supplementing classroom instruction with pencasts vinnie gupta mechanical engineering @rit
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What is a Smart Pen ?
Livescribe Echo or Pulse Records what you hear and write You write on special dot-paper Audio and Notes are synchronized Information is stored in “Pencast” file Pencast is replayed using free
Livescribe Desktop software
Where can it be used ?
Academic: Lecture Notes Business: Meeting Notes Creative: Sketches with audio
commentary How-Tos . . .
Where did I use it?
Winter quarter (20102) Mechanics II course Problem Solving Sessions
Class Example (MyCourses) Homework Problem (Email)
4-step Problem Solving Method (PDFS)
Parse: identify knowns & unknowns
Draw: draw a suitable diagram
Formulate: write relevant equations
Solve: solve the equation set
Problem Statement
If the length of one side of a triangle is 22”, and the angles at its two ends are 25 and 40, find the other two side lengths.
Concluding Remarks
Used it in the 2nd half of Winter quarter
Uploaded each class example file to MyCourses
Emailed a HW problem solution to an individual student upon request
Do not have data to comment on its usefulness
Concluding Remarks (contd.) Tactile feel is natural – unlike
writing or drawing on a tablet PC Pen is
Low cost ~ $200 Portable ~ regular pen without pocket
clip Large Storage ~ 400 hours audio
Uploading or replaying is easy Can speed up or down the replay