Sympodium drawing tablet and Keynote?

Hi folks,
I've been using a drawing tablet to liven up presentations and I'm having trouble getting it to work with Keynote. In a different room, they had one (a "Sympodium" drawing tablet, which is an LCD screen that lets you draw right on the screen) and it was set up to work with the Windows machine, where it worked very well with the otherwise nasty Powerpoint. This is a fabulous thing that lets you draw right on top of slides while showing them, clearing the screen when you advance to the next slide but retaining your drawings if you go back, and simultaneously recording your entire presentations as a quicktime file.
The only problem is, I can't get it to work with Keynote, which I prefer to powerpoint in almost every respect. Has anyone else tried this, or does anyone have any info about getting this to work?
Thanks,
-mk

The features you are describing are features of the SMART Notebook software that is the underlying driver for the Sympodium. The Sympodium, incidentally, is functionally identical to the touch-sensitive SMART board, but more useful when the projection screen is larger than about 5'.
Anyway, first make sure you have the SMART software installed on your machine. Get it from www.smarttech.com; they have a very liberal license policy (as long as your organization has at least one of their hardware products, you can use the software). You'll also have to connect the Sympodium to your computer via USB. I know that in the classroom I just built, I provided a VGA connector and an audio connector for users laptops, but no USB connector for the Sympodium; that's "permanently" wired to "my" computer. You'll need a USB A->B cable (with the square connector on one end) to hook to the port on the left-hand side of the Sympodium.
I've not yet used the Sympodium with Keynote, but I imagine you probably have to tell Keynote to share the display for your annotations to show up. We're getting a dual-boot Mac Mini for the classroom that has the Sympodium; once that is up and running, I'll experiment with it.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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