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>>MODERATOR:
I want to welcome everyone today to the
@one desktop seminar where you are learning at lunchtime. Today we
will discuss Livescribe
pens. I am going to introduce our presenter for today, Donna Eyestone. I have the honor, really, of introducing Donna. We have worked
together or quite some time, but Donna is on to bigger and better things at city College in San Francisco. She is in the broadcasting department
there as an online instructor teaching digital media skills. She has a BA in computer music
composition. She has a lot of interest
and music and technology. She teaches audio production, website, graphic
design, multimedia... she became a content developer for Apple back in
1999. She is our podcasting for educators
>>: Thank you.
Welcome. I would like to share with you the Livescribe pens. How many of you have a
pen and are using a Livescribe
pen?
a solid mix of yes and no.
The Livescribe
pens is a very cool tool. It is marketed for students, but it has a lot of implications for faculty for use in the classroom also.
Basically, they record everything that you hear, right, or
draw. One of the most common uses for me its
meetings. You can set your pen to record and then take notes. When you want to play it back
later, the audio is linked to the notes you were writing. It gives you a very nice indexed audio. Some of
you are former podcasting students of mine, so you know I have a real high value on
index and being able to find what it is that you
said. Students want to be able to do the same thing. They don't want to listen to the whole hour lecture again. They want to be able to jump around and just find the parts they really need to review one. The last thing I will talk
about is how you can share these notes on the line. Whether you are making them, or whether you have your students make these pencasts
I am going to put the link in the chat room and I am going to bring this up in and after
application sharing
window. This is an
example of how some faculty
member isn't using this
using this technology for
teaching. This is a math
example. Anytime you write
something and want it linked to audio, it is often very difficult to
convey with
text, or typed words.
>>:
I'm going to tell you a story about basic functions. You learn some simple techniques to help us remember basic functions. This story begins with a story of the young man named
Clyde. He's going to go to the university as
Arkansas. He is hoping to identify his new identity as a college
student. This is an example of the identity function,
y=x.
>>: I'm going to try to walk you through
this. All that you see is black, was written before she started
recording. Things in green are things she is doing
live as she is speaking. In this playback, you get a couple of
notes. At the bottom of the screen is a display
setting. There are very faint gray lines, so I can preview to see what she will later
write. I can turn those off entirely [ON THE BOARD], or I can turn on all of her
writing, so it is always available to me.
Anytime I move my cursor over something she has written, you will notice I get a little red
dots. The red dot is cool, because it means I can jump to that place in the
>>:
If I want to jump to the identity function, I can do that.
[ Recorded audio in the
On this screen, I have some links on where to go to find some of
these. Nap and science are naturals for this type of technology, or if you are someone who spends a lot of time in the
How do you use this? That is my ongoing question throughout the seminar. I watched
welcome
suggestions in the chat
window on how you might use
this. For other examples of where you might go, there is a
pencast
page. If you are used to podcasts, these
There are two different versions of the pen right now. Pulse is the older version which I have and what I will show you
today. The echo is the newer version. It is
bigger. They each have different file size storages. Think of this
as 2 GB holds about 400
hours of audio.
4 GB is about 800 hours of
audio. You can take the recordings off the pen, so they don't have to sit there forever. But you could also continue to record lecture after lecture after
lecture, and you will still be on the
As we go along, I will point out what is different between the pulse and
the echo.
The pen is just a little bigger than a normal pen. It has a little
speaker [SEE POINTER]. There is a display
that will give you information about what the pen is
doing. There is a headset
-- let me switch to the video so you can see some of these. I will desktop
share and you will be able to see my
desktop.
Here is the pen and for reference, here is a normal
pen. You can see that the Livescribe pens is a little thicker, a little heavier, and a little
bulkier. There is a power switch so I can turn on my pen. Right now it is telling
me that it is 124, which is the wrong time, and that the
battery is a fully charged
battery. This is in the polls, which is the older pen. The Echo, the newer
than has a slightly smaller feel to it and the bottom of the pen where you would hold it
At the bottom of these
pens is the tip where you write, which contains regular
ink. There is also an optical display at the end. I know you can't see it because it is too
dark. That is a little about how it does its magic. My pen has a docking cradle with it, because it is an old pen. This is a USB
cable which is plugged into my computer right now. The metal on the pen connects into the
dock so I can sync the
pen. It has switched me into Livescribe pens top which is its own application that you use to manage the
writing that you do.
