[AG-TECH] electronic whiteboards

[Ulrich Schwenn]

Hi Cindy,

I am not (yet) an AG user but prefer commercial H.323 equipment.
For your problem that does not matter.
We set LaTex to produce a PS file which we then split with gs 
(ghostscript) and appropriate parameters into straight numbered jpeg 
files. These you can import to PowerPoint with an simple to write macro 
you have to write once in visual basic (directly from PPT).
As for the notes, look up on the smarttechnology pages a new piece 
called sympodium. This is a 15" flat touchscreen with the full 
functionality of a standard smartboard, which your prof could use 
alternatively. One can write and draw on slides, store those modified 
slides in a new PPT or slide by slide.
For the distribution we use tightVNC, but probably you could arrange the 
AG PPT tool to do this for you. If you have smarts on all sites you 
should be able to use that whiteboard from both or multiple sites.
Have fun

Ulli Schwenn

Dr. Ulrich Schwenn
Head of Multimedia and Videoconferencing Group
Computing Center Garching
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft &
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching
GERMANY
Phone: +49 89 3299 1371
Fax: +49 89 3299 1301
e-mail: schwenn at rzg.mpg.de
web: http://www.rzg.mpg.de

Cindy Sievers wrote:

> Has anyone used an electronic whiteboard on the Access Grid to share 
> notes?
> What are the issues associated with this?  What other alternatives are 
> there? We are going to do a class over the grid and the instructor 
> wants to be able to annotate and write notes on a whiteboard for 
> remote and local students to see. He would really prefer to write on 
> his slides (which are in LaTex and need to be converted to PowerPoint 
> - another issue - is this possible?).  Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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