leopardman25

Thanks guys I will investigate the flash issue and Promethean; I had downloaded the personal edition of Promethean which works fine as a stop gap but the licence only lasts for 60 days then you have to go back to the IT technicians and ask them to reinstall it. I also noticed that files you make on this program are completely incompatible with anything else.

Well The main thing I cant do on powerpoint is get kids to come and move things(pictures words) around on the board. As far as I know you cannot do this whilst in slideshow mode. As for your second point I would love to but would have no idea how to write a new program.

Does anyone know of any decent free IWB software that is not smart or Promethean? As someone who has moved schools a few times in the last 5 years I am getting a bit sick of the compatibility problems between Promethean and Smart as schools tend to have one and not the other. Law abiding schools (and rightly so) do not like buying licenses for two pieces of software and neither software seems to be able to open the others files perfectly. Re-making resources that you have already made is time consuming and frustrating. Powerpoint does not do all the things I want to do. If there was some free shareware that functions as a whiteboard tool with a decent write, draw and a drag and drop functions then that would solve my problems as schools would not be reluctant to install a free software. Anybody have any ideas?