Re: [Phys-l] presentation graphics (was whiteboarding ...)

[Bill Nettles <bnettles@uu.edu>]

I have "smart" boards that I can write on with my finger, import graphics, select and rotate/enlarge/discard, etc.  It's a GREAT scribble tool, or I can prepare things beforehand and then scribble on them.  The results can be captured to PDFs and posted online so that students aren't so absorbed in note taking that they miss the physics (it's hard to get them to believe in that).

Short-throw projectors are common place now so they aren't abhorrently expensive, and you're not creating huge shadows.  If I want to capture a web page on a whim, it's easy to do.

Downside to this: I get used to it and it's a lot of work when I give a talk somewhere that doesn't have the smart board. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: phys-l-bounces@www.phys-l.org [mailto:phys-l-
> bounces@www.phys-l.org] On Behalf Of John Denker
>  I need to be able to scribble, so I need
> something like
>   -- chalkboard or whiteboard
>   -- tablet PC
>   -- blank acetate foils plus pens plus overhead projector
>   -- large-format paper flip-charts