Exploring the Dabbleboard Tool by Kindlelab

[Lucy Barrow]

After watching the movie posted by Judy O'Connell by Rich White, I visited his Smithsonian space on ReactionGrid to test Dabbleboard, a Kindlelab project.

By going to a Dabbleboard page in your browser, you can type, draw, import images and even snapshots of documents which are then transferred to your board in-world. In this case, it was a board in the Smithsonian space on ReactionGrid.

At the time of testing, my internet connection was running a little slowly, so I wasn't able to test the image feature. However, I was very impressed with the other features, including the way I could use my Tablet PC with Dabbleboard's Freehand tool.

The facility to create on one Dabbleboard which is then transferred to boards in multiple virtual spaces is a great feature too. We are exploring the idea of a private OpenSim grid and a public space on ReactionGrid. Therefore, we could create content on our Dabbleboard which would then be transferred to the boards in both worlds.

I can see some lovely uses for this tool: A noticeboard, brainstorming space, etc... Should all go to plan with our school project, it will be one tool I'll be keen to follow up!