WhiteBoard

digital

IRC, Live Chat? CampFire? none are very visual
Thinka Ture http://www.thinkature.com/
- Nov'2011 update: gone http://techcrunch.com/tag/thinkature/
UNIS school uses the ActivBoard/Activ Studio
- other: Smart Board http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Boards/
- Gary Stager is not a fan. IWBs and their clicker spawn are a terrible investment that breathes new life into medieval educational practices. Aside from producing an illusion of modernity, interactive whiteboards are a pre-Gutenberg technology; the priest chants while the monks slavishly take dictation on their tablets. They reinforce the dominance of the front of the room and teacher supremacy. At a time of enormous educational upheaval, technological change, and an increasing gulf between adults and children, it is a bad idea to purchase technology that facilitates the delivery of information and increases the physical distance between teacher and learner.
next gen: Ms Surface? http://thinklab.typepad.com/think_lab/2007/06/smart_boards_we.html
Dabble Board http://www.dabbleboard.com/
Graph Drawing, Mind Mapping, Diagram

Nov'2011 idea: remote synchronous shared page

kinda like Adobe Illustrator - single page (but of infinite size) - scroll at will
place objects
- text block
  - list
  - nested list
  - table
    - table with nested lists in cells
- images from elsewhere
- Sketching
- arcs between objects - redraws when object gets moved
views updated in realtime
edit lock at the object level, so multiple people can be making simultaneous changes
need some parallel Real Time communication, but could be any separate app - text, voice, video
if really only need 1 person controlling per session, than just do this with Screen Sharing?
2021 update: Miro, Excalidraw

Bill Seitz