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Check out how to build a loft for your college dorm room or any room! This pencast is courtesy of Michael Snively, a Pulse smartpen expert and Livescribe Campus Rep at MIT.
For more great pencasts, check out the Livescribe community. If you have a pencast you’d like us to feature, please e-mail klee @ livescribe.com!
For this month’s Popular Mechanics issue, Science and Technology reporter (and Pulse fan) Michael Belfiore tried a different approach in interviewing Tom Mueller from Space Exploration Technologies: A pencast!
That’s right, Michael’s online article included a pencast of Mueller explaining the SpaceX engine his team designed, and how they did it!
A longtime fan of pencasts, Michael wants to know: Should Popular Mechanics include more pencasts in their stories? Let the editors know by adding a comment to his story!
Changing How Teachers Deliver Instruction and Students Process Class Information
Livescribe Inc. debuted its award-winning Pulse smartpen and mobile computing platform to administrators and educators at the National Educators Computer Conference (NECC). The Pulse smartpen is a computer in a pen that captures everything a person hears and writes and syncs the notes and audio together. Administrators, teachers and students alike can simply tap on their handwritten notes with their smartpen to hear the conversation play back from that exact moment in time.
The notes and audio can be transferred to their computer for backup, search, playback or sharing. This simple-to-use technology provides students with on-demand access to teacher instruction and enables school administrators and teachers to evaluate classroom performance, teaching quality and student progress efficiently and accurately.
“The most effective educational technologies are the ones that require minimal behavioral change on the part of the teacher and the learner,” said Byron Connell, chief marketing officer of Livescribe Inc. “Pulse is as intuitive to use as regular pen and paper with all the power and functionality of a computer.”
For more information on how the Pulse smartpen improves student learning and teaching effectiveness, please visit www.livescribe.com/education. Livescribe is exhibiting at the NECC Conference in Washington, D.C. this week in booth 3260.
Examples of Pencasts Created Using the Pulse Smartpen from Teachers and Students
Julie McLeod, Rountree Elementary School, Sixth Grade Math
http://juliemcleod.org/mathcasts/
Chuck Duncan, Kentucky Education Television, Distance Learning Physics
http://www.dl.ket.org/physicsap/physicsapPCast/tocPencasts.html
Kathleen Post, Pocono Christian Home Education Center, Trigonometry
http://mathfcs.wikispaces.com/Advanced+Math
We’ve discovered educators and teachers – who are using their Pulse smartpen to capture their class lessons, explanations, and lectures – are embedding pencasts online for their students and readers to review and replay. Here are some sites with educational pencasts ranging from solving algebra problems to defining research process to explaining developmental psychology. Enjoy!
Want more? Go ahead and peruse our Livescribe Community. If you’d like to see your pencast in our next round-up of pencasts, please email klee @ livescribe.com.
Julie McLeod, Rountree Elementary School, Sixth Grade Math Teacher
Mrs. McLeod’s sixth grade math students use the Pulse smartpen to document their thought process as they solve math problems.
Chuck Duncan, Kentucky Educational Television, Distance Learning Physics Teacher
Mr. Duncan provides his distance learning students with the ability to check their homework and master concepts by watching him demonstrate physics problems using the Pulse smartpen.
Chris Craft, Cross Roads Middle School, Spanish and Latin Teacher
Mr. Craft uses his Pulse smartpen to allow special needs students to playback handwritten notes and audio at their pace for on-demand access to instruction.
Noelle Kreider, Rialto Unified School District, Technology Integration Coach
As a technology integration coach, Mrs. Kreider uses the Pulse smartpen to capture information, record observations, model note taking, capture drawings and record meetings.
Kathleen Post, Pocono Christian Home Education Center, Algebra Teacher
Mrs. Post uses her Pulse smartpen to share notes with her students in order to better explain answers to complicated math problems.
Remember taking science classes in high school or college? Now you can relive those good old days of being a student, thanks to our Livescribe Community members who used their Pulse smartpen to capture their lecture’s notes and audio.
We are constantly impressed by the pencasts uploaded by our Livescribe Community, so we rounded up our favorite science pencasts and embedded them directly here in our blog post for your enjoyment. Just click on the pencast to hear the lecture and watch the notes animate!
Want more? Go ahead and peruse our Livescribe Community. If you’d like to see your pencast in our next round-up of pencasts, please email klee @ livescribe.com.
Science Pencast -
This month the Livescribe Community features pencasts by a series of artists at the 2009 New York Comic Convention. A few enterprising Pulse smartpen owners tackled the show floor and convinced their favorite artists to create sketches using their Pulse smartpen. We’ve included links to a handful sketches, including one by Peter Laird, co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Click the images to jump to the pencasts. Be sure to view in full screen and hide the preview ink to see the sketches animate from start to finish!
How do you use your Pulse smartpen? If you’re interested in sharing your pencast on our company blog, email Karen at klee @ livescribe.com.
NYCC 09 - Todd Nauck Sketch (Spiderman). Uploaded by: kmarlo
NYCC 09 - Peter Laird Sketch (TMNT). Uploaded by: rchapoteau
NYCC 09 - Joel Gomez Sketch (The Joker). Uploaded by: rchapoteau
