Livescribe SmartpensResources - Most No Longer Work Since Livescribe Took Down The Community Site
What can the pen do for notetakers?
- Record without sound for static notes
- Record with sound and animation
- upload to your computer
- convert to text using MyScript ($29.95)
- create a custom notebook in your Livescribe desktop (Windows only right now)
- search keywords
- upload to the web for access from any computer
- share pencasts with other individuals or the community
- Applications built into the pen
- Translate words into many different languages
What can the pen do for teachers?
- quickly answer student questions and post them online or email them to the student
- write out examples for students to view online
- Leave detailed notes for subtitutes
- create notebooks in your Livescribe desktop to arrange pencasts by topic
- create a "talking test" for students who need to have the test read to them
What can the pen do for Administrators?
*taken from Livescribe's website
The Pulse smartpen allow administrators to enrich and extend staff training and knowledge sharing.
- Facilitate sharing of best practices among your staff using "Pencasts"
- Maintain accurate records of classroom behavior and participation
- Create an asynchronous solution for peer mentoring relationships
- Simplify data collection to obtain a balanced portfolio of oral, written, graphical, and other measures
Link to In Class Observations Video
Link to Classroom Observation Video
Videos
Translating written notes to text using MyScript:
Access Menus Easily on the Livescribe Pulse smartpen: