![]() The children love using the penpal to hear stories and work through the activity cards. We have also added sound effects to the stories using instruments and found sounds. We have also used the Penpal stickers to record familiar books - children enjoy hearing their own voices retelling the stories. Parents have recorded a message for children onto the penpal which children can listen to at any time - this gives them comfort and helps if they are needing a familiar voice. We have used a family photograph of parents and the recordable stickers. One of the ways we have found it to be useful is to help when children first start the Nursery. "We are using the Penpal with our Nursery children who are aged 3-5 years old. When you purchase a PENpal or ClassroomPEN, you also get access to a free course with plenty of instruction-videos and notes, so you can make the most of your pens and get started quickly. For mainstream teachers, it represents an excellent tool for group work and a fun way for pupils to add contextual detail and notes to printed materials, and outside of the education environment it can be both fascinating and comforting for a young child to hear stories and information in their own voice, or that of a friend or relative. PENpal is a flexible and portable device with great potential for both classroom and personal use. Just touch the sticker and listen immediately to the recording you made. To playback you do not have to go sequentially through hours of recordings. There are over 4000 unique barcode stickers for you to record your voice onto, and PENpal will playback your voice everytime you touch the sticker. Each recording is assigned to a specific barcode. Unlike most microphones, PENpal saves the recordings inside its 16GB (expandable to 32GB) memory. One final attribute is that PENpal is also a microphone. The tip of the pen is a barcode reader and when a 'soundspot' with its unique barcode is detected, PENpal plays back the audio. It detects 'micro' barcodes, so small that you can hardly see them and therefore the barcodes do not ruin any artwork. How does it work? PENpal is a barcode reader, with a difference. With the free ShareLINK software, students with English as a second language can play the games, and with PENpal they can listen to how others playing the same game adapted it into another language. It is called "Collaborative Learning" and we have a series of learning activities using this method. There is a method of teaching which believes that children learn best by discussing, debating, narrating, exploring in groups. Yes, all the files are free so take as many as you wish.ģ. ![]() How would you find the specific file for the book you bought? It is easy with FREElink. Now you have bought a Mantra Lingua book with sound effects. Would you like to sound enable any book, be it your favourite book or a prescribed text? It is easy with CreateLINK.Ģ. PENpal comes with 3 easy to use software, FREE.ġ. There is an extensive range of videos starting from basics such as how to switch on, volume control. The books are all in dual language, so PENpal will play back audio every time it touches a page - in English or in a choice of over 60 languages. Audio files must be transferred from a Windows PC or Mac) (Note that PENpal is not compatible with Chromebooks. Each PENpal can read over 1700 books and posters and this list is always growing as new publications are launched. PENpal is a device that plays back audio when it touches printed books, posters, stickers giving a multisensory reading experience.
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