New web resource for interactive whiteboard fans
SMART Technologies has an undisputed market leadership in Spain and groupVision is proud to be its exclusive distributor since 1997. During this time our company has created a number of dispersed web sites in support of Iberian reseller companies and several user communities. Early in 2005, a moodle platform was created www.aprenderconSMART.org and has ever since become very useful in supporting a growing community of SMART Board interactive whiteboard users. A few years after several regional versions such as SMART ekin Ikasi or Aprendre amb SMART were created with the same goal. Two years ago groupVision has created a “welcome pack” for SMART users that was also published as a web resource. More recently, SMART has decided to expand its own community site, the “SMART Exchange” and created a Spanish version, the biggest interactive whiteboard community in the world. After careful consideration we have decided to keep our original user communities but repositioned to support on-line training programs, therefore taking advantage of moodle’s strengths as a popular LMS (Learning Management System) widely used in Spain and Portugal.
“Some of our customers actually complained that we had too many web sites and too dispersed, so we felt that people would like to have a single URL where all SMART related product information in Spain could be easily found.”
This new web site - PizarrasInteractivas.com – is a great example of group collaboration. It is the result of the joint efforts of a dispersed team, with a programmer/web developer in Santiago de Compostela, webmasters in Lisbon and a web designer in Madrid. Using groupVision’s collaborative project management tools built on Google Apps it was possible to create this site with work being done within a 24 hours time frame, every day. The result is here and we are all very pleased with this accomplishment. Let’s hope our users will like it as well!
