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

Robert Olson olson at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Aug 19 14:35:41 CDT 2003


do you have a way to share these in realtime?

does it work well?

--bob

At 12:25 PM 8/19/2003 -0700, daagarwal wrote:
>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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>>
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