On 1/28/21 3:40 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
How about just sharing window with your favourite drawing application
(gimp/inkscape/krita/...). That is what I prefer to do.
Tomas,
I could do this.
White board applications - part of the video conferencing - so that they
can be shared - have many disadvantages. They are typically very limited
in functionality, cannot export vector graphics and are synchronized
with
everyone. That synchronization create significant lag which makes it
difficult to draw.
My intention is not to share but to emphasize certain points as I
would have
done on a blackboard when lecturing to a class or leading a graduate
seminar.
For example, when a presentation has 3 take-home points, and there are no
slides being shown, writing the points as I talk about them can help the
audience to remember.
I suspect that sharing requires using someone's cloud server hosting the
software; I'd rather just show the text or crude drawing from here.
Some meeting applications implement this as part of the video chat app.
Usually there's a chat room associated with the meeting that people use
to share things in the way you described.
If there is some sort of recurring presentation that you do then just
set up a room that people can join to discuss the topic whenever they
feel the need to. When the time comes for the presentation, you start a
video chat. If anything comes up during the meeting you can provide
additional resources in the chat room that will persist after the
meeting has ended.
This is actually something I'd like to see for PLUG. A dedicated room on
one of these chat services that could function like an IRC server with
the added ability to jump into a voice/video chat. This typically
requires a single individual to take responsible for creation of the
room, and then it just sits there until needed.
-Ben
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