# Making educational videos with a drawing tablet

## Overview

Drawing tablets are heavily used for creating educational content. For example you've probably seen the Khan Academy videos and those are created with a drawing tablet.

For this you want high reliability and durability and you DO NOT need to spend a lot of money buying a fancy tablet. And for those reasons I'll keep the recommendations short:

## What features you need

* Pressure support - Will help you strokes look more natural. All drawing tablets have this pressure support.
* Tilt - not needed for education use. More of an artist thing.
* Tablet buttons (aka. ExpressKeys) - I think they can come in very useful for people. For some people these are critical. No harm in getting them, you can always disable them.
* Size - Medium or Small. I always recommend medium. Even though some people are OK with small tablets, I do see a far number of people say the small size makes their hand feel cramped.

## **My recommendations**

**Pen tablets (no screen)**

* One by Wacom Medium (CTL-672) - [One by Wacom (CTL-x72) notes](https://docs.sevenpens.com/drawtab/catalog/drawtabs/wacom/one-by-wacom/wacom-ctlx72-notes)
* Wacom Intuos Medium (CTL-6100 or CTL-6100WL)
* XP-Pen Deco MW
* XP-Pen Deco LW

**Pen displays (have a screen)**

* Huion Kamvas 13 GEN3 (GS1333) - [Huion Kamvas 13 GEN3 (GS1333) notes](https://docs.sevenpens.com/drawtab/catalog/drawtabs/huion/huion-gs1333-notes)
* XP-Pen Artist 12 GEN2 (CD120FH)
* XP-Pen Artist 13 GEN2 (CD130FH)
* Wacom One 2019 (DTC-133) - [Wacom One 2019 (DTC-133) notes](https://docs.sevenpens.com/drawtab/catalog/drawtabs/wacom/wacom-one/wacom-dtc133-notes)

## Which tablet does Sal Khan use?

Sal Khan uses a Wacom Intuos Pro Medium for his videos. That is an AMAZING pen tablet (screenless tablet), but honestly overkill. You can get by with a much less expensive tablet.

He looks to be using an older Intuos Pro medium (not the PTH-660, or PTK-570, maybe the PTK-651).

Note that the Khan Academy has this document [**What software program/equipment is used to make Khan Academy videos?**](https://support.khanacademy.org/hc/en-us/articles/202483430-What-software-program-equipment-is-used-to-make-Khan-Academy-videos) In that doc, they say he uses a Wacom Bamboo tablet. I suspect this probably was true at some point, but he clearly no longer uses it.

## Resources

* [Teach with Khan - Sal's Tips for Creating Blackboard Videos for Remote Learning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcqPMKAVM04) - this is the video where he shows that he uses Wacom Intuos Pro Medium tablet.
* [Khan Academy - Be Like Sal: 3 Ways a Tablet Can Energize Your Digital Teaching!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITsSBEkEo0c) 2020-12-09
* [ClassPoint - Best Way to Use Wacom Tablet for Online Teaching with PowerPoint](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV9BVNpwtZs) \[One by Wacom] 2020-12-02
* [Joshua Tarbutton - My Workflow for Recording Khan Academy Style Lectures](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_YvA5quXMY) 2020-03-28
* [Be a Better Dev - How to make Khan Academy Style Videos for YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fk9xDpJhvk\&pp=ygUlaG93IHRvIG1ha2Uga2hhbiBhY2FkZW15IHN0eWxlIHZpZGVvcw%3D%3D) 2020-12-26
* [GRUMO - Teach with a Tablet (Full Tutorial + Demo)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3rYfgm0Asw) 2020-05-26


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