Day 26 – Ink2Go Screen Annotation for the Surface Pro Desktop
Teaching and Learning with a Windows 8 Tablet4/06/2013
Welcome to Day 26 of working with a Microsoft Surface Pro Windows 8 tablet for educators.
This post is about a Windows 7 tool that I sometimes use to annotate items on the Desktop that I want to “draw” the eye to focus on when I am teaching. Ink2Go is affordable at only $20 and can serve to substitute for a Whiteboard and an added bonus adds a built-in screen recorder. This is a lot of functionality for the money in an easy to use tool.
Ink2Go works on Windows 8, sort of. The screen annotation tools works fine on the Desktop side of Windows 8 but does not work well on the modern Start Screen side. If I want to annotate on top of webpages I need to make sure I am using the Desktop version of IE and not the modern IE. This can get confusing but once you understand the difference you can easily adjust.
The webcam tool of Ink2Go also does not work properly on Windows 8. Since the Surface Pro has two webcams, one front and one on back, the Ink2Go software chooses the back camera and I cannot change it to the front camera.
So, with those two big caveats why am I spending my time with Ink2Go on the Surface Pro? The first reason is the digital Pen that comes with the Surface Pro works well on the Desktop side and is easy to use with the Ink2Go toolbar. It is very easy to use.
Ink2Go
http://ink2.eyepowergames.com/
Ink2Go
http://ink2.eyepowergames.com/
You can even freeze YouTube videos and annotate over them. Once you finish you can erase the ink annotations and continue. This is a great feature for coaches or science teachers wanting to freeze-frame something to analyze further.
The second reason to consider this program is that Ink2Go has a built-in screen recorder that does a good job for recording screencasts on the cheap. I have provided a quick screencast below made using the Surface Pro and the Ink2Go software. The sound quality is not great but is acceptable.
I do hope that Ink2Go will update their software so it is compatible with Windows 8, but for now I find enough value to continue using it.
Until next time...
Keep on Learning,
Keep on Learning,
Tom Grissom, PhD
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