteboards in corporate settings which provide an equally useful document with much less hassle.
Yeah, my high school had "smart boards" and it was interesting that the english and art teachers hated them, and the math, science and even history teachers loved them. They would set up slides so that they would write notes on the board, which it would remember, and then hit next to show an image of what they had just talked about. It also meant that teachers would have a copy of their notes, and could update their notes for things that they had thought of in class. Also, if something went wrong in class and they needed to go back and solve a math problem or something, then they had exactly what they did in class instead of having to copy it down and take it back to their office.
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