Not sure who this could be handy for there, but user Pieter Jacobs posted this PPT file on a local educational forum that I visit, Klascement (Dutch language pun on class and document filing).

It’s a small PowerPoint presentation that consists of a number of grids and lines that you can use to beam onto a digital whiteboard. You can get grids, lines or even sheet music to note on:

A ditital whiteboard is a technology that allows you to take regular meeting notes, but record, capture and store them afterwards for use on a pc. Combined with OCR software, a digital whiteboard makes it easy to manipulate your notes and save them in word processing documents or emails.

Some digital whiteboard technology also allows you to use pressure-sensitive pens, or manipulate virtual objects (text or images) right on the board itself. The idea of the digital whiteboard is part of the larger concept of the paperless office.

If you can spare 10 minutes, be sure to watch this video of a the INTOI project set up by students of the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. This hardware-software solution serves as a digital hybrid of a whiteboard and a multimeda installation. Pretty cool.

Of course, if you don’t use a fully digitized whiteboard, you can still use this PPT as guides on a regular whiteboard if you like. It’ll help you keep those lines straight, not squiggly, as you make your presentation for that new killer app your company just needs to start coding now.

Download it by clicking the PowerPoint icon below.