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= = Innovate My Class with Pencasting and Screencasting Agenda

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**Topic: Innovate My Class with Pencasting and Screencasting **
 * Dates: Nov. 10th for PDN Grant Teachers /** **Nov. 17th for Tech Liaisons and Library Media Specialists**


 * **Time** || **Topic/Presenter** || **Resources** ||
 * 8:30 || **Welcome / Sign In**

Carolyn Semet and Beth Richards, Technology Innovation Specialists


 * Get your Smartpen from Beth if you are a PDN Grant Teacher or PDN Grant School Tech Liaison**


 * **Charge your pen by plugging into the USB drive on the computer**
 * If you have your own computer, download the software on to your computer first


 * Sign out a training pen and notebook to use for today from Felton** if you are not from a PDN Grant school




 * Sign out a MacBook, headphone, and Power Cord from Josh Wolff to use for the day** || **JOIN** our learning network if you are not a member: @http://ted21c.ning.com/


 * PDN Grant Teachers - Join PDN Grant Group if you are not a member
 * Technology Liaisons - Join Technology Liaisons group if you are not a member

All participants join our SmartPen group

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 * READ** a review:
 * The Pen that Never Forgets
 * Smartpen article:
 * Bloomberg Businessweek article
 * NY Times Smartpen review by a HS student>
 * Comprehensive step by step review >


 * READ** a blog post and comment:
 * [|SmartPen Blog - Find a post of interest and comment]
 * [|12 Ways Educators and Students Are Using the Pen Today]

Carolyn Semet, Technology Innovation Specialist csemet@schools.nyc.gov || Pencasting Video - PS 145M student
 * RESPOND** to a discussion in the Smartpen Group on our learning network ||
 * 9:00 || **Welcome**

media type="custom" key="7335947" || Here is an example of how Smartpens can enhance the process of taking running records
 * 9:15 || **Livescribe Pulse Smartpen Out of the Box** || The Parts of the Smartpen ||
 * 9:30 || **Sample Uses/Pencasts**

media type="youtube" key="_nANbaozdJA?fs=1" height="307" width="512" || Great example how a Middle School Math Teacher can use a pencast to explain how to solve a polynomial equation. media type="custom" key="7336835"

Educational Uses of LiveScribe Pens


 * What are Pencasts?**

Pencasts are online interactive Flash videos of handwritten notes and audio captured by the smartpen. When you upload your recordings to your myLivescribe account, Livescribe automatically creates a PDF and a pencast from your content that you can then share with others. ||
 * || Poetry Share

media type="custom" key="7480527" || Story retelling by a second grader ||
 * 9:45 || **Introduction to Pencasting -** Livescribe

Nov. 10th - Lydia T. Gonzalez, Consultant Nov.17th - Holly De Leon//, Vice President Sales, K-12//

www.livescribe.com/education || * Smartpen Basics - how to record
 * Pencast Basics - 3 Parts
 * 1) Paper and pen recording
 * 2) Doc the pen to digitize and create a pencast
 * 3) Share the pencast by uploading
 * Pencast creation demo ||
 * 10:30 || Break ||  ||
 * 10:45 || **Time to Create!** || Create a pencast you can use for your curriculum area. Be prepared to publish it and share it too. ||
 * 11:45 || LUNCH || //Lunch on Nov.17th will be hosted by Livescribe// ||
 * 12:45 || **Time to Share!**


 * Uploading demonstration - 2 options**
 * Can upload to Livescribe website
 * Can share as an attachment || **Upload your pencasts //to My LiveScribe//**


 * Share with the group //here//**


 * //Sharing Your Pencasts//**

media type="custom" key="7476855" || Read about a teacher who screencasts with his students || ===Read:===
 * 1:20 || **Screencasting**

|| Josh Wolff
 * 1:30 || Hear from Eric Marcos (Mathtrain on Skype) - Creator of Mathtrain.TV site
 * Overview
 * Rate
 * Comment
 * Authentic Assessment and conversation || http://www.mathtrain.tv ||
 * 1:45 || **Welcome to Screencasting 101**


