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Style 3a - Slides only style


Lecturers who will be presenting powerpoint slides with an external display can use the wacom tablet to add annotations during the presentation. This is suggestively useful as the interaction with the slides can make the session more interactive (especially for answering questions). The presenter is also able to maintain their private notes visible only to them on the tablet screen (presenters notes).

AMX Control Panel
  • From the icons on the top part of panel, choose "Laptop". Choose the external display that the slides would be shown on e.g. "Diagonal".
Mac Mini (GridLect)
  • Display settings:
    1. Right click on desktop and select "Screen resolution"
    2. Ensure that the extended desktop is enabled.
    3. Wacom tablet should be screen 1, with screen 2 appearing on the right; as one large horizontal display.
  • Microsoft Powerpoint 2007
  1. The presenter will be providing a powerpoint presentation file.
  2. Open the file in powerpoint
  3. Click on the left hand pane on any slide
  4. Select all slides (Ctrl-A)
  5. From the menu bar click on the Animations tab
  6. On the right hand side there will be a "Advance Slide" "On mouse click" checkbox. Uncheck this box
  7. From the menu bar click on the Slideshow tab
  8. Set the option "Show Presentation On" to Monitor 2
  9. Start the presentation
  10. Click on the pen icon underneath the slide preview.
  11. Choose a pen type and colour
  • TightVNC
    • If the machine has been rebooted the server must be initialised manually. From start menu navigate and choose "Launch Tight VNC server".
    • An icon in the taskbar should appear to indicate it is running (may have to click little arrow next to time).
    • To check if the server is running use another machine to connect. The IP of gridlect is gridlect.maths.usyd.edu.au or 129.78.68.239. Viewonly password is "mathconf"
Whiteboard PC (gridwbrd)
  1. Important::Close all windows
  2. Click on the icon "H" in the quick launch taskbar. This is the automatic setup of launching VNC clients.
  3. IF it fails, perform the following:
    • An icon on desktop is a saved VNC connection that will have saved settings to view the gridlect PC as viewonly and CoRRE encoding.
    • Open two instances of these. If the display appears grey, click on the refresh button located at the top of each window.
    • From the taskbar, right click and selct "Tile windows vertically" function such that the two VNC sessions appear side by side.
    • Scoll each side appropriately such that left shows the live screen and the right shows the previous screen. Adjust the scrollbars such that the window titlebar and taskbar are hidden from view.
Access Grid PC (gridroom)
  • Launch the Access Grid client on main gridroom PC.
  • Join the session "SMS USydney" and always enable "Talk" from RAT window
  • Announce the lecture being delivered and the VNC session details for the whiteboard being "gridwbrd.maths.usyd.edu.au" password "mathconf"
  • After more participents enter, ensure they are able to speak, listen and see the presenter (or you). Use Access Grid RAT controls to adjust microphone, speaker for individual institutions first versus the global setting.

AFTER the session
  • AG machine
    • On Desktop run: "gridwbrd_shutdown.bat"
    • Shutdown access grid
  • Mac mini
    • When the presentation ends a question will ask about keeping annotation. Click "keep".
    • Save the presentation file.
    • Export the pdf with annotation
      • Click the (top left) office start button
      • Goto Save As
      • Choose Publish as PDF or XPS
      • In the save file dialog click the "Options" button
      • Click the checkbox "Include comments and ink markup"
      • Click "Ok"
      • Enter a filename and location
      • Click "Publish
    • Forward these files (powerpoint and pdf) to the presenter.
    • Mouse is placed on charger
    • Switch off screen of wacom tablet.
  • Room
    • Turn air conditioning off

Updated on Oct 15, 2010 by John Stavrakakis (Version 6)