I recently wrote an article for Livescribe’s Education blog about a how a colleague of mine in the English department uses her Livescribe Pulse and Echo smartpens for her Fundamentals of Writing and Women in Films classes.
I can’t wait to try out having my students take notes when I get back to teaching!
Last week I read an article (and podcast) on Livescribe’s educational blog (Applications in Education) that is very exciting and I believe will really transform helping students. There were two parts to the article, the first focused on using technology in education, and the second part was more focused on the Livescribe smartpen and notetaking.
The entire article and podcast was amazing, but the part that REALLY caught my eye was at the very bottom of the article. I have highlighted it in green below…
Are you confused as to why it would be exciting to be able to print off the special dots on the livescribe paper combined with ANY other document? As a teacher, I see this as an amazing opportunity to give my students feedback on a whole new level! Papers can be graded on the dot paper with the livescribe pen, and the students will be able to hear and see the feedback, rather than just read a few comments that the teacher put down to show corrections. I am sure there will be many more applications of this incredible feature, but I need to play with it first to get more ideas.
Let’s just say I am certainly “Staying Tuned!”
*If you have read an article or have used an amazing product that helps you as a teacher, please send me information about it. I would love to find more incredible teaching tools to use and blog about!
A student in one of my Algebra classes emailed me a screenshot of her online homework question:
The question, as you can see, is written horizontally, but she told me in her email that she thinks she would understand it better if she could see it worked out vertically. So, I pulled out my Livescribe Pulse smartpen (which is never too far away) and quickly worked out the problem for her vertically and sent her a link to the pencast on the Livescribe community page.
Here is the solution I sent her:
As I mentioned in a previous blog entry, I am having my students rotate through creating several visual online tools to help them learn to better organize information and share with others. In preparation for having them create a mindmap, I created one using MindMeister of the syllabus for my course!
I just downloaded Camtasia for both Mac and Windows. I happened to be on my Mac when a student emailed me with a homework question, so I thought I would respond and try out Camtasia for Mac at the same time! Here is the result.
I still need to learn to edit the video and add cool comments and arrows and all the other great stuff I “know” Camtasia can do. But I am willing to go ahead and share my very first screencast with you to show you how easy it is to get started!
Here is the link: http://www.screencast.com/t/MjQzMTA5ZGQt
I finally have my OWN domain so that now I CAN embed Flash! * added May 10,2010
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