One of the key challenges for the 3pi team has been to make this awesome technology work in average classrooms with non-techy teachers.
Very early on in our adventures down the wiimote whiteboard path we realised that the system was still pretty 'raw' and needed to be tweaked to make it user friendly for all. Many people have been working on this and the global collaboration has been amazing.
Of particular importance has been the work of Goh Boon Jin who has only very recently released the very cool Smoothboard 1.0 software http://www.smoothboard.net/ .
This software takes the project from a beta product with possibilities, to a real alternative to the expensive commercial systems schools in particular struggle to fund.
The Mac users are catered for through the great work of Uwe Schmidt who uses a java platform to supply similar functionality to the Windows version http://www.uweschmidt.org/wiimote-whiteboard .
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