Working With Board-Aware Third-Party Applications (Windows Only); Board-Aware Third-Party Applications - Smart Technologies SMART BOARD User Manual

Working with Board-Aware Third-Party
Applications (Windows Only)
SMART Aware is an application that runs in the background whenever SMART Board
Software is active. With SMART Aware, many popular third-party conferencing and graphics
applications can be run as Board-aware programs. This means that whatever you write or
draw with the Pen Tray styluses becomes a component of the program, rather than an
external annotation created over top of the program.
This feature is especially useful when you're conferencing because other sites can view, and,
in some cases, save and print what you write with a Pen Tray stylus on any SMART Board in
the conference. Aware's support also extends to Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Paint, and
Corel Presentations, enhancing the SMART Board's usefulness as a medium for both
information display and creation.
Since it functions solely to extend Board-aware status to third-party applications, the Aware
window will not appear by default. You only need to access this window if you want to disable
Aware support for particular applications.

Board-Aware Third-Party Applications

The extension of Board-aware status to third-party applications is done automatically. In
other words, you don't need to activate anything but the third-party application itself. Aware
works in the background to make that application a Board-aware program.
With a projector, notes written at any connected SMART Board during a data conference
appear at all sites, providing a fully interactive, shared workspace. Of course, projection also
gives the presenter touch control of the third-party conferencing application. The presenter
simply presses on the Board with his finger to open meeting files. He can also record notes
for other sites to see by sharing the underlying application, and then picking up a stylus and
writing on the Board during a NetMeeting conference, for example.
SMART Aware integrates the functionality of the SMART Board with the whiteboarding
component of the following conferencing applications:
•
Microsoft NetMeeting
•
DataBeam FarSite
•
Future Labs TALKShow
•
Netscape CoolTalk
•
PictureTel LiveShare
• Intel ProShare
In addition, Aware supports:
• Microsoft PowerPoint
•
Microsoft Paint
•
Corel Presentations
•
CorelDRAW
•
AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
SMART Board User's Guide
Win
Note
To run SMART Aware,
we recommend you
use a Pentium 75 with
16 MB of memory.
SMART Aware
requires a 486
computer with at least
8 MB of memory.
Tip
You can also save
Notebook files as
Microsoft NetMeeting
Whiteboard (.wht) files.
Select Save As, and
then scroll to
NetMeeting 2.0 256
Colors in the Save as
type box.
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