Graphics Tablet and Advancing Slides

[edward.slattery]

I am using a WACOM grpahics tablet in a college classroom and it works
great with blank slides essentially creating a white board with a
memory. I love it.

However, when I prepare slides with information on them and just want
to mark up on those or do some calculations on the slide, it advances
to the next slide. I don't want it to advance until I am ready. It
doesn't do this at home, just at school.

Help.

Ed

 

[Jonathan]

Professor Slattery,

Are you using PPT2003 or 2007?
This is what I want to do with my tablet or my WACOM. I have one of the
small 4x5 units, and I might take that to school (5th Grade) to get the
students to do some mark-up at the front of the class. They also use my
tablet.

I have been asking here about "inking" but I wondered if Powerpoint 2007
would be very inking-friendly. When I try the blank slide as a background in
PPT2007, I get the benefit you described. The good news is that when I ink on
a slide with other elements it does not advance. In addition, on my tablet I
can use the pen to make a box or invoke any other drawing tool (I haven't
tried them all.)

I'm working tonight on slides for a geography lesson and plan to mark some
things in real time. (See related post)

Jonathan Rawle
(e-mail address removed)12.hi.us
(e-mail address removed)

 

[slats]

Jonathan,

I am just thrilled that someone understands my problem. I have emailed
microsoft to see what they can tell me but I am not that hopeful of a reply,
yet alone with an answer to the problem.

I am using PPT 2003 with windows XP.

In WORD, I had to purchase a little program that would allow me to markup a
student's paper. It was inexpensive but works fine. It's recognition isn't
as good as WORD's but I don't need it for that.

The real solution is a tablet PC but that's expensive.

Ed

 

[slats]

Steve, When I go into Kiosk mode, I lose the ability to mark-up the slides.
The pen icon disappears.

I see how to add navigation buttons and they work fine but the whole point
is to be able to mark up the slides.

I have also written to WACOM and they just got back to me as I was wondering
if the pen might be faulty. They have given me some tricks to see if that is
the problem. I'll let you know.

Ed