Skype can work reasonably well. You can sometimes just hold up a sheet of paper to the camera, but if there's something more complex, you can switch the video to sharing a piece of your computer desktop, then switch back when you're done. Bill On Dec 16, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Dan Asimov wrote:
The biggest thing I miss when trying to collaborate on math research with someone who's elsewhere is the ability for us to see what each other is writing, such as on a blackboard or pad.
No doubt this has long since been technnologically possible, but such technology is certainly not widely distributed.
Can people suggest reliable low-cost solutions?
--Dan
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