Here is a fascinating bit of hot news, fresh off my Twitter US friends. Google Docs now includes a whiteboard and it is built on SVG. Some of you probably read about the interesting work by Bill Kerr with
SVG and that with Inkscape, a cool and free open source SVG drawing program we have used in our classrooms. This is going to lend some
weight behind the standard. <br><br>I have been involved with some fascinating collaboration using
Google Docs with different teams editing the same page, at the same
time. I am now interested to try it out with this new function.<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
The team and technology behind Insert Drawing originally came from the
startup Tonic Systems, which Google acquired in 2007. The drawing
feature that we've built relies heavily on a relatively new capability
in browsers: the ability to render vector graphics. We use the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/">SVG</a> (scalable vector graphics) standard to accomplish this in most browsers and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Markup_Language">VML</a> (vector markup language) where SVG is not available. <br clear="all">
</div></blockquote><br> <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/03/drawing-on-your-creativity-in-docs.html">http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/03/drawing-on-your-creativity-in-docs.html</a><br><br>Regards Roland<br>
<br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<br>