![]() What I would really like is to be able to turn on screen recording (like QuickTime on the Mac) and then go about presenting as I do in my Human Capital class using PowerPoint. Two More Ways You Shouldn’t Try to Record Live Lectures Explain Everything then catenates all these videos together when you export the whole thing at the end. That means everytime you scroll back to a previous slide the app asks if you want to overwrite the last video or extend it. It’s mildly annoying that the annotation tools are always on screen, but the main problem is that it records separate videos for each slide. ![]() Many people have great luck using Explain Everything to record presentations, but it turns out to be a pretty lousy tool for live presenting. Recording Live Lectures? Don’t Use Explain Everything! ![]() If Microsoft hadn’t fixed PowerPoint, I’d still be using this. I haven’t figured out how to open Dropbox files from the app, but it’s not hard to browse in the Dropbox app and then copy presentations over to Keynote. That’s what Colin is using in the picture at the top of the page–You can’t see his big smile as he writes directly on the slides, but trust me that it’s there. Keynote imports PowerPoint presentations (with animations intact), and it has a nice annotation interface with silky smooth Pencil support. I’m looking forward to trying PowerPoint again in class this week now that the Pencil support is fixed, and at the same time they added the ability to save the annotations you make while presenting. Until the Febrary 26 update (1.18.5) there was major lag and even worse it was just ignoring every third or fourth stroke. I can open presentations directly from Dropbox and the user interface is excellent, but theįirst time I tried it, the Apple Pencil support was awful. Having read some very positive reviews of PowerPoint for iOS, I thought this would be a slam dunk. My students like to occasionally use PowerPoint animations in their slides, and these disappear during the translation process.īest for Presenting PowerPoint presentations: PowerPoint for iOS The Apple Pencil works nicely and the user interface will get out of the way, but you have to turn your presentation into a PDF to enable the annotation features. PDF Expert is a terrific app for annotating PDF’s on the iPad, and it’s not bad for presentation. ![]() This semester I’ve experimented with several ways of using the iPad Pro in both classes and settled on a few workflows that work well for me. I use slides, but there’s an added wrinkle as I also record all my lectures for students that have to miss class. On Monday mornings I teach advanced biostatistics in the medical school. We explain methods, walk everyone through tables of empirical results, and pose questions for discussion. There’s a fair amount of slide presentation by both me and my students during the class. On Wednesday afternoons I teach the Economics of Human Capital in Latin America. What I didn’t know was that Matt Regan at the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning would lend me an iPad Pro for use this semester! (Matt has since moved right next door and is now the Communications Manager at Yale’s Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics). The moment I read this I knew I would eventually have to get an iPad Pro for lecturing. This is exactly how I had been lecturing for the past two years, and it was in fact just as painful as Fraser made it sound. If you’re an artist, note-taker or teacher, you’re going to really struggle without the native ability to use an Apple Pencil on the screen….Of course you could haul along a Wacom tablet to make up for the lack of pen input on your MacBook Pro, but suddenly you’re hauling a whole lot more cables and looking for a substantial desk space when out and about. Back in November, Fraser Speirs wrote about switching from an iPad Pro to a MacBook Pro :
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