[Opensource] Google SVG whiteboard

[Roland Gesthuizen]

I will wait until the others have had their say. To date I use it for
FirstAid bulletins, help worksheets, strategy plans, network TCPIP lists and
other documentation. I am keen to expand it's use. Our principal is a keen
advocate and we now use a special gmail address to access all her new and
archived e-mail.

Yesterday I showed her secretary how to create a message label. The penny
dropped when she exclaimed that it was brilliant that users could create a
type of automatic folder that sorts without clicking.

Regarsd Roland

2009/3/27 Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au>

> Very cool Roland - thanks for that.I am looking very closely at Google
> Docs as a possible solution to some issues we have here.
> Is anyone using Google Docs as their "official" school collaboration
> system, not just their own personal use?
> Cheers
> Cameron
> On 27/03/2009, at 1:17 AM, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
>
> 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
> wi! th 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/20!
> 09/03/drawing-on-your-creativity-in-docs.html<http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/03/drawing-on-your-creativity-in-docs.html>
>
> Regards Rolan d
>
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> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
>
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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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