[AG-TECH] electronic whiteboards

[Ulrich Schwenn]

Here is a link to smartboards
http://www.smarttech.com/products/sympodium/index.asp

Ulrich Schwenn wrote:

> 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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>> Cindy Sievers           Los Alamos National Laboratory
>> sievers at lanl.gov        Group CCS-1 MS B287
>> tel:505.665.6602        Advanced Computing
>> fax:505.665.4939        Los Alamos, NM 87544
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