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[Christopher Chan]

David Groos wrote:
> I'm not familiar at all with this software but have been thinking about 
> something to work with this 'open source' interactive white board by 
> Jonny Lee :-)  

...yes, I have heard about the Wii Board and maybe I should try to set 
one up at home on my Linux box too...

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKCrGvShZs&feature=related 
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKCrGvShZs&feature=related> (please 
> excuse the 20 seconds of ads at the start--it really is amazing, though, 
> if you haven't seen it.)  Would this software work with something like 
> that?  Not only is the Wii 'smartboard' extremely affordable, it solves 
> the size limitation of smartboards and promeathean boards.  Thanks, David

Activstudio gives the teacher a whole lot more than just the 'Paint' 
demonstration. As for head tracking...is there any school that has a VR 
environment for their teaching purposes?

Activstudio itself would most probably have worked fine with the Wii 
board so the problem is not replacing the hardware.

The problem is whether there is a software equivalent to Activstudio.

But I will have a go at setting up a Wii board if any of them uber 
expensive Promethean boards die.

regards,

Christopher

> 
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Christopher Chan 
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk 
> <mailto:christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>> wrote:
> 
>     Jordan Mantha wrote:
>      > HI all,
>      >
>      > Recently I wrote a blog post [0] about how I think Edubuntu and Linux
>      > in general in Education really need to succeed for Linux/FLOSS to go
>      > mainstream. In particular, we (Edubuntu) need to advocate for
>      > educational users to open source software developers. Well, Aaron
>      > Seigo, one of the lead developers of KDE, read it and has responded
>      > [1]. He's asked for educator feedback on somethings he's been
>     thinking
>      > about and has created a wiki page [2] to brainstorm ideas for making
>      > one of KDE 4's new technologies, plasma [3], work hard for education.
>      > Anyway, I thought it might be of interest to the list.
> 
>     What alternatives are there to Activstudio from Promethean?
> 
>     That piece of software makes it easy for teachers to create content for
>     use in their classes and can be used in tandem with a physical
>     interactive whiteboard which allow their pupils/students to get
>     involved.
> 
>     A powerful and easy to use content creation tool that is easily used
>     with an interactive whiteboard can mean a lot. Not all teachers are
>     going to want to use subject specific software. All teachers would
>     however appreciate being able to make their own stuff for their classes.
> 
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