Once I had downloaded and installed Slingshot on my computer, it took about five minutes to launch a meeting, connect my iPad, and share my iPad’s screen with someone in the web conference.

If you’re hosting from your desktop, you can use Airplay (built into your iOS mobile device) to mirror your device’s screen to your computer, where it is automagically screen-shared with everyone in the web meeting. Slingshot lets you host a web conference in a snap from your desktop computer or mobile device. I’m zoomed in a little, which is why it looks a bit fuzzy. My quick iPad drawing (screen shot from iPad). Is it good enough? Yes, for some situations.

That’s because last week, Squirrels released Slingshot, the first really workable solution that I’ve seen for real-time graphic recording in a web meeting using an iPad. As of last week, the answer has changed again. For a while, the answer was “Not if you want anyone in the web meeting to see your graphic recording while you’re doing it, no.” Then it was, “Yes, but only if they’re on the same wireless network you’re on, and even then it’s a lot of setup.” After that it was, “Technically, yes, but realistically, no,” because although it was technically possible to share your iPad’s screen to a desktop and then share the desktop’s screen in a web meeting, it wasn’t easy, smooth, fast, or reliable. That’s a question I get asked a lot, and historically, it has had a complicated answer.

“So can I graphically record a web meeting on my iPad?”

Airsketch pro pull up