SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard For Dummies

Writing and Drawing in Ink Aware Programs versus Non–Ink Aware Programs

You likely have numerous documents created in programs such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. To be able to bring these documents to life, you don’t need SMART Notebook software. SMART Technologies developed Ink Aware and SMART Ink software for that. One of these programs will be available to you, depending on which version of SMART software you install.

Ink Aware programs recognize industry-standard applications such as those in Microsoft Office and display a small toolbar. When you write or draw on the interactive board displaying the file (for example, an Excel spreadsheet), it becomes a component of the file instead of just an external annotation over the file. (I explain how to use Ink Aware in Chapter 2.)

SMART Ink software lets you write over any screen, regardless of whether the program is Ink Aware. You can mark up anything you see on your display using digital ink.

When you use software that’s Ink Aware, you can insert anything you draw or write on the screen as part of the file instead of writing or drawing over the file.

Non-Aware applications create content or objects using the interactive whiteboard software and save it in SMART Notebook files or as PDFs.

Your interactive whiteboard and SMART Ink software enable you to add text or ink notes into non-Aware applications. For example, you can create ...