Whiteboarding

Definition

By Robin Good at [1]

"Whiteboarding is the ability to mark-up, annotate and draw in real-time on any document, image, screen, slide or picture appearing on the screen.

It is to be noted that in the academic world, digital whiteboards that posses digital capabilities have been an increasingly popular stable of the modern classroom.

What it is being referred to here it is whiteboarding done online, with other people that are connecting at a distance and in which the ability to mark-up, annotate and draw on screen can be as useful as when needing to communicate visually in a physical classroom.

According to Wikipedia: "Whiteboarding is a term used to describe the placement of shared files on an on-screen "shared notebook" or "whiteboard"."

Whiteboarding tools are often integral part of many web conferencing, presentation and onlien collaboration tools. From WebEx to iVocalize, most full-featured conferencing tools include some form of whiteboard and associated toolset.

There is also another group of whiteboarding technologies more appropriately called "screen annotation tools", that work independently of any specific application and can be used to annotate and mark-up anything that is shown on the screen."

More Information

Miniguide by Robin Good at http://www.kolabora.com/news/2006/11/02/whiteboarding_tools_and_technology_a.htm