> OMG! I didn't know that Camtasia could do such things! I never thought it
> should alter the way mouse cursor looks... It is close to perfect!
>
> I teach live, but record for supplementary material purposes. So, this "at
> least" helps a lot. At least for the recordings. And for the class, well,
> howcome Onenote just does not do this? Does anyone hear me from
> development
> department?!
>
> Omer
>
> "Kathy Jacobs" wrote:
>

>> Omer,
>> Do you teach live or just via Camtasia recordings? If all is done via
>> Camtasia recordings, then you might want to play with the pen settings in
>> Camtasia. To get to them, bring up Effects--> Options and go to the
>> Cursor
>> tab. All kinds of fun things you can change to make the cursor more
>> obvious.
>> If you want to go even further, Betsy Weber just blogged about pointers
>> in
>> Camtasia here:
>> http://visuallounge.techsmith.com/2008/04/post_1.html
>>
>> --
>> Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
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>>
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>>
>> "Omer" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:233BF54A-E2A5-4198-AEE3-91671BF53374@microsoft.com...

>>> Dear John,
>>>
>>> Your suggestion of switching to highlighter pen while not writing is a
>>> good
>>> one, if it is the quickest thing to do. Your extremely prompt response
>>> and
>>> continuing interest is beyond my appreciation. I have practiced your
>>> suggestion a bit, and it seems to work as long as I am concentrated
>>> (although
>>> very awkward, cause I am capturing the screen with camtasia, and the
>>> video
>>> looks really funny with all gestures quickly trying to switch pens all
>>> the
>>> time...) I am sure that I will forget or get exhausted about forgetting
>>> switching pens while teaching hours of math related lectures :-(
>>>
>>> Why not a cursor in the shape of a pen!?
>>>
>>> Omer
>>>
>>> "John Guin [msft]" wrote:
>>>

>>>> Hello Omer,
>>>>
>>>> If you are trying to use the ink pointer as a "laser pointer," you can
>>>> change the pen size to 12 or point or something similarly large. It
>>>> shows
>>>> very well.
>>>>
>>>> To do this, click View | Toolbars and show the Writing toolbar. Now
>>>> you
>>>> choose the dropdown for the pen, choose a pen (as opposed to a
>>>> highlighter)
>>>> and customize it to be large.
>>>>
>>>> If you are also wanting to write on the page during the lecture as
>>>> well,
>>>> it
>>>> can be cumbersome to change back to a thin pen for writing. I was
>>>> just
>>>> playing around with the UI and figured out the highlighter pen (chosen
>>>> from
>>>> the Writing Tools toolbar) shows as a rectangle. It seems like with a
>>>> tiny
>>>> bit of practice, you could use the highlighting rectangle pen as a
>>>> pointer,
>>>> and change back to a thin pen for writing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> I hope this helps,
>>>> John Guin
>>>> OneNote Test Team
>>>> http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Omer" wrote:
>>>>

>>>>> The pointer while inking in Onenote is a small DOT. That is
>>>>> invisible
>>>>> for
>>>>> teaching purposes where the students should follow the pointer
>>>>> hovering
>>>>> on
>>>>> something that I show on mu TabletPC projected on the board. This
>>>>> pointer
>>>>> should (and MUST) be optionally made a larger shape (a pen?). Just
>>>>> because of
>>>>> this, I am unable to use Onenote, and I prefer other simple inking
>>>>> applications. If this cannot be done with Onenote, howcome people
>>>>> use
>>>>> it for
>>>>> teaching purposes? Students simply cant see a single DOT moving
>>>>> rapidly
>>>>> on
>>>>> the projection screen!

>>