How do I setup transparent (NoFill) stationary in OneNote?

[DickHill]

I am a teacher and I want to use OneNote and an LCD projector like an
overhead projector and a transparency. I want to be able to see the Windows
Desktop, or an Internet Explorer webpage, or anything else beneath my OneNote
stationary. By using the Tablet Pen on the transparent stationary, I will be
able to highlight certain aspects of whatever is being displayed at the time.

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

I don't think such a thing exists in OneNote.

Are you looking to just use the pen to notate on the screen? Or do you
want to save your notations? You're probably looking for more of a Tablet
application.

The experience pack
(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/default.mspx) might have
something to help.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

DickHill shared these words of wisdom:

I am a teacher and I want to use OneNote and an LCD projector
like an overhead projector and a transparency. I want to be
able to see the Windows Desktop, or an Internet Explorer
webpage, or anything else beneath my OneNote stationary.

This does not work.
For the Windows desktop there is "ink Desktop" (part of the
"Enhancement Pack") but this only works on the desktop. It will not
work in any other application (incl. a browser).
I have bought the TabletPC especially for my lectures. But I have not
yet across any kind of software allow for what you want to do.

This is not what you want, but it works fine:
In PowerPoint presentations one can make annotations on the slides
using the pen.
One can even save the annotations in the presentation.
And one easily open a "whiteboard" page and draw and write on that.

So it perhaps be a workaround to prepare a presentation with captured
screenshot instead of demonstrating working in the browser directly.

Rainald

 

[Jonathan]

I plan to teach with the tablet like this, too, and am working out the
details. Mr. Hill, I hope you will contact me directly so we can compare
details. I expect to work in some cases outside of OneNote with PDFAnnotator.
But I also assumed that I could mark (ink) on the images "printed" to
OneNote. I will test this and post again. Right now I am rushing to get the
classroom ready for the students coming in a week! (I use OneNote2007.)

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Jonathan shared these words of wisdom:

I plan to teach with the tablet like this, too, and am working
out the details. Mr. Hill, I hope you will contact me directly
so we can compare details.

May I kindly ask to keep things in the NewsGroup?

As you might have seen from my reply, I for one am interested in the
issue too (having bought the TabletPC for academic teaching).
IMHO it would be better to discuss the question in the open instead by
private mail.

Rainald

 

[Jonathan]

Rainald,
I agree -- with one point: The interface here is a problem: often the whole
carefully constructed text of a reply or new post is lost, and the forum
entry process [from a reply notice message] sometimes loses the memory of
the specific message it was bringing you to see. The post entrry box cursor
often jumps to the top iof the message without warning. Complaints aside, I
also feel that so few of us care about this subject... but I would be glad to
do the exchange here and I will just use OneNote pages to craft my text. I
make so many typos!

I bought a wireless projector to allow inking to show up on the screen in
real time. I expect that some of that inking will be in PDF Annotator
(Grahl-software.com, a German company, I think (Swiss perhaps? Can't remember
the city of origin...)

Anyway, with elementary students the detailed content is less important than
the intensity of interaction with the process, as they are learning to be
learners.

I used to make a lot of overheads as we discussed subjects and writing in
general. Then I had to find them for later. OneNote may help here. I will say
that the containers get in the way a bit. I always want to make a new thought
into a new container (is there any benefit to this? Just a superstition?) but
the new container has to start at a wide space from the previous, and screen
space is at a premium.

Anyway, please share your experiences, too. I will try to projector later
today, and write back. I hope Mr. Hill does the same! There are so few of us
working on this.

Jonathan Rawle