Algodoo for Education integrated and optimized for SMART Board

SMART and Algoryx have teamed up to enhance Algodoo into a multi-touch application for the SMART Board interactive Whiteboard. This is the first time a 3rd party developer has taken the SMART Board SDK and created an optimized version for the SB800 series of interactive whiteboards.

This is an important step for making ALGODOO available for children, students, educators, parents and everyone else around the world that are interested in teaching and learning real physics.

The Algodoo for Education includes:

• Multitouch supporting multi-user drawing, interaction and editing
• Pen gestures for creating objects, interact with scenes and control simulations
• Full support for SMART Board pen colors, erasers and gestures

For a complete list of features and tools read more below.

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Through close cooperation and development support by SMART, Algodoo is now deeply integrated with all SMART Boards. It is specially optimized to take advantage of the unique dual user, dual sketch, dual touch functionality of the new SB800 series of interactive whiteboards. Particular integration points include:

For all SMART Boards, single or multi-touch:

• Unique menu structure when Algodoo detects a SMART Board is connected.

• Movable toolbars for a better ergonomic for both teachers and students

• Black pen mapped to objects "fixed to the background". Objects created with the black pen are unaffected by gravity or objects that collide into them.

• Water pen. Objects created with the blue pen instantly turns to water.

• Objects creates with red or green pens are drawn in their respective colors. Color mapping can also be turned off.

• One user can pan a scene by touching the background and dragging their finger in any direction

• Users can cut an object by striking through an object with the pen and then drawing a hook at the end.

• Users can erase objects with either, their palm, the eraser from the pen tray, or by gesturing a line entirely through an object with the pen.

• Pen gestures are mapped to pause, play, rewind and fwd buttons, allowing users to rewind and replay scenes with ease.

• The Algodoo Teacher Edition also includes built in tutorials that get you started in a few minutes.

For SMARTboard SB800 and other SMART Boards that support multitouch:

• Two users can sketch at the same time

• Two users can move objects at the same time

• One user can draw while another user has single touch capabilities.

• One user can zoom the scene through 2 finger zoom gesture.

• One user can rotate and scale objects by touching an object in two places.

• Clone feature. An object can be cloned by touching and holding an object with one finger, and drawing across the object with a pen.

Algoryx Simulation along with the Algodoo software is a SMART Board Application Elite, optimized and designed for SMART Board interactive whiteboards.

SMART is the world’s leading provider of interactive whiteboards*. The company introduced the world’s first interactive whiteboard in 1991 and remains the global product category leader, providing easy-to-use, integrated products and services that improve the way the world works and learns. For more than 20 years, innovation and commitment to excellence have been at the core of our business. SMART help educators achieve better results with technology products that support student-centered learning. SMART help businesses become more productive with easy-to-use collaboration solutions that enable better results. Their success is driven by a deep commitment to and engagement with both the education and business communities.

Today, with more than 1.6 million SMART Board interactive whiteboards in classrooms and offices worldwide, and more than 30 million users actively learning and collaborating with SMART products every day, SMART products can be found in every Canadian province, every U.S. state, every Local Authority in the UK and more than 175 countries worldwide.

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*According to Futuresource Consulting, a leading independent research company that has tracked interactive whiteboard sales for more than nine years.

See the “Algodoo goes to school”-video for an example on how you can use Algodoo on a SMART Board in a classroom.