To be a little more playful I’ve mounted fully interactive draughts (checkers) games and even had groups use a snakes-and-ladders board to support a quiz. The whiteboard is prepared with a background image of a game board (I’ve used snakes and ladders but it could be Ludo, Backgammon or anything else you fancy just for fun). I place the required number of counters on top of the background image (or to the side) in an appropriate ready position for the start of a game. On my desktop I keep open a PowerPoint slide as a holding station for images or text that I may want to place in the active whiteboard. For example, when playing a board game I have ready made a set of all possible combinations of two dice and, selecting at random, I can copy and paste straight into the whiteboard – the effect is very realistic and satisfying.

Now this only proves the feasibiity, but you can use your imagination to extrapolate how you might use it – wiring diagrams, sequencing exercises, building a hierarchy, creating a psychometric diagram and so on and so on. If you want to play in the sandbox let me know, and I’ll be happy to organise a free session if there is sufficient interest. Most of all, however, I’d like to hear how others have used an object-oriented whiteboard to give rein to their creativity.