2018 WW: EDU: The interactive whiteboard(s) in CybaLounge

The interactive whiteboard in CybaLounge
Updated 1/18/2018

The interactive whiteboard offers various features of value in the classroom.  Since I believe web-worlds can be useful as classrooms on the web, I am here describing the capabilities that web-worlds already offer that give affordances similar to those offered by interactive whiteboards.

Cybalounge message board

• Anyone can type a message on the Cybalounge message board.
• The Cybalounge developer may respond to questions on it.
• You can make one like it:  Web-world message board.
• You can drag/drop your message board into your Cybalounge world.
• You get a free Cybalounge world by registering in Cybalounge.
• How to start building in Cybalounge, a roadmap for beginners 

Uses for interactive whiteboards

• Displaying what people write (the old use)
• Capturing and saving notes
• Polling an audience for opinions.

Web-worlds

• Cybalounge offers most services commonly ascribed to interactive whiteboards. 
• CybaLOUNGE is a user-built 3D virtual world running in a browser
• You get a free world when you register at Cybalounge
• How to start building in Cybalounge, a roadmap for beginners 
• Cybalounge is ready for virtual worlders to use: Tutorials and suggestions
• Web-worldz is a professionally-built web-world.

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Cybalounge affordances like those of interactive whiteboards

• The items below refer to Cybalounge featires.
• Other web-worlds can add these features if needed.

Displaying what people write (the old use)

• Web-world message board
• The above article gives instructions on how to set it up.
• The message board is a web page in the originator's Google account.
• The originator can access and modify it directly as well as inworld.
• Anyone can create a message board on their own Google account.
• Anyone with rez power in a world can drag and drop a board into the world.

Available: shared whiteboard on the web

• A Web Whiteboard
• A free account is available.
• To display this board in Cybalounge, drag and drop the url on the screen.

Capturing and saving notes 

• The board on the computer can be printed.
• Or otherwise distributed by normal computer and internet methods.

Running software such as a web browser

• HTML page prim: Put the web in your web-world
• Authorized users can drag and drop web pages

Polling an audience for opinions

• Counting software is not available, but could be.
• In virtual worlds, we often use polling by position.
• People move their avatars to a place marked with their selection.
• People then may discuss and change their selection.

If you are interested in web-worlds...

• Drop by my web office.
• My office times:  Weekdays: 12: -12:30 Central time  (US) 
• Maybe weekends, too.  Other times by appointment. 
• My web office: Cybalounge.
• Don't register -- enter as guest.  If you don't see me:
• Click the pointed pushpin on the bottom line 
• See if I am in Selby's room.. 
• We can also visit WebWorldz, a professionally-built world if you want. 
• Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
• A web page you can walk into
• Try a browser-based virtual world
• Cybalounge is ready for virtual worlders to use: Tutorials and suggestions

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