Online Computations

• Paper
• Physical whiteboard
• or Electronic device – such as a tablet or iPad.

If using an electronic device:

In some cases, you can see what you are writing on the device (for example the iPad), in other cases what you write on the device is projected onto a computer screen (for example the Wacom Intuos Tablet)

Physical device

If you are using a physical device then you need to mount a camera. This could be a document camera, or something you set up with a webcam or even your phone. See the example of a makeshift document recorder at the bottom of this page.

Electronic device

If you are using an electronic device then you will need to use some software (an app) on which to write. Options include (but are not limited to):

• PDF Annotator (costs money)
• PowerPoint (available to JCU staff and students)
• OneNote (available to JCU staff and students)

If using OneNote:

You can either write onto a blank page, or annotate a previously created document (such as a PDF copy of lecture notes or tutorial sheet). Here are a couple of examples of recordings of OneNote annotations

• Using OneNote to Prepare Screencasts (6.05min) (From 2012, so functionality might not be identical to current version)
• OneNote Screencast (3.48min) (From 2019)

The options may vary according to context – asynchronous recording versus “live” tutorial in Collaborate or Zoom.

• Mediasite Desktop Recorder
• Collaborate (no editing) (You can use the whiteboard in here
• Zoom (no editing) (You can use the whiteboard in here)
• Camtasia studio (costs money)
• Online screen recorder such as Screecast-o-matic
• Doceri

If you are doing something interactive you will probably be using Collaborate or Zoom. Your students may not have a tablet that they can use to share their work with you.  In this case you can get them to share a photo or scan a document they have produced.