annotating PowerPoint slides with a 'pen'

[Rob]

While waiting for my bamboo, I hooked up and tried a Digital Scribe (a
wireless pen) that was available. The experience made me start wondering.

There are three tasks that annotation can perform for me:
adding to an existing slide -- arrows, lines, text, etc
handdrawing an entirely new slide in response to a question
capturing class expectations in handwritten text

I had trouble knowing where my pen was unless I wrote with it. I did better
drawing with a mouse, which showed me a cursor when MB1 was up, and which
wrote when MB1 was pressed.

So I thought I would sanity-check my hopes. Is it reasonable to expect to
be able to do the above tasks, even with a pen that gets great reviews? That
is, will I be pushing the application for a drawing pen beyond what it is
expected to do?

Thanks,
Rob