Design Goals

• A simple and fast application that can be used on a PDA class CPU.
• Make an easy implementation on Java CDC (Personal Profile) possible.
• As little eye candy as possible.
  • No icons, wizards or windows. Recreating a computer desktop on a blackboard is probably not a good idea. (If you want that use a large monitor.)
  • Applets (if implemented) could run in rectangular areas but would not be able to open windows (see above). This would not prevent an Applet from rendering internal frames or displaying a remote computer desktop through VNC, when that's a desirable exception, it would just prevent bad desktop habits from invading the school board by default.
  • My preference is to have only black & white graphics.
• Import and export of content to and from MMC cards (e.g. to put homework on the board quickly or to store a lesson for later use).
• Support for USB scanners to put external documents on the board conveniently.
  • Scanning of checkered paper should use the scanned grid to align the scan and remove it for display, replacing it with the rendered grid of the board.