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The topic in question has to do with 3 tools that I use every day in my insertion process and future professional practice: teaching.
Surely you already know them, but I consider it important to present them to those who do not know about them. These programs, in my case, I have found in a search for alternatives to software that was in windows and that slowed my total change towards Linux, but now, it has become my only system. |
First of all, I want to thank the opportunity that as a user you have to share your knowledge about Linux on this page, which, although small, is just as important and enriches our community.
The machine I use is the following:
Toshiba Satellite L835
3GHz Intel core i2367-1,4M
4 Gb of Ram
System: Elementary OS Luna
Well now to the programs in question.
Low Cost Whiteboard Pointer
Since the wii came out, there have been hacks for it, among which is the construction of a digital whiteboard, which is based on having the wiimote and an infrared pointer. Turoriales there are many about this.
To use the wiimote, you need a program called WiimoteWitheboard in windows, which does not have a version for Linux. Well, in search of an option for Linux, that was installable in a simple way (find and use apt-get install at most) I found a program in the Ubuntu Software Center: python-whiteboard. Also within the same Software Center there is another option such as: Whiteboard for Wiimote in GTK, this is how it appears in the Software center)
The interface is similar to the Windows version and works wonderfully, at least on my notebook it doesn't crash and it recognizes the wiimote very quickly.
Low-cost interactive whiteboard
The following program complements the previous one, and is a digital whiteboard software, which is called Open Sankoré.
It is an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB or "Interactive Whiteboard") software compatible with any projector and pointing device. It is based on the UniBoard software, created by the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland, and was later released as Free Software under the LGPL license.
The format used by this program is not a proprietary binary format, but is supported by the W3C standards, which allows the lessons to be published on the web so that they can be accessed through a simple browser, without the need for special plugins. Furthermore, the program is extensible through applications written using the W3C widget standard. This allows software developers to focus on the basic functionality of Open-Sankoré, while the community can easily develop a large number of more specific applications that respond to their own needs.
On its page you can find the .deb package to download it and then install it on our systems (debian, ubuntu and derivatives).
Prezi Desktop.
Well, this option is not open source, but it is one of the most interesting programs for making presentations, leaving a little aside in my opinion the paradigms that we find in PowerPoint and Impress.
Now, searching the web intensively, I only came across version 3 of Prezi Desktop, which is an Adobe Air application. Version 4, if one uses Wine, at least in my case, it would not go beyond the screen where it asks for the email and it would remain in a loop of "obtaining the license".
In my search, I came across this page: http://robert.orzanna.de/. In which, it makes available an air package of version 4, allowing the application to be run as if it were "natively". In my case, the application has not given me any problems and in fact it works in a very fast way.
To install it, that is if we cannot simply download the .air file and install it, since it will tell us that the file is corrupt.
Facility :
1. Download Adobe Air and its SDK. In my case, I had to create a folder called “airapps” within the /otp directory, extract the SDK files, and paste them into /otp as well, renaming the folder to “adobe-air-sdk”. Remember that all of this must be done as root.
2.- Download the Prezi Desktop Air file.
3. Once downloaded, you must unzip it and copy everything to /opt/airapps/prezi-desktop (you may need to create the prezi-desktop folder)
4. To run it, type the following from a terminal; you can also create a launcher by copying the entire command.
/ opt / adobe-air-sdk / bin / adl -nodebug /opt/airapps/prezi-desktop/META-INF/AIR/application.xml / opt / airapps / prezi-desktop
After this, you will have something similar to this:
All functions work without errors, including full screen view.
Those who prefer not to install Prezi Desktop and Adobe AIR can use Prezi directly from its website.