eBeam Edge Quick Set Up and Installation Video
In this video we just received Luidia’s eBeam Edge for Education interactive white board. We walk through what you would receive and experience as a new user.
Some of the highlights are:
We were pretty impressed with the sleek design, easy installation and the simple yet powerful capabilities.
Transcript:
Randy Hew: Hi, I’m Randy Hew with SmartBoardsReviews.com. And today, we’re going to do a review on the eBeam Edge. And we just got a new box today, so I wanted to give you a little insight and take a look with us as far as what you get in the box and how easy it is to install. So let’s go ahead and take a look at the box. So you’re going to get a package that looks like this. When you open up the box…
With it, what you’re going to get is a stylus. You’re also going to get the receiver. You get a little quick set up guide. And you’re going to get a cable to go ahead and install the receiver to your computer. Looks like we get some accessories here, with a battery for your stylus. You get the software, and it looks like some additional tips for your stylus. So why don’t we go ahead and go with the set up?
To start the installation, we want to have the projector connected to the computer. And then the first thing we’re going to do is we’re going to install the software. We click through the Installation Wizard. The way the interact installer pops up, you click on EB interact, we continue, and we install the software. We will walk through the Wizard.
So now, after we installed the software to the computer, we take our cable, we plug it into the computer, and we’re going to attach the receiver onto the whiteboard. So with the receiver, you can put it on the left side or the right side or the white board. And we’re just going to attach it, it has a little adhesive that you attach straight to the whiteboard. And then we’re just going to plug in the cable that comes with the package.
So now what the software is asking us to do is to calibrate the system with the stylus pen. And you can see on the screen here, it looks a lot like a Palm Pilot. So we’re just going to go ahead and click where the little target is, and this is going to calibrate the stylus with the system. And we’re done with the calibration.
So now I’ll be able to use my stylus up here in front of the whiteboard as if I was using a mouse in front of the computer itself. So for example, if I wanted to go to YouTube, all I would have to do is click, and now we’re on the YouTube channel right there. All by using my stylus.
Now that we have the software installed and the system all calibrated, what we get is the eBeam palette. It’s kind of cool, because now we can go ahead and we can import or be able to show any type of documents, PowerPoint presentations, your lesson plans, PDF file, et cetera, straight from the whiteboard using the palette.
So go ahead and open up a document. We’ll go ahead and click on the scrapbook icon. So after we open up scrapbook, we’re going to go ahead and import a background image. And again, this could be a PowerPoint presentation, a lesson plan, a PDF file, a Microsoft document, et cetera. We’ll go ahead and open up this document for right now, have it scale proportionately. Here, we have our lesson plan up.
Now I can go ahead and move my eBeam palette. It gave me a highlighted marker. I can change the size or the thickness of this marker so that my preserved areas of this document here, or this image that I want to highlight for the students, I can go ahead and highlight this area using the highlighter. If I want to go ahead and give a little more annotation, I can put an arrow here. I can say, “This part here is important.”
OK. So we can go ahead and change colors of the marker to a number of different colors. So if we want orange, we can highlight that there. Certain areas we might want to erase, we can use the eraser tool.
And so, we have a full interactive experience with our classroom. Once we’re done with the lesson plan and we want to replay it back, we have this functionality to replay. And here, this is going to go ahead and show us how our lesson plan developed through the time. Here, beautiful.
So we showed a little bit about the functionality and how easy it is to set up. Literally, this is the first time we received a product, and with less than 10 minutes, we were able to set this up, get all the software installed, actually start using the system within 10 to 15 minutes.
So it’s extremely easy to use and if you have a chance, just try and check it out.