Setting up Lion FaceTime to connect to iPad on same account but in different places

HI,
This may seem like a dumb question....I am going away on Tuesday and am taking my iPad2 - we are very familiar with using Facetime on the iPad.  We just got Lion on the iMac and it now has FaceTime, but I have not set it up...I want to use FacTime on the iMac to chat to my family from the iPad while I am away.  Do I need to set up a different FaceTime account on the IMac so that I can connect to it from the iPad2? Or can I call from the iPad to the iMac using the same account...?  i.e. does it recognise that even though its the same account its 2 different devices in 2 different places....
Hope that makes sense...?
Thanks

On his iPad, go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive, tap the ID, sign out, then sign in with the other ID.   For FaceTime, do the same thing in Settings>FaceTime. 
If you need to change his iPad to a separate iCloud account go to Settings>iCloud, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account.  (This will only delete the account from his iPad, not from iCloud.  Your iPad will not be effected by this.)  When prompted about what to do with the iCloud data, be sure to select Keep On My iPad.  Next, set up a new iCloud account using a separate Apple ID, turn iCloud data syncing for contacts, etc. back to On, and when prompted about merging with iCloud, choose Merge.  This will upload the data to the new account.
Finally, if you have any of each other's data in your iCloud accouts you'll have to go to icloud.com on your computer and sign into each iCloud account separately and manually delete the data you don't want from each account (such as deleting the your contacts from his account, and vice versa).

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