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Combined with a simple draw program like Smoothdraw (free), a stylus like the Bamboo Pen ($70) can give you a chalkboard or whiteboard to use in the context of your screencasting, and in a live classroom might even be a viable (and much cheaper) substitute to a smartboard for the sake of teacher-presented digital markup.  

Combined with MS Word 2007 (PC version) you can add an ink layer to show markup of text in a screencast.  You can also paste text into a draw program and create an ink layer that way...offering some potentially very powerful ways of giving students rich feedback on their writing, or of demonstrating grammar and literary devices.  See this cool example of a teacher returning a student paper via screencast.

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Beyond chalk and talk screencasts, what are some creative teaching applications you can imagine for a pen stylus?

Useful links

Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet @ B+H (DOE Vendor)

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Airline Stewardess Explains the Functioning of a Wacom Pen Tablet
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Published: 08/28/11
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Screencasting, Wacom tablet

Problem of practice

How do you use a Wacom Pen Tablet, the same kind used by Sal Khan in his Khan Academy videos?

Solution

This is just a simple tutorial video I ripped off and shortened from the software that comes with a Wacom Bamboo Pen. The tutorial was entirely created by Wacom and I'm just making it available in case you need a dive into how the device works.

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