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Whyteboard (Windows, Linux, Mac): If you want to turn your display into a whiteboard (either full screen or windowed), rather than writing on top of some other image, I doubt you'll do better than this. (Hypothetically I can draw polygons and ellipses in the straight line or spline mode, but so far that has proved to be purely hypothetical.) The only real drawback (other than documentation) from my perspective is that there are no ellipse and rectangle tools. I have not tested the Win 7 version (yet), but it might end up replacing ZoomIt for me. deb package for Ubuntu, and allegedly compiles on other Linux/BSD systems. There are a few "eye-candy" options I have not mentioned (and have not installed. Once it's running, everything is controlled from a toolbar docked on the perimeter of the screen, which is helpful when you're using a convertible laptop and the screen/tablet is covering the keyboard. There's even a recording feature (which I've not figured out yet). You can add arrow heads, erase portions of the screen (or the whole screen with one click), undo and redo, and save your screen (PDF or PNG). If you draw an enclosed region, you can fill it (something I'm not sure I'd use much).
You can draw in any color, using one of three or four stroke widths, in one of three modes (totally freehand, or with automatic conversion of some strokes to either lines or splines). Documentation is a bit lacking, so you need to read the tool tips and do some experimenting, but it works very well. Ardesia seems to do almost everything I'd want. Gromit works pretty well, but it has limited flexibility and requires you to tweak a configuration file to change pen color, etc.
Ardesia (Linux, Windows Vista/7): Ordinarily I find it easier to find free/open-source applications for Linux than for Windows, but it took me a couple of hours of searching to find a screen annotation program I liked. Image manipulations can be done in a variety of programs (I recommend IrfanView). Three caveats: if you switch among screen annotation, whiteboard and blackboard you lose your annotations there is no way to return to presentation mode, then come back and retain your annotations and the image capture is always the full screen (so you may need to crop in another program before uploading it to its final home). You can copy the screen (to be pasted into an appropriate program) or save it to disk (as an image). With one keystroke, you can turn the entire display into a whiteboard or blackboard. There's blanket erase (with one keystroke) and incremental undo, but no redo. You can draw rectangles, ellipses and straight lines by holding a key down as you go. The width of the pen stroke can be varied. You freeze whatever is currently on the screen (optionally zooming in on it), then draw in one of six colors (red, blue, orange, green, yellow, pink - no black).
It requires keyboard use to control but handles pen input for the actual writing.
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ZoomIt (Windows only, any version): This is a very lightweight program (267KB download no installation, no writing to the registry) that does what it does very well.
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Also, I'm looking exclusively at free (preferably but not necessarily open source) software, and I'm not looking at "smart board" technology (we may get into that, but most classrooms will continue to have stupid boards, if I may be un-PC).
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My attempts to write with a mouse cause MDs to giggle uncontrollably.) I should mention that I'm looking for tools for multiple platforms: our classroom PCs are predominantly Windows-based, and most of my colleagues run Windows on their laptops, but I run Linux on mine and there are at least a few Mac users to be considered. (I'm still working on the other piece of the puzzle, which is finding appropriate and reliable input methods. I've come across several useful programs that I thought I'd list here. A particular recurring theme is rooms with wall-mounted whiteboards that are largely obscured by screens for the digital projectors (leaving a small margin on either side accessible to the instructor). The motivation for this is largely that we grown our classroom technology incrementally, adding features on top of features in rooms that were not designed for them. save some of the better doodling as an image (to be uploaded to our course management system).share the screen between slides and a whiteboard (some of my colleagues like to work homework problems by hand while simultaneously displaying either the problem statement or the relevant formulas) and.turn the display into a whiteboard and draw on it.
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annotate files being projected (from a PC or laptop, through a digital projector). Lately, I've been looking for tools that allow an instructor to: I previously wrote about the tools I use to create presentations.