The pen is now docked and sinking the information. The new pen doesn't have the stock
anymore. It has a little USB connection at the top of it, so you can use
My pen came with a little case, and it also has earbuds. The events are
special because they are not only headphones, but you can listen to your pen
cast with them. There is a little audio jack on the top of the
pen. These units are also through the microphones, so the plan is that you would put these in your
ears so you would get a stereo recording, which is what you would get when sitting in the
room. It is sort of
cool. I have a hard time wearing earbuds in my ears, so I haven't used this feature too often, but your students could put them in their
ears and they could be listening or recording your lecture for you. The
difference between the old and the new pen is that the
connector in the old pen is a proprietary connection, so you can't use any old headphones you want. The new
pen has a standard headphone port on it, so you could use your
own earphones to listen to things from the pen, but not to record. These are special because they also
record.
The paper is the next magical part of the
equation. This is special
paper. I think it is about $20 for about four books, each which contain about 200
pages. It uses a.positioning system. I've got a page I scanned in
here. This is what the bottom of every page looks like. There are playback
controls that allow you to use the pen to record and playback.
So, often what happens is that I am at a
meeting and they have recorded the meeting and no one really knows I am recording the meeting, because my pen looks like a pen, and my notebook looks like a notebook. Inevitably what
happens is that someone forgets they don't have a pen or a piece of paper, and that they ask to borrow a piece of paper. Then I have to say no, this is my special
paper. You can print this paper out yourself, but you don't want to give it away to
everybody. So, the paper has all these tiny little dots, which is how it
knows what you have written. Let's look at the controls at the bottom.
[ON THE BOARD] this is the menu button [SEE
POINTER].
You can use the up and down and right and left it arose to
navigate. Next, are the record,
POSIX, and stop
pause, and stop
buttons. There is a jump button which I believe will jump you forward or
back 30
seconds. Bookmarks can be added on your pages. You can set the playback
speed of the audio playback and on the
computer, so maybe what I forgotten to say is that you can play these files from the paper
itself, or configured to your computer and have it play that way. When you're playing it from the paper
itself, it will use the headphones are the speaker built into the pen, and you can speed up or slow
down. This is really awesome because when I do sometimes is just the way down.
Then, if I want to transcribe something, I can type with it at a slow speed. Or, if I'm skimming through a
meeting and I don't exactly know what I missed, I can play it back into it three times the speed and still hear what is going
The livescribe
desktop
is shown.
this is my desktop. It says that I am using my starter
notebook, so I am on the original notebook that came with my pen. I try to be efficient with how I use the
paper, only because I must be so cheap. You can print this paper
yourself for free,
however. Each of these pages -- let me open one of
them. This should look similar to the demo I showed
you. I will jump around and show
you. [ Audio
I can jump around this meeting. [ Audio
playing where and it is dark
ink is dark
green]. Each
page comes into the Livescribe
desktop. These are all recordings I have made better just the audio part. I don't have to use the
paper is I don't want to.
I can just take my pen and record the audio with
it. I do that a lot because I either can't take
notes, or I know that I'm just recording myself and I want to get the audio of my
recording. It is a good audio recording
device. If you have written something, you can separate the audio from the paper part of
it if you want.
[ON THE BOARD] these are all of the pages I have on my desktop that have come from
downloads on my pen. Let me show you an
example. All of the notes that come
in are searchable. Let me show you
one of the most common meetings I attend our PTA meetings from my daughter's school. I will search PTA, and it will find
PTA. When I open up one of these documents, it highlights
PTA.
It is finding
PTA based on letters that I have typed and then comparing them to my
If I type in music, it will take
you to where the word music was said, and I can double-click on this and play the
audio. So, that is a really great way to be able to find
something.
If you have long lectures, if you have a written it down, you will be able to search for it.
What a lot of faculty are doing our assigning
notetakers. They give that student near Penn and their
pad. They know they can trust the person and that their handwriting is decent. They have been recording the lecture and take the notes for the
class. The instructor can then share those notes with the
class. That is a really good way of getting your students to do the work. I find that it can be
hard to write and speak at the same time for
me. I know all of you who speak math while writing the members on the board while explaining a
concept,
Let me show you
-- let's just record one of these. First, are there questions so
far? Could be math teacher use the pen while teaching?
