In a previous post I wrote about  how we traveled to see our reading buddies and recorded them retelling a story to us.  Unfortunately, only one group  successfully recorded the retelling.  We sure learned a lot in this process!

As a class we played back the recording by touching the pen to the page–we were able to hear the students talk and draw.  The next step was to attach the pen to my laptop and transfer the data from the pen to the Livescribe Desktop software.  It seemed pretty simple but I had a hard time figuring out how to transfer the uploaded page to My Livescribe (my personal  folder of pencasts).  After a few mishaps I figured out that I could left click on the page and a drop down tab would appear.  I could then select send to My Livescribe.

Livescribe allows you to send the file to a number of other applications–your computer, email, Evernote, Facebook, googledocs,  google sites, Microsoft OneNote as well as your mobile device.

Once I selected where I wanted to send the file I was then prompted to decide whether I wanted to send pages only, pages with audio or audio only.  I chose pages with audio because I wanted the students’ drawings to appear as well. This is what the pencast looks like when it is on My Livescribe.  I choose to make it public so that I could embed the file into a wiki.

This is the link to the only recording that worked during our first session with our little buddies at Eagle View Elementary. If you decide to listen to it just  click on various points of the pencast to hear the recording.  You do not need to play all 5 minutes of the pencast –press play to start it but then you can click your mouse on various dots or pens marks on the page.

This pencast illustrates how great the Livescribe pen is for writing and outlining but the large tree is proof that they are not so great for coloring!