Wiimote repurposed for multi-point interactive whiteboard - Engadget

[jason]

One of my students in CS8932 sent me this link: Wiimote repurposed for multi-point interactive whiteboard

We’d been talking a bout the use of whiteboards in schools now, and with this ‘hack’ anyone can have a digital whiteboard for a fraction of the cost using a data projector and a Wii controller. Johnny’s included the software on his page and http://www.wiimoteproject.com/. I’m going to see if I can make up one of the pens.

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[ashenseraph.livejournal.com]

Ooh, cool. Just sent that to the head of ISS and head of Media Services at my university, since we've been talking about interactive whiteboards this past semester.

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

:)

Accessibility

[francisb.livejournal.com]

Truthfully, this kind of stuff scares me. When this kind of technology is implemented without a great deal of though, many of us are left out of the party.
The internet has been a shining example of this. In the beginning, there was text. Many of us rejoiced in the ability to read on-line. Then came graphics, and multimedia. Since then it has been a house to house battle to regain that in which we were once included.

Re: Accessibility

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

The question of 'should we have whiteboards at all' is a valid one. This is more of a question of whether it can be done cheaply. The digital whiteboard functions the same as a whiteboard or blackboard does in a classroom, though I'd imagine that in the future it would be easy enough to include a voice-over function that would describe what the whiteboard mouse was moving over and doing. that would be interesting.

Accessibility is a problem and issue, but I know you'd not say that cameras are not valid. I assume you'd say that photos online should be properly tagged if used on web sites. I'd agree.