[AG-TECH] Sharing Handwritten Presentation Slides on AG ?

daagarwal DAAgarwal at lbl.gov
Tue Aug 19 14:25:57 CDT 2003


Cindy,
have yon considered having your instructor use a tablet PC
for real time handwritten notes and equations?  I am experimenting
with one now. It seems good for on-the-fly handwritten equations
and notes.
Deb

Cindy Sievers wrote:

> The camera has a zoom feature that would allow for a smaller font, but 
> then you would need to make your document size smaller.  We mostly use 
> it for handwritten notes - I make the instructor use a fairly wide pen 
> and it works ok.  He needed some way to write long equations out for 
> students to see, it is supplemented with a power point slide set from 
> another video source.
> 
> I was using a Hauppauge video card, but I just switched to a winnov videum.
> 
> At 10:42 AM 8/19/2003 -0400, William D. Hamblen wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Cindy Sievers wrote:
>>
>> > We use a document camera (Canon Visualizer RE-450X) as one of the video
>> > inputs.  The speaker/instructor can write slides, notes, etc  and it is
>> > transmitted as just another video stream.
>>
>> We have a document camera too but I haven't yet gotten around to trying
>> what you described.  Is the quality good enough for, say, 10 or 12 point
>> type?  What resolution does your video capture card run at?
>>
>>  - Bill
>>
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