This isn't really about building a course so I apologise in advance. I've been thinking of buying a tablet but I want one which can be used with a stylus to create free-hand drawings and fonts like so many of you use in your courses.
I love the free hand drawings but I suck at doing them with a mouse and so I was hoping people might have recommendations. If not a tablet how are people creating them???
There haven't been any responses to this, and the exact same request/question popped through my mind today. Kat, did you ever buy a tablet? And does anyone have any thoughts on/experience with tablets?
I did buy a tablet 2 days ago. I went with the motorola xoom. They all seemed pretty similar and a friend had recommended it. The main reason I finally bought one was I found a product in the Android market called AutoCad by Autodesk which is a drawing program for android devices. I tested it out on my Samsung Galaxy S and it seemed pretty good so now I just need to buy a nifty stylus and then I can go crazy!
Our team had bought a tablet recently. I would like to know some thing regarding the tablet.
If you draw anything using the tablet from within PowerPoint, will you get it as a PowerPoint shape (which can be given fill and other format options we give for normal PowerPoint shapes) ?
Hmmm.... One of the articulate guys might know this better than I do. I thought that you had to use a drawing program and then the drawings you do via the tablet become image files. I didn't think you could use it with PowerPoint from a tablet???? If you could that would be great.
With this we are able to draw images directly into PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and most of the MS Office tools.
Given below are some screenshots from an e-learning course, in which I have drawn a few characters using this tablet.
But the problem that we face is that the strokes that we make, using a tablet is not a powerpoint shape in ppt. And we cannot select a stroke and a PowerPoint shape (or image) together. Please see below screenshot:
All the "Ink #" are strokes using a tablet. Picture 19 is a png image. In the selection pane, you will see a line separating the strokes and other powerpoint items (similar to the case when we insert a flash movie in articulate). And we cannot select all of the items together. What I have done here is selected each stroke (using the selection pane and shift key) and then copy pasted this as a png image.
Do anyone know if there is a way to draw something in powerpoint to get it as a powerpoint shape? Or convert it to a powerpoint shape after drawing?
OMG..!!! Thank you so much Phil...!!! We were badly in need of this feature...never new it was so simple..!!! Looking forward to make some good drawings now...
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There haven't been any responses to this, and the exact same request/question popped through my mind today. Kat, did you ever buy a tablet? And does anyone have any thoughts on/experience with tablets?
Thanks!
Hey Kristen,
I did buy a tablet 2 days ago. I went with the motorola xoom. They all seemed pretty similar and a friend had recommended it. The main reason I finally bought one was I found a product in the Android market called AutoCad by Autodesk which is a drawing program for android devices. I tested it out on my Samsung Galaxy S and it seemed pretty good so now I just need to buy a nifty stylus and then I can go crazy!
Good luck with your shopping
Our team had bought a tablet recently. I would like to know some thing regarding the tablet.
If you draw anything using the tablet from within PowerPoint, will you get it as a PowerPoint shape (which can be given fill and other format options we give for normal PowerPoint shapes) ?
Hmmm.... One of the articulate guys might know this better than I do. I thought that you had to use a drawing program and then the drawings you do via the tablet become image files. I didn't think you could use it with PowerPoint from a tablet???? If you could that would be great.
Does anyone else know????
If you use a traditional tablet, you can draw in ppt, using scribble or bezier curves
NOt sure about using a tablet PC but it should be possible with the right software
This is the tablet we use - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aiptek-SlimTablet-600U-Premium-Digitizer/dp/B001IX3YUQ
With this we are able to draw images directly into PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and most of the MS Office tools.
Given below are some screenshots from an e-learning course, in which I have drawn a few characters using this tablet.
But the problem that we face is that the strokes that we make, using a tablet is not a powerpoint shape in ppt. And we cannot select a stroke and a PowerPoint shape (or image) together. Please see below screenshot:
All the "Ink #" are strokes using a tablet. Picture 19 is a png image. In the selection pane, you will see a line separating the strokes and other powerpoint items (similar to the case when we insert a flash movie in articulate). And we cannot select all of the items together. What I have done here is selected each stroke (using the selection pane and shift key) and then copy pasted this as a png image.
Do anyone know if there is a way to draw something in powerpoint to get it as a powerpoint shape? Or convert it to a powerpoint shape after drawing?
If you use your tablet as if you are using a mouse and choose insert shape and the freeform, scribble or curves then you should get vector shapes
OMG..!!! Thank you so much Phil...!!! We were badly in need of this feature...never new it was so simple..!!!
Looking forward to make some good drawings now...
Hi,
I just bought an Android tablet. Does anyone have a list of apps that are useful for instructional design?
Phillips, apps for instructional design might be a good new thread.
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