Hello, today, I'd like to introduce the Livescribe
Smart pen. This is the Echo model you will see in
your bag. You you have the smart pendant and also
a charging cable. If you look at the smart pen,
you'll see that it has a microphone and a speaker
on there. You just push the power button to turn
it on. Let's see the screen. And you will see the
time and then also the battery life.
On the top of the pan, you'll see a headphone port
for listening with standard headphones and a USB
port which is used for charging. So this cable
goes straight into there and yeah, that's how you
can charge it. You can use a standard phone
charger or a computer, anything that's going to
accept a standard USB for charging. On the top of
the pen, you'll have a cat pull the cap straight
off, you'll see the pen there. And then also on
the end, you can't really see it, but it's has a
little special camera there. And that camera is
designed to see.
These little tiny dots that are printed on the
pages of the Livescribe notebook. OK, cameras, of
course, not going to pick it up, but it kind of
has this bluish color because there's so little
tiny dots and it can see that and it can respond
to it. So if I tap here. That's not available for
use on your smartphone. It gets the pen synched up
with this notebook here and we don't need to do
that again unless we had an additional notebook.
So it's usually just once per pen and notebook.
I'm going to open it up to the first page here and
we'll see the standard buttons and options and
things on the inside cover of The Notebook, myself
being left handed. The first thing I'm going to do
is tap here, will have to splay orientation. And
you'll see right now the screen is pointing away
from me. I push left handed. We see that it's now
pointing towards me. So whether you're left or
right handed, the options are there. We also have
display. You can change the brightness there if
you want to cycle through dim to dark to bright.
So I'll keep on right so we can see it hopefully
as good as we can. There's different options here.
The calculator is above here. If you tap on there,
it will respond.
One of the most important things on this page is
if you look at the storage. If we tap once on
there, we'll tell you in megabytes, you tap again,
we'll show you in time. So right now that's ninety
four hours, 59 minutes, which is about right. But
your time should be somewhere around ninety four
hours. So that's for it to a two gigabyte pin,
which most of our pins are. And then if you click
on audio settings, it will cycle through those
settings so low, medium and high. So if it's on
high you'll see the ninety four hour mark which we
should have for an empty pin. OK,
so yeah I won't go over all the options on this
page. If you're not hearing anything on your pen,
make sure that your volume is set up. I have my
own maximum right now. If you want to mute the pen,
that's totally fine. Then you won't hear all the
annoying little beeps and boops in the class,
which, you know, as long as you're used to the pen.
And no, you know, when you look at the screen, it
will say recording on it.
Just keep an eye on that. And using mute is fine.
You'll still get your recording when you do that.
So the main buttons that will be using for your
notes will be at the bottom of every notebook page.
And if you look through the notebook, you'll see
that there's the same buttons on every page. OK,
so
the central buttons we're going to be using are
the record and POS and START buttons there. And
I'll go over these in just a minute here. OK, but
the key thing for every recording is to hit the
record button before you begin. As we do that,
we'll see the screen change on the pin.
OK, so I hit record, it's recording on the pin,
and as I write something, I'm going to just do
test.
One, two, three. OK, so I wrote test one, two,
three, and that's all I need for my test recording,
I'm going to hit Stop down at the bottom.
OK, and now to playback my recording, all I need
to do is tap on that test.
And if I have different places,
I will go to that point in time and see the
timeline on the planet, so I
stop myself there. So I'm not talking so you can
command the playback using the pause and the stop
there again, the key thing hit record at the
beginning of any lecture and had stop at the end
of the lecture. Then you'll have the whole lecture
recorded. If there's any gaps in there that you
don't want to record, you can hit pause and by
using pause, it will keep a continuous recording
for your whole lecture, but you'll be able to
still pause it for a little gaps when you don't
want to record. At the end of the lecture, you'll
hit stop. And that's like your save and close for
that file in that timeline. OK, so
by using the jump button, you'll be able to move
around in your recording. So right now I see over
twenty three second recording. If I play this back
it's kind of hard to do that. Just puts it 12
seconds in. Go back. I want to go back. Just do it.
Jumps 10 seconds back to recording on the piano.
OK, similar. We have a position bar tapping
anywhere in that line will take you to somewhere
in that time line on the pin. This is another way
you can actually go. The very beginning of the
recording, recording and recording on the piano at
all
or wherever you like.
Playback speed is a fun one. If we click on the
plus, it will speed up the recording. Each time we
do that, we'll see the notch increase to the to
the right and it will get faster and faster and
playback. So go ahead and try that. Just one, two,
three. And that's all for me. I sound like a
chipmunk and you can set it back to normal speed
by clicking in the middle. OK.
Yeah, the bookmarks I kind of skipped this one
because this one's a little bit more involved.
This is something that you can use in the class if
you or your teacher. So something really important,
you can just hit that star and it will leave a
little notch in your timeline. OK. Once you have
bookmarks in there, you'll be able to use these
buttons to jump around between the different
bookmarks. So let's do a quick example here. I'll
go back to this one here. Just I'll hit the
bookmark star really quick. There's a string. I
get a little more. You see it right there, I mean,
for my wedding stuff down at the bottom. So I have
that bookmark. If I want to go back to that
bookmark, I would use the left star now.
But it is just
so that that bookmark feature works when you're
doing the playback like I just did, or if again,
if you're sitting in class and your teacher says
something important, you can make it right then
and there.
So, yeah, those are the basics for the smart pen.
That's really all you need to know. If your pen is
like starting to maybe get a little bit dry,
sometimes it'll get like kind of petering out or
whatever. Your pen is running out of ink. If you
need to get new ink, you can just pull the
cartridge straight out, comes out really easy, get
another cartridge and you can put that right back
in there like that.
One key thing that is important to remember is any
time you're writing in the notebook and you don't
have a recording attached to it, you should write
with a pencil or maybe a blue pen or something
else so that you know that the black ink, like we
just did, has a recording attached to it. But then
anything else that you do with another ink or
pencil does not have a recording. OK, because like
right now, if I just start writing with the same
pen, you know, notes, OK, I write notes over here
and then I try to tap on it later. It's not going
to do anything and I can get confused. So that's
why we use a different color. OK, that should be
it. Hopefully that helps you understand the smart
pen a little bit more. If you have any questions,
feel free to send them to myself. OK, thank you
very much. All right.