Writing On A Keynote With A SMARTpen

This has to do with your SMART board use, rather than with Keynote. On the SMART board, you have to erase what you wrote before it goes away. Use the eraser that came with it.

This is true with everything except the SMART notebook software that comes with the board.

Hi,
I've started teaching in a room with a smart board and was running a KeyNote presentation today. I could navigate through the slides fine, but I really wanted to draw/write on top of one slide.

No matter what I did I could not get the pens to work.

When I closed the slide I could see the writing I had "tried" was actually "behind" the slides i.e. written on the desktop.
Does anyone know how I can ensure that any writing I do is always "on top" i.e. visible over the top of the application I'm running.

The teacher in the classroom (Runs Win XP) said that Keynote may not be "ink aware" and thus could not be written over the top of.

Any suggestions greatly aprpreciated!

I don't think you can, but I don't have a SMARTpen setup to test with.

The first step to getting this to work is to go into the Keynote preferences under Slideshow, and choose "Allow Exposé, Dashboard and others to use screen". Have you done that?

Thanks for the tip.

That setting was not on in the preferences. I've enabled now and will give it a go next time I'm teaching in that room.

Cheers!