Friday, October 3, 2014

Livescribe Smart Pen 3


LiveScribe Smart Pen 3 works along side of the livescribe dot paper to capture everthing that you write alongside with recordings.  In addition the smart pen features Bluetooth which allows the pen to pair with tables or phones to send the notes almost instantaneously.  Running at 149.95 for the pen  about $10 for a pack of ink  the LiveScribe dot paper notebooks run around 15 for a three pack of one subject notebooks. Link one will take you to the website.  

This pen would be a great addition to the classroom as it would allow the taking and email of notes. The notes could also be posted on websites or blogs so that they are easily accessible to all students. One of the best features of the pen is that it can record at the same time that you are writing. After you are done you can replay the recording by putting your pen on the paper. By setting the pen on a portion of your notes the recording forwards to what was being recorded at the second that the part of the note was being written. This allows students to go back on lectures for information they might have missed while they were writing notes. See link 2 for an example. From a student’s perspective the pen would also be advantageous because it would allow for the keeping of notes without the need to carry a notebook; in addition the notes would be accessible from various locations. Perhaps one of the best attributes of the pen is the ability to keep notes long term. It would completely eradicate the need to keep old notebooks.

 
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2 comments:

  1. I like the idea of being able to record a lecture as some people need assistance for note taking.

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  2. My physics teacher used this and it was a life saver! He would do the homework problems with this pen and post it on his website so if we did not know how to do the homework, we could refer to his annotated notes. This also helped put more class time to learning rather than going over homework since we could that before.

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