It was amazing to meet the man who invented the Leap Pad and the Livescribe Pulse smartpen! I presented the next day at their poster session as well. I also presented with Jim Marggraff, CEO and founder of the Livescribe Pulse smartpen at a breakfast on Tuesday morning.
That was very exciting! I was so busy that I didn’t get any photos of their booth! Every day I spent some time in the eInstruction booth showing folks how I use the Mobi, CPS Pulse student response clickers, ExamView and Workspace in my own classes. I worked with several companies while I was there. I had a great time at ISTE! This is the first time I have ever been to a conference and stayed in the vendor area the entire time! Link to the actual Hyperstudio Stack in HTML5 He also taught the part of the workshop on Animationish! He did a fantastic job and I was very grateful to have him with me! I hope he can help me during my 8 hour workshop I am giving in October! ? My 13 (soon to be 14) year old son was my technical helper during the entire workshop, walking around helping anyone who had questions. The workshop was in a computer lab, so each participant was on a laptop. When you make a google website, the side links are alphabetical, NOT in the order I presented them in! If you view the workshop website, to have it make more sense, scroll down on the HOME page to see the schedule and follow the links IN ORDER that are in the schedule. During the workshop I presented with the Mobi, and had the participants often answer questions using the CPS Pulse clickers (eInstruction).
To see the full workshop, along with all the materials presented, you can visit my google website for the workshop. Workspace (eInstruction – comes with the Mobi).Looking at the screenshot of my website for the workshop above, you can see the major topics were: Today I gave a 3 1/2 hour hands-on workshop on teaching with technology, in Tucson, AZ Here is one of the solutions I wrote to my students just today: * here is the link to the page that contains all the homework solutions I then send them the link to the pencast, and I also created a webpage to house all solutions to student homework questions. Instead of trying to type back a response to them, I fully explain their solution using a Livescribe smartpen. The students use an online program to do their homework, which sends me a screen shot when they need help on a particular problem.
*to see the actual board notes, you must go to the calendar and click on “board notes”, since they are an attached PDF file, I cannot link to it here.ģ. I place on link in the calendar to the board lesson on the day the lesson was given. An especially nice feature of the Mobi software, called Workspace, is that I can save the board notes and export them to a PDF file. I use a Mobi (from eInstruction) to present the lesson from anywhere in the room. I created a webpage to house the daily notes for each chapter, starting with our first chapter: Chapter 9Ģ. I then upload the notes to their class website, and post a link in the calendar on the day the notes were taken.
At first no one wanted to try it, but after a short time, they were all wanting to have a chance to write with the Mobi!
After putting a problem on the board (computer screen, writing with the Mobi and using software called Interwrite Workspace), I would give 4 groups each a Mobi and have someone from the group post their group’s solution. I have had my students sitting in groups since the first day of class, but today I thought I would add more interaction and have them contribute to the board notes.