Recording Daily Class Lecture Notes with Pulse Smartpen

We'd love for you to visit the geometry class website of middle school teacher, Julie Stalling, at Fairbury High School in Fairbury, Nebraska. After Karen Dux had such great success with her Livescribe Pulse Pen, she passed the pen on so her colleague Julie could take the pen for a spin in her classroom.

Julie has let a different student take notes with the pen each day and has uploaded her pencast links to her class website. Here is Julie's description from her geometry class website:

Student notes are taken with a Livescribe pen. If you click on the pencast link you will get to see a picture (.jpg) of the notebook paper and listen to the audio of the lesson. The times are noted for each lesson. We only record the main lecture lesson time, not all the other activities in the 92 minute block.

It is not necessary to listen to the entire lesson. One of the nice things about the pencast is that you can jump ahead to a specific example or definition as needed.  Just click on the notes where you want to hear the audio.

Please keep in mind that teenagers are not perfect. I am proud of these students and believe in them, otherwise I would not trust them with the privilege of using this technology. I ask for your understanding of the silly or grumpy audio you may hear throughout the lecture.

Julie teaches her lesson on an Interwrite DualBoard with a Mobi by eInstruction. She has also posted her DualBoard notes in a .pdf for her students.

Julie's efforts are to be commended, as she is using this technology to provide her students every avenue for success, allowing them to benefit from reviewing the day's lesson or viewing a lesson they might have missed due to an absence.