Imagination Cubed Web 2.0 Tool Review

This week, I will review a Web 2.0 tool for critical thinking and problem solving skills. General Electric's Imagination Cubed website allow you to invite your friends to draw and type.
I have created a video cast but I am having hard time converting this file to upload on to this blog so please go view it here

http://www.screencast.com/users/yoorimon/folders/Jing/media/858c1557-09b0-47af-b16a-00305970dab8

 Imagination Cubed is one of the simplest, most user friendly collaborative whiteboard Web 2.0 tool available online. Imagination Cubed allows multiple users to interact with one drawing screen simultaneously. It is a simple flash engine which delivers fast performance and the ability for multiple users to collaborate together in real time. You don't need to leave the website to invite friends to draw online and even just to chat online.


The various tool box offers not only the pen tool but also these easy to use drawing tools.

• Shapes: square, circle, triangle, star, diamond, and more
• Stampers: smiley, heart, arrow, asterisk, explosion, flower, swirl, vortex, man, woman, speech, plus cloud
• Different lines: change the line type and its thickness
• Text tool: type in many different font options
• Background tool: change colors or pattern of the background

One of the greatest option they offer is the Replay option, which allows the animation to be replayed from the beginning. It almost act as a simple flash animation that can be replayed over and over again. 

To share your and your collaborators drawings, print and send the drawings to others. The recipient of you drawings can replay and see how that picture was created.


So far, the only downside of this collaborative whiteboard tool is that you can't import your own pictures to work from it. You must start each time with a clean slate and have to build it up from there.