Re: more on whiteboards

["Daniel L. MacIsaac" <Dan.MacIsaac@NAU.EDU>]

> This semester I've used little of whiteboards or blackboards.  I've been
> using a VGA projection system and a pen/pad pointing device.  All my lectures
> are saved to htm files with links to images of my lecture notes.  I then
> place them on a web page for student access.  The pen pointing device takes
> some getting used to, and my penmanship is not near the quality as on a
> blackboard, but students don't seem to mind.  After two weeks of poor
> penmanship, I gave my students the option of my using the VGA system and
> posting the lectures, or going back to the blackboard.  There was no contest,
> they wanted the lecture notes on the web site.  It also allows me to face
> students, as suggested in an earlier post, plus it's easy to insert graphs
> and figures into notes for discussion.
>
> Bob Carlson
Bob:

What is the manufacturer of the pen/pad and the name of your software?  Can
we view your notes online somewhere?  I'm interested in trying your system,
or at least assessing it.

Dan M

Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern AZ Univ
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