Smart Technologies SMART BOARD User Manual page 22

Win
Win
Win
Note
For a complete list of
all third-party Windows
applications supported
by SMART Aware, turn
to page 67.
Mac
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If you're a Windows user who prefers not to type, you can press the Write button on the
keyboard and then write in the Handwriting Recognition window with your finger or a stylus.
You don't need to alter your handwriting so that it can be recognized by the software; neither
do you need to perform any handwriting-training procedures. The SMART Keyboard will
recognize and convert your handwriting into typewritten text that can be further edited before
being committed to the application or input directly into an active application or dialog.
SMART On-Screen Keyboard (Windows)
SMART Recorder (Windows Only)
With SMART Recorder, you can record everything you do on a SMART Board, no matter
which applications you're using. You can play the recording back and watch it like a movie in
Windows Media Player (a free video player) on any computer. If you have a microphone
attached to your computer, you can even record audio in sync with your data.
SMART Recorder produces standard Audio Video Interleave (AVI) files that can be viewed
with Windows Media Player.
SMART Aware: Making Windows Third-Party Programs Board-Aware
SMART Aware works in the background to make 13 popular conferencing, graphics and
presentation programs Board-aware.
A Board-aware program is one in which whatever you write or draw with a Pen Tray stylus or
Floating Tools button becomes an actual component of that program. Annotations you make
over a non-Board-aware program – such as Word or Excel – can still be captured using our
screen-capture tools, but you can't make actual changes to the program itself. In other
words, you can't save your annotation into the program.
While Aware functions transparently, you may want to deactivate it for certain applications if
you prefer them not to be Board-aware. In other words, if you'd rather not save the
annotations you've created as a part of the program, you don't need to. You may prefer to
save screen captures of only your annotations in a Notebook file or keep no record
whatsoever.
Macintosh users have access to one third-party Board-aware program: Microsoft PowerPoint
for Macintosh. The unique touch shortcuts, annotation-capture and printing capabilities
available when running PowerPoint on a Macintosh-connected SMART Board are described
in detail in Using PowerPoint on a SMART Board on page 70.
SMART Board User's Guide
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handwriting recognition