 * Using Screencast-o-matic to create how-tos (Demonstration)**

Screencast-o-matic website || media type="custom" key="7379457" ||
 * || Sample Screencast on Google Search Tips using Screencast-o-matic || media type="custom" key="7486281" ||
 * 2:25 || **Create Your Own Screencast!**

Some ideas:


 * How to solve a math problem
 * How to use context clues
 * Record yourself reading text aloud
 * How to set up folders for student work on the computer || Be Prepared to share it and publish it

Create a screencast that you could use with your students. || Tag your screencast "//oetmanhattan//" on SchoolTube
 * 3:00 || **Upload screencasts to your SchoolTube Account (or Vimeo if you don't have a SchoolTube account)**

media type="custom" key="7437083" || **Our Screencasts:** media type="custom" key="7472475" || Register for next month's class and view upcoming meetings:
 * 3:15 || **Wrap Up**


 * See events on Our Learning Network
 * Dec. workshop topic: Innovate My Class with iTouches and Podcasting
 * Link to register for Tech Liaisons
 * Link to register for PDN Grant Teachers
 * Dec Agenda Preview
 * || **Questions / Commentary / Final Thoughts**

PLEASE COMPLETE our survey
 * Borough hosting: Manhattan
 * Class: Innovate My Class with Pencasting and Screencasting ||
 * 3:30 and beyond || Adjourn

Something to think about:

Smartpen Legal issues

Legal considerations in NY - As long as one party to the conversation consents to being recorded it is legal. So obviously the party doing the recording can provide consent.

"Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia permit individuals to record conversations to which they are a party without informing the other parties that they are doing so. These laws are referred to as “one-party consent” statutes, and as long as you are a party to the conversation, it is legal for you to record it." See Taping Legal issues || Please share any pencasts you create with us in our Smartpen group ||

Smartpen FAMIS Information:

 * **Item Description** || **FAMIS #** || **Price** || **NYSTL Allowed** ||
 * Livescribe 2GB Pulse Smartpen (Titanium) - LIAPA00003 || 311033598 || $107.54 || No ||
 * Livescribe 4GB Pulse Smartpen (Titanium) - LIAPA00004 || 31099084X || $167.78 || No ||
 * Livescribe 4GB Echo Smartpen - LIESP4 || 311447457 || $140.64 || No ||
 * Livescribe 8 GB Echo Smartpen- LIESP8 || 311447465 || $165.45 || No ||
 * Livescribe Single Subject Notebook 4-Pack, Numbers 1 through 4 - LIANA00017 || 310805708 || **$15.63** || No ||
 * == Livescribe Single Subject Notebook, 4-Pack, Numbers 5 through 8 - LIANA00018 == || 310805724 || **$15.63** || No ||
 * Livescribe Three Subject Notebook, Number 2, Red - LIANA00025 || 310826993 || $6.23 || No ||
 * Livescribe Three Subject Notebook, Number 2, Red - LIANA00025 || 310826993 || $6.23 || No ||

Downloading the LiveScribe Software
If you are having a problem downloading our Livescribe Desktop software from the standard link, below is a link you can use to download and save the full Windows Livescribe Desktop installer from our FTP server. To download and install the software:

1. Click on (Go to) the link below:

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2. Save the file to your Windows desktop.

3. Once saved if prompted click “Open”, or double-click the new “LDWin###_#####_##.zip” folder on your desktop.

4. Double-click the “Production-LivescribeDesktopInstall.exe”.

5. At the prompt select “Extract all”, leave the Windows desktop as the default location, and click “Extract”. A new unzipped folder will be created on your desktop.

6. Double-click the new “LDWin###_#####_##” folder to open it and double-click the “Production-LivescribeDesktopInstall.exe” to run the file.

7. Follow the prompts to install the software.

This should resolve the issue with downloading software through the NYCDOE network.