<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Very cool Roland - thanks for that.<div>I am looking very closely at Google Docs as a possible solution to some issues we have here.</div><div>Is anyone using Google Docs as their "official" school collaboration system, not just their own personal use?</div><div>Cheers</div><div>Cameron</div><div><div><div>On 27/03/2009, at 1:17 AM, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Here is a fascinating bit of hot news, fresh off my Twitter US friends. Google Docs now includes a whiteboard and it is built on SVG. Some of you probably read about the interesting work by Bill Kerr with SVG and that with Inkscape, a cool and free open source SVG drawing program we have used in our classrooms. This is going to lend some weight behind the standard. <br><br>I have been involved with some fascinating collaboration using Google Docs with different teams editing the same page, at the same time. I am now interested to try it out with this new function.<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> The team and technology behind Insert Drawing originally came from the startup Tonic Systems, which Google acquired in 2007. The drawing feature that we've built relies heavily on a relatively new capability in browsers: the ability to render vector graphics. We use the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/">SVG</a> (scalable vector graphics) standard to accomplish this in most browsers and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Markup_Language">VML</a> (vector markup language) where SVG is not available. <br clear="all"> </div></blockquote><br> <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/03/drawing-on-your-creativity-in-docs.html">http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/03/drawing-on-your-creativity-in-docs.html</a><br><br>Regards Roland<br> <br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<br> _______________________________________________ <br> <a href="http://www.edulists.com.au"> http://www.edulists.com.au </a> - FAQ, resources, subscribe, unsubscribe <br> Open Source Mailing List kindly supported by <br> <a href="http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au"> http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au </a> - Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority and <br> <a href="http://www.vitta.org.au"> http://www.vitta.org.au </a> - VITTA Victorian Information Technology Teachers Association Inc</blockquote></div><br></div><p></p><p><b>Important - </b>This email and any attachments may be confidential. If received in error, please contact us and delete all copies. Before opening or using attachments check them for viruses and defects. Regardless of any loss, damage or consequence, whether caused by the negligence of the sender or not, resulting directly or indirectly from the use of any attached files our liability is limited to resupplying any affected attachments. Any representations or opinions expressed are those of the individual sender, and not necessarily those of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.</p>
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