![]() ![]() If you are recording the lecture, you also need screen capturing software. I tried a couple that are available (and pretty cheap) in the Mac App Store: DemoPro and ScreenBrush. You also need an app that lets you draw on your screen with a mouse. Unfortunately, I don’t think it is possible to this with a regular stylus, although I haven’t looked into it. I’m using an original iPad Pro with the original pencil. ![]() To do this, you need a Mac running Catalina and an Apple-Pencil-compatible iPad. I was particularly interested in seeing whether I could take advantage of the macOS’s new Sidecar feature, which allows an iPad to serve as an external display (and supports tablet-like input through the Apple Pencil). I was never really able to get this to work: I would constantly toggle out of the annotation mode accidentally. I make all my slides in Keynote, so I played around a bit with the native annotations in the Keynote iPad app (i.e., using the iPad as a Keynote remote).I have not revisited it but I would certainly encourage you to check it out (I believe it has a free mode so this is pretty low-risk). Doceri is certainly a possibility it has been a few years, and it’s possible that it has improved.Fortunately, the same method works well for recording lectures and posting them to YouTube.Īt the outset, I considered a couple of things that didn’t really work: I came up with a good working solution, then the COVID-19 outbreak hit and I had to move everything online. This spring, I was back to teaching second-semester sophomore organic chemistry and it seemed like a good time to revisit my options. I spent a few years teaching mostly lab classes and put this sort of stuff aside. For example, it has poor Apple Pencil support (at least as of a few years ago), and I never loved the way it would freeze the screen when you wanted to write something. This worked pretty well through many iterations of lecture classes, but I was never completely satisfied with Doceri it does its job, but there were small nagging problems. I’m a bit too uncompromising as a Mac/Keynote user (this should work with PowerPoint too), and I’d much rather use an iPad. Miami has installed smartboards in most of our lecture halls at this point, but I’ve never used them. This provides a bunch of advantages: it makes the students draw structures, which I think is important it controls the pace of the lecture and it substantially shortens lecture prep time by cutting down on all the ChemDraw. When teaching standard organic chemistry courses, I leave lots of blank spaces (e.g., for mechanisms). This post covers some of the best free software that allow you to draw on the screen on your PC.I like to design my lectures around slides that can be annotated. An overlay is created to help you draw over any running software, opened window, application, etc., on the desktop screen. You can use a highlighter or pen to draw, write something on the screen, or mark areas. It can come in handy during presentations, online meetings, video conferences, and more. There exist many free drawing software, but the feature to draw directly on the desktop screen is not present there. Therefore, we created this post to help you serve this purpose. This post includes 5 free software to draw on Windows 11/10 screen, Windows Ink Screen Sketch has already been covered elsewhere on this site. GInk is one of the best on-screen annotation software for Windows 11/10. It has three features that catch the attention. You can move annotations or drawings that you drew from one area to another. The feature to show/hide all the annotations is also there. Later, you can use annotation tools again to begin from your left off.Īlso, you can enable the mouse pointer to use desktop and other applications without losing the annotations. It has 10 different pens for on-screen drawing. By default, only 5 pens are visible on its toolbar, but you can access Settings to show more pens on its toolbar. You can download this open-source software from GitHub. After running this software, you can click its system tray icon to access the available tools. You will see different color pens, an eraser tool to delete an annotation, an eye icon to show/hide annotations, a Pan tool to move annotations, screenshot capture to take a full-screen snapshot, or a specific area, undo tool, etc. You can also access Settings of this software by right-clicking on its system tray icon and using Options.
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