Commisioned by Kennisnet, the Dutch national e-educational service provider for schools, I participate in a programme of the Faculty of Education of the Hogeschool Utrecht to introduce school ICT-coordinators to the pedagogical use of IWBs.

As these trainings take place across the country naturally I am confronted with a variey of IWB hard- and software. Consequently I try to include materials developed for various file formats in my presentations. Hence I keenly follow the interoperability issue with regards to IWBs. It is with renewed hope :-) that I pass on the message published at opencourceschools below:

European governments and organisations are helping to make it easier for schools and colleges to share resources and use interactive whiteboards.
Becta has made a technical specification available for a common file format for interactive whiteboards, and a viewer application and further support will follow in autumn 2009.

Check out the full post here

NB. Next to a course on Web 2.0 for Modern Languages we also run an international course on the use of IWBs in specific disciplines.