Yes, you could
do what I am doing here, where it is projected in real
time. Instead of writing on the board, you would write on your
notepad.
let's record one.
I will switch to desktop sharing
again. Let me get to a blank piece of paper. Right now I have my video camera above
me and I can't get the whole page. This is my problem
because if the video is a widescreen, it is in landscape mode. My paper is set up to do portrait
mode, so I can only show a portion of this screen in my video frame here. I'm going to show you the bottom of the
I press the record button on the pen it
self. It just made a little deeper and you can see it says it is recording
there. Then, I can start writing. Everything that I
write will be recorded. The audio is recorded. You can see I have a hard time writing one
thing and saying a different thing. What is neat for me about this
process is that I tend to flail my hands a lot when I
talk.
My hand is also on top of what I am writing, so it is hard to get a good camera angle for this. But what's
recorded isn't the pen or my hand, it is just the
writing. Okay. So, I will stop this. I will draw a little
picture because it doesn't have to just be taxed. It can be pictures or diagrams or whatever you need to
show. Also, you can buy different sized color
and colored pen
tips. Now I pushed stop. Right now, the recording is in my pen. I will try to play it back and hopefully you can hear it.
[ Audio coming from
pen
I can speed it up, or put it back to normal
speed. I can jump to another position on the page. I can also stop the
playback. Now, if I wanted to, I could record more and add to the presentation. Now I have the audio and my handwritten
notes. To get them to the computer, I will drop my pen into the syncing
dock. You will see it is transferring the page that we just recorded. I will share this
If I go back to the starter to book, I will have a new
page, which is the last page I
recorded, page
26. There is what I wrote. We can play it back from
here. Now, the quality of the
recording is dependent on the quality of the space you are
in. I find I am amazed if I take one of my normal digital recorder
into a meeting to record, I would get Oracle
terrible quality. This
pen does a better job at getting people's voices than any other recording device that I
have. It is not the highest
Every notebook you have will have this front
page which is cardboard. LSU to use the pen in some other cool
ways. You can just tap on these and it will tell me the
time, or the status of my
battery. [ON THE
BOARD]. At here is a calculator. I can use my pen as a
calculator. The answer is shown on the display of my
Now, let's talk about sharing the audio we have recorded. At the top here [SEE
POINTER] you can see several sharing options. Let's start
with AAC. Anyone who has done any
podcasting, you know that's AAC is an audio
only format.
I'm going to save this selected session, which I recorded today. You will
notice it is naming my session based on the time and date of my
pen. It must still be sent to daylight savings time. If you gave me a
little audio only file that I could take and
put in my online
course.
If you want to save the notes, click on
PDF. If I open it, you will see it is showing the
page. It shows the lines on the page and my
writing. This is not a fancy PDF file with the ideal embedded in
it. It is simply a picture of what is written on that
page. There is a way to convert your handwriting into actual
text which is pretty nice.
If any of you are ever note
users, it is a pretty slick notetaking application that you can use on your
laptop or
iPAd.
Ever note or to do a small amount of space for free. If there is someone who uses ever
note, please expand on what I have just said. I don't use ever note because it
usually my files are too big for the free amount of space they
provide, and I have not subscribed to it.
I can upload the movies which is my writing out of the text,
and the audio. If I click the community button at the top
bar, that will upload this. I will show you
one I already have
uploaded. This is a free service. You can upload any of your pages all your
recordings to this space. You can think of it like YouTube. You can share your
file and make it public. There are a bunch of them
appear. You can make it public or
private. You can change your settings on who you want to allow to see
it. You can take and get this link and click the link in your online
course, so students can have access to the recorded lecture. This
interface will be the same as what you saw in the beginning
Example. I can jump around, I can put it on full screen, I can jump
around within the thio to hear different parts of
it. It is a pretty easy to use interface.
The last sharing option is to shared as a pencast.
This option is similar to what you are seeing here, but the pen casts
have the ability to be downloaded
files. I am going to bring up my
iPAD.
