There are plenty of solutions to use Uniboard with a pen device, from the traditional Interactive Whiteboards to the Tablet PC or Interactive Pen Displays. But if you want to start preparing your presentations or lessons with a pen on your computer, a simple and cheap solution is the graphics tablet.

We have selected 2 products that offers good value for money :

The entry level Wacom bamboo costs just 60 $:

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If you need a larger one, the Intuos 4 medium is a good choice :

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Graphics tablet offer you good handwriting quality and transforms any computer with USB connectivity into a cheap interactive whiteboard, it’s an ideal solution to use with Uniboard. And as our software supports pressure sensitive pens, your writing will look great.

We will continue to publish other solutions that are great to use with Uniboard. If you want to share your experience, drop us a comment !

When we tested many types of interactive white boards, every board maker told us their software was very simple to use. The teachers and professors who tried it, however, came back to us with a different message: the problem is not that the software is complex… but rather that is it a software. They are used to work with a standard whiteboard or blackboard, and cannot be expected to change the way they teach overnight.

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Tablets are great for teaching – they give you Web access, blackboard-style handwriting and slideshow capabilities all in one personal portable device.

We think, however, that the way you use it is your business – not your students. Why should they see your private emails when you switch between applications? Or see you looking for a past course or browsing the web to answer a question? Why should you be exposed to them while you try something? Do they even need to see you changing the color of your pen? This only distracts your audience from your message.

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Tired of boring training sessions?

For many teachers, getting up and running with a brand new interactive whiteboard (and the proprietary software that goes with it) requires lots of training. Here’s what Amy Ellisor, technology integration specialist at Richland School District Two, Columbia, SC, says about that:

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Uniboard Apps bring interactivity and web content to Uniboard pages as well as new functionalities to the software. They are created with open Web technologies, the code is available open source, and it is simple to get started developing new ones. Some ideas and examples:

• A plotter that draws a graph into the page
• Word games
• Interactive exercices for mathematics curriculum

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