Touchstone Beginnings - Digital Doctorate
How is digitization transforming doctoral education?
Pencasting
enAugust 25, 2019
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About this Episode
Tara and Jamie Quinton talk about pencasting, and the Livescribe. Many of us tried the smartpen a decade ago - but a new version has just been released. But why use a smartpen? Why did it fail a decade ago? Why could it succeed now?
And what is a pencast? Is this a moment in the history of sonic media?
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