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My wife is a Maths teacher and is, like everywhere teacher just now is having to find new ways of working.
School IT fairly inept and has been struggling by with a super budget and ancient laptop.
Small blessing in that she is not tied to that device and can use her own computer...
She needs the ability to write out maths problems and live stream it through Google classrooms to talk her class through problems.
We've tried propping her phone up on a stack of books and her phone joining as a participant, but image is either upside down on screen or the phone is in the way whilst she does her sums. I can't be a roaving camera man as I have my own job to do.
Tried using a stylus on my budget win10 tablet and used that but was pretty inefficient with too long a lag.
Think we're going to have to throw money at this out of our own pocket. I've seen this Asus laptop which seems to allow handwriting input, but before I stick a grand on the credit card just so my wife can do her job, what other options could I use?
We need to get this sorted, tomorrow really so probably need to be amazon same/next day delivery.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B089LY6Y44/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Xvi.FbTVDN4JE
Thanks
{Not a teacher}
Would a bluetooth drawing tablet work? With appropriate app?
I'm using MSTeams but when I have to do sketches etc I share MSPaint and draw it out using a mouse. Not quite the same but it might work?
My partner is aaths teacher. In the first lock down bought a graphics tab. The bigger size nearly A4. Just a cheapo one from Amazon about £45-50
I am a maths teacher and this is what I use (as TheBrick mentions above):
Wacom One medium size tablet
You just plug it into a USB port and it just works. I find it works better if you don't install the proprietary drivers that come with it.
Our lecturers have been using these : https://huehd.com/products/hue-hd-camera/
Seem to work quite well.
Magic, one graphics tab ordered. Thanks all. Hopefully have a slightly less stressed wife once it arrives!
Happy to help if you need more advice. It does take a little time to get used to writing sort of legibly on it, but with practice it's fine. Some software will also smooth your writing for you, such as Smart Notebook, and Microsoft Whiteboard, which can make it look neater.
My wife is an English teacher, and uses/has used the Wacom tablet and the HueHd both more or less successfully.
If you still need a camera you could also try a stand for the phone. You can get ones with flexible arms etc.
theres a great app that turnes you phone into a wifi camera.
If you have an old one you can mount it directly above.
I actually prefer that being a student, text magically appearing is a bit distracting especially as its often quite messy.
Mind you my maths examples tend to run to pages long so its a bit different 😀