[elearning] Google SVG whiteboard

[Roland Gesthuizen]

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.

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.

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 SVG<http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/>(scalable vector graphics) standard to accomplish this in most browsers and
> VML <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Markup_Language> (vector markup
> language) where SVG is not available.
>


http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/03/drawing-on-your-creativity-in-docs.html

Regards Roland

-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"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
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