Livescribe+Pen+to+Enhance+Instruction

> As teachers and parents alike know, students and studying rarely mix well. Amidst homework, sports practices, and other extracurricular activities – studying is usually at the bottom of the list. However, new edtech tools can help students study smarter. One favorite study tools for students is the LiveScribe Smartpen. > **Livescribe smartpen** captures everything students hear, draw and write during class, allowing them to simply tap the ink on their notebooks to play back everything recorded at that moment. The smartpen then transfers all their notes and recordings to a desktop, laptop, tablet, or other mobile device, so students can study anytime, anywhere. They can search for key phrases and create custom digital notebooks to better organize their test prep notes. Smartpens are useful study tools for creating interactive vocabulary flash cards, practicing essay prompts, and recording tutoring sessions when preparing for the upcoming standardized tests. >
 * =**Innovative Tools Time -- Livescribe Pen**=



=Agenda:=
 * ===Icebreaker===
 * View the two videos
 * Discussion of benifits
 * ===Out of the Box===
 * ===How are smartpens being used in education?===
 * ===Livescribe Desktop===
 * ===Practice your note-taking===
 * ===What are Pencasts?===
 * ===Create your first Pencast===

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 * **Benefits :**
 * 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
 * **Out of the box :**
 * Pen
 * Notebook
 * Loading the software
 * Synching the pen
 * Setting up online account
 * Recording
 * Downloading
 * Play back
 * ====Sharing notes ====
 * ====** What is a smartpen? How is it being used in education? **====
 * 1) It has to be turned on to capture writing
 * 2) To capture audio you have to press record and the audio is attached to the writing
 * 3) The pen does not recognize handwriting, it records based on how you are rolling over the dots
 * 4) Each pen can capture 200 hours of audio and 3200 pages of writing
 * 5) Earbuds: Why would it be advantageous to use the ear buds?
 * Don’t have to be worn in hear, can be draped around shoulders
 * Filtering mechanism to adjust to the size of the room – setting for lecture hall will filter out ambient noise.
 * Higher quality sound with the earbuds – stereo. Without earbuds device records in mono
 * 2 settings – lecture hall & conference room **To print new dot paper you need to use a color laser printer 600dpi

>>> 1. Navigation bar – cross hair >>> 2. Record/pause/stop - >>> 3. Other icons are how you manipulate audio files after they are created
 * Page settings – bottom of dot paper pages


 * ===== Jump button 10 sec forward, 10 sec back =====
 * 1) Scroll bar – session controls
 * 2) Play back speed – great for ELLs, slow down, neutral, speed up
 * 3) Bookmarks controls scroll through bookmarks

> A teacher would use an external speaker to play for the whole class – pen adapter .79 at radio shack 3.5 – 2.5 adapter. > Teachers can also cut out squares and attach them to word walls so students can listen to the words. > Anything can be printed right on the dot paper but each paper is unique, only the notes and audio will be recorded, not the outline that was printed on the paper.

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* Livescribe and the iPad
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 * Pencast App
 * pencasts can be accessed on the ipad - replay
 * Livesribe desktop view
 * green has audio
 * black is just writing
 * search - allows you to search for specific words or names
 * custom notebook - add or move pages from other notebooks
 * **LiveScribe and Education** >
 * Creating Lessons
 * Note-taking
 * Student Conferences
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