There is a free pen cast player
application that is for the iPhone, android, and I
iPAD.
I know this is hard to see, but I can
see all of my own pen casts
that I had created myself, or I can go into the community
area and find academic ones that people have made
public. I can download them and play
them. I can still skip around -- you still get the darker writing that comes
up. [
Audio from my
iPAD
is
Let me stop sharing this. Scratch
The pen has St. what has been written to the idea to that is being
played at that
been
synched with the audio, so the
audio matches up with the
written words and
graphics.
Can I export the entire lecture with notes as a video
file? The pen cast files are actually/movie files. What I have
done is I have taken and exported the
bio then set up my screen recording software, record the playback on my
computer,
and converted it. There may be a better way of doing
that, but that is what I have been doing.
There is also an application store that comes with light
scribe. There are some that are free and there are some that you buy. They
do very specific things. I have the spelling
application which is Paris. You can set the grade level. The pen
will ask the student to spell a word. The student will write the word and then the pen will recognize
it and then tell her if she is right or
wrong. Those you can download it from the
store. There are two important things I want you to
do if you are going to use this for your class. There is a neat program called MyScript.
It is a $30 application that sees the handwritten text
and change it into text
-- it will change your handwriting into keyboard
characters. You can then copy and paste that text into a transcript
or whatever. You can also use it for captioning. For your graphs and
diagrams, I am not sure what the solution is. I don't know how
well it works with mathematical equations. If someone has tried using it, please let us
know. The next part of it is, if someone can't hear but can't see the piece of
paper, you could export it into a PDF and then use the captioning
grant that is available so that the ideal is
captioned so you can put them together. That is one way to help make
them more accessible. The captioning grant has been my
Could you convert to Word and upload to
smashwords? You heard. This
application will convert it.
There is a 30 day free trial, so if you have a pen and want to try it, it is definitely worth trying the free version of
it. I don't notice if you saw, but it is built into the toolbar of
Livescribe desktop.
You should think of it like
Any other
questions? The place that I found the most inspiring to
go, and I know it is hard for me to show a lot of this over the convert interface, so I encourage you to go to the community where they have so many different examples of how
people are using this. I will show another link. This
is for a K-12 site. Even though you may not
be a key 12 instructor, you might find a clever idea. For instance, people were taking these and
doing
these beautiful
reports. They cut out the light scribe paper so that you could take the
pen and touch it to the
project. Someone in an ESL classroom printed
out the text onto labels and then tied audio to the
little labels that were placed around the
classroom. You could click on the label right about the doorknob, and you could click
played
Where do you get the best deals buying all of
this? I have had my pen for a year or two and bought it at target. Target often seems to have deals on them. If you wait
around -- they sell them at Best
Buy. You can also get the cheaper one, the pulse,
for $79. You can also get the higher end one
cheaper at Best Buy as well.
At the PTA meetings, people love that they still have the audio. It doesn't matter so much what the audio quality
is, they just want to get a sense about what is going on. I have been
making a lot of little movies that are me sitting at home at my desk, talking to my
pen and making the
movie. I don't teach in a classroom anymore, so I don't have students that can record my
lectures. If I had to pen's, I would have recorded this. If I speak at a
conference, I often will take my pen with me and record it so I can listen back to
it and use little pieces of the audio recording. It is a convenient audio recording
device.
If you have more questions, real free to e-mail me. If you think of an awesome way that you can use
this that
is not the standard, please let me know. I think we are seeing a
lot... check out the community section and be inspired. They change it all the
time. You can find really interesting, creative pieces. People who can draw had a huge
advantage. His seeing a really clever use of drying to visualize complex
equations. Chemistry and all the diagrams and all of that stuff, it is so much
easier and setting up a video
camera to shoot the whiteboard in the classroom. This is a much easier way
.
Look at that, someone got the Echo at Cosco for
$139!
Thanks for being
here!
Nora, the archive of these presentations will
>>:
What I'm going to do right now is post our survey. If you could take a few
minutes to fill this out, that would be great. And here is the link to
the archive and the downloadable PowerPoint. You
will probably receive
a follow-up e-mail in 48 hours, but it is usually available in 24.
>>:
And I will post another link here. Pencast
TV it separate from Livescribe
>>MODERATOR: If there are no other questions, that is a
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