Extending IOS’s Collaboration via Web-Enabled Whiteboards
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Christopher Egert, Mary Flanagan, Deborah Walters, University at Buffalo, United States
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet, in San Antonio, Texas Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Chesapeake, VA
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the development of a web-based asynchronous whiteboard system used as part of an online collaborative system. The whiteboard system has been designed to perform in a manner similar to that of threaded newsgroup systems; users can post new whiteboard messages and reply to others via a content layering mechanism. As part of the whiteboard's development, we needed an easy to use method for both storing whiteboard content and defining the relationships between layers used in a reply. In order to accommodate these needs, we decided to use the Extensible Markup Language (XML) (World Wide Web Consortium 99). Using XML, we were able to define a language capable of expressing both content and relationships within the whiteboard application. This paper explains the need for the whiteboard system within our online collaborative system, the functionality of the whiteboard, and design choices pertaining to the implementation. The paper also examines initial assessment and additional evaluation plans for the whiteboard system.
Citation
Egert, C., Flanagan, M. & Walters, D. (2000). Extending IOS’s Collaboration via Web-Enabled Whiteboards. In Proceedings of WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (pp. 158-161). San Antonio, Texas: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 19, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/6354/.
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