Pssst...closer, I don't want anyone hearing this whiteboard secret.
I'm an old chalk pusher—blackboards, greenboards—I've pushed chalk on them all. So, let me share a little secret with you—when I go to conferences to check out the whiteboard solutions from mimio to Promethean to Panasonic, I'm really SMART, even eInstruction has no clue, nor eBeam, although Hitachi and PolyVision may have figured me out—not sure.
With finger or wand, I pretend I'm back at the board in front of a bunch of 1st-graders—and I draw something. Usually it's cats, frogs, a characature of me, and if I have time, it's an elephant.
Everyone is thinking—hey he can draw—but what I'm really doing is getting an idea of what it takes to write on, and work the darn things. All the cool software stuff is wonderful, but if it's not responsive under the pressure it takes to draw, well that tells me something.
I do it every time I get to try a board, too. If this secret gets out, I'll know it for sure. Someone at a whiteboard solution booth will ask me how they've done on my whiteboard drawing test—and I'll know you've been talking! Loose lips sink ships—and mums the word.
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