Beim Thema "virtuelle Zusammenarbeit" bzw. #virtualwhiteboard steht für mich im Vordergrund: #DSGVO-Konformität, Verschlüsselung, Medienintegration, einfache Bedienung, Tauglichkeit für den #Unterricht, Skalierbarkeit zu tragbaren Preisen sowie die Unabhängigkeit von einem #SmartBoard-Hersteller. Etwas Besseres als #Conceptboard habe ich noch nicht gefunden. Falls jemand noch eine Idee hat, her damit.

https://conceptboard.com/de

#collaboration #teaching #onlinecourses #courses #sperber_education

The biggest missing piece of my remote work experience is that feeling of being in a small conference room with 3-5 other people, whiteboarding to solve a problem.

I've tried a bunch of things to try and recreate that experience while being remote.

The closest I have come is four people, with #VR headsets, using #Workrooms (https://www.meta.com/work/workrooms/) and the Virtual Whiteboard it has.

I'm a bit of a skeptic about these kinds of things. I'm old(er) and grumpy and not at all prone to jumping on a fad/bandwagon etc. I firmly believe most "new" things are just improvements on old things, and often in dumb ways.

However, the more I meet in Workrooms and collaborate with others on a small scale, the more it feels decent. I can squint at it and think, this could be "normal" one day and function well enough to let me forget how I am doing something and focus on what I am doing.

What made me think of this was yet again looking around at thermal sensors to try and make a small thermal camera to mount on my headset that would function like this:

You'd use a smooth wall, or a window (or even an actual whiteboard) and then use your finger (or a thermal pen) to draw on the surface, and the thermal camera would see the trace amounts of heat your finger imparts to the surface, and then "draw" that on the whiteboard in the room.

The current method of using the controller turned around is .. ok(ish)... but it still doesn't feel natural.

Although I will say this week, I discovered that the tip on the end of the controller for the #QuestPro, and the large "keyboard/mouse mat" on my desk make a surprisingly good combination.. felt nice to write on the squishy material with the nib.

#virtualwhiteboard #vr #questpro