Re:LHC Physics Center bans Powerpoint, switches to whiteboar...
by SkyMarshal on Friday March 07, 2014 @11:17PM
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My startup is looking into interactive whiteboards as a replacement/compliment to regular ones. We'd like the ability to save our whiteboard work to disk, for one. I'm tasked with figuring this out but have no idea what to look for for our use case - size, resolution, integrated WLAN, etc? What do you guys use?
Re:LHC Physics Center bans Powerpoint, switches to whiteboar...
by keithpeter on Saturday March 08, 2014 @07:10AM
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Look at sibling comment and decide if you really need an interactive whiteboard or if simply using a normal dry wipe and taking photos and then tagging those in a photo gallery program systematically somewhere will be good enough storage/retrieval. My students still take photos of key screens even though I email out a pdf of the IW screens after the lesson.
If you decide you really do need the IW, then try to find a local school/college that will let you play with theirs for an hour after classes. You will get a good idea of what the software can do, and you can find out about the drawbacks of various makes.
One concrete advantage of an IW might be annotating actual screens. Most IW software automatically grabs screen of driving computer then allows you to write over the static image. All the IW software I have used (smartboard, active edition, the dolphin ones) allow saving of whiteboard stacks as PDFs.
Re:LHC Physics Center bans Powerpoint, switches to whiteboar...
by ghaff on Saturday March 08, 2014 @12:26AM
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I haven't looked at these recently but I've never been too impressed when I have. These days, the recording part of a regular whiteboard is easy; just pull out your smartphone camera.
I'm a teacher, we have those in all our classrooms. You can prepare some sparse screens in advance, literally just starter points or sentences/images. Then annotate as audience throw up ideas. IW software allows export to pdf so email/upload during talk.