How does this thing work?
The Echo Smart-Pen is a small pen that works with a specific notebook that has small sensors throughout the page. There is a small infrared camera in the tip of the pen that recognizes the sensors in the page and can transcribe the hand written notes to a PDF document. Also located on the pen is a small audio recorder. The audio and the hand written document can both be uploaded to a computer.
In order to use the pen the power button needs to be on. This power button does not begin audio recording, but just activates the infrared camera to record the notes. The specific notebook that accompanies the pen actually has control buttons on the page itself. These controls include: record, pause, stop (for audio), playback, bookmark and audio volume. The notebook even has a basic calculator built in, and with the touch of the pen tip can do basic calculations.
How do I upload and share information?
Currently there is a software platform called Live Scribe Desktop that can be downloaded onto a computer. This program is nice as it automatically recognizes the individual notebooks labeled by number. A student can use one notebook per class and rename the note book by the class name (chemistry, Math, etc...)
How can I collaborate with classroom teachers?
I am always excited to learn new ways to collaborate with classroom teachers, not only to support students with special needs but to support all learners. At my current school we embrace a blended learning platform, with all classes having their own learning management system (LMS), Haiku. As an 11th grade inclusion specialist, the 11th grade team gives me access to their Haiku page with administrator privileges. This is great because it really allows us to collaborate without actually having a face to face conversation. After my student note taker records their notes I transfer them to the Live Scribe software. Once on Live Scribe I save them to my desktop as a PDF, save the PDF to a Google Doc folder, and create a link in a new content block on the classroom teacher's Haiku page. This can be saved as a Google Doc by the student or printed and annotated.
This system seems to work well, but I am excited for my student to take over the workload.
I will post a video in my next post.
The Echo Smart-Pen is a small pen that works with a specific notebook that has small sensors throughout the page. There is a small infrared camera in the tip of the pen that recognizes the sensors in the page and can transcribe the hand written notes to a PDF document. Also located on the pen is a small audio recorder. The audio and the hand written document can both be uploaded to a computer.
In order to use the pen the power button needs to be on. This power button does not begin audio recording, but just activates the infrared camera to record the notes. The specific notebook that accompanies the pen actually has control buttons on the page itself. These controls include: record, pause, stop (for audio), playback, bookmark and audio volume. The notebook even has a basic calculator built in, and with the touch of the pen tip can do basic calculations.
How do I upload and share information?
Currently there is a software platform called Live Scribe Desktop that can be downloaded onto a computer. This program is nice as it automatically recognizes the individual notebooks labeled by number. A student can use one notebook per class and rename the note book by the class name (chemistry, Math, etc...)
How can I collaborate with classroom teachers?
I am always excited to learn new ways to collaborate with classroom teachers, not only to support students with special needs but to support all learners. At my current school we embrace a blended learning platform, with all classes having their own learning management system (LMS), Haiku. As an 11th grade inclusion specialist, the 11th grade team gives me access to their Haiku page with administrator privileges. This is great because it really allows us to collaborate without actually having a face to face conversation. After my student note taker records their notes I transfer them to the Live Scribe software. Once on Live Scribe I save them to my desktop as a PDF, save the PDF to a Google Doc folder, and create a link in a new content block on the classroom teacher's Haiku page. This can be saved as a Google Doc by the student or printed and annotated.
This system seems to work well, but I am excited for my student to take over the workload.
I will post a video in my next post.