Livescribe Pulse Pen in Second–Year Maths Methods Module

Follow-up to Livescribe Pulse Pen in Second–Year Maths Methods Module from Mike Allen's blog

Apart from a few more minor hitches, the Livescribe pen has worked OK throughout the second-year module. At some point the ink cartridge ran out, but the replacement was very easy. In one or two instances the audio just continued over two pages in the workbook, which I suspect is due to “pausing” and then “stopping” the recording, which seems not to work as I expected. When I take care to “continue” after “pausing”, and before “stopping”, I don’t seem to get this problem.

My uploaded files at Livescribe now amount to 750MB, which substantially exceeds the nominal limit of 500MB. However, they seem not to have figured out a practical charging model, so they do not currently enforce the 500MB limit, which is lucky.

More irritatingly, the files stored on my little laptop also amount to a fair size: nearly 1GB, and they are stored under C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Livescribe in a hidden directory. This location turns out to be hardwired into the software, and cannot be set or reset by the user, which is very amateurish. Livescribe have relied on user contributions to their forums to suggest workarounds involving establishing links between Windows folders (or a link to a Dropbox location). Since I have a fairly standard dual-boot ITS configuration, the C partition is not enormous, and I routinely store user data on the D partition, so this dreadful kludge by Livescribe is quite inconvenient. Probably it will be less significant when we drop the dual-boot laptop configuration, but it is still an example of the mentality of the company.

Anyway, we seem to have made it to the end of the term without major disasters, and my next post will summarize and review my experiences and the student feedback that I’ve received.

Michael Allen : 18 Mar 2011 15:40 |  Tags: ITS Livescribe |  Comments (0) |  Trackbacks (1) |  Report a problem