The bigger tablet that I spoke about in the last blog still is not giving me the functionality that I had hoped. With a little bit of begging my husband agreed to let me use his motion computing tablet pc. It is a couple years old and still runs windows XP so there was an initial challenge to getting the correct software that will make my lectures run. Unfortunately this pc tablet doesn't have enough ram to record with so I need to record it on my mac. This means I would need to get software to do a screen share between the PC and my mac to make the video for each lecture.
Fortunately at Gunn we have awesome tech people who knew exactly what to do. There are two programs that I was introduced to that would allow me to do this without any out of pocket expense. The first was safari (just need to input the IP address into the web browser and it connects!), the other is VNC Chicken (you need to download it but it will give the same functionality allowing you to screen share).
The exciting thing about the tablet PC is that it is sooooooo easy to write on in comparison to the other tablets I've tried so far, and it looks great. The only draw back to this process is the delay that occurs on the mac where the screen share is being recorded. I haven't played enough with it yet to know if it is really going to be a problem, but I will write again if it is.
Oh and thank you to Mr. Foster from TechSmith for correcting me on Jing. It turns out that Jing is only $15/year so I misinterpreted what I read online. I think I will give it a go as $15 is affordable. :)
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