I believe David Groos wanted this to hit the list and not just me.
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Here are some of my thoughts:
The wiiboard is awesome and the way to go I think BUT I will start to check
it out this summer and we'll see :) It will take a lot of work. Is there
some place on an edubuntu wiki page where people are consolidate their
experiences/knolwedge with this?
Smartboard works w/ Edubuntu? That's great, didn't know that. Does it have
to run as a local app? is this a linux version of their Notebook software?
how updated is it?
Referring back to a few days ago (March
2<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/2009-March/005186.html>)
Christopher alerted us to the fact that the Promethean people have created a
Linux version of their new activeinspire software (though only 32 bit at
this time) and that is truly significant. I've got colleagues using the
smart board and others using the promethean and while the board is what
draws one attention, the capabilities of the software is what pays off in
the day to day use... This is a long way of saying that the software angle
is critical in what I've seen. For those unfamiliar with the market,
promethean is a competitor to smartboard and many people prefer it to a
smart board though they both have their advantages and disadvantages.
Good luck
David
PS I just did a search on wiki.edubuntu.org for 'smartboard' and there were
2 hits: 1 in catalan which I don't know what it said and another of an irc
chat. Feel free to beat me to putting up a page there on
'smartboards'--I'll be looking again this summer and if there I'll add to
it, if it isn't there I'll add it.
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Christopher Chan <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > You could supplement your Smartboard with a wiimote and a projector to
> > create a wiiboard. Here are my notes for doing this under Ubuntu
> > Intrepid Ibex 8.10:
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug/msg/fdc31300fd432f7d
> >
> > This wiiboard is a variation of Johnny Lee's demonstration at TED:
> >
> >
> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/johnny_lee_demos_wii_remote_hacks.html
> >
>
> Do you have a hack for a second or even a third mouse button?
>
>
> cheers,
>
> Christopher
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