After a horrendous week in which we had Ofsted at school (good report but even with the new light touch it’s an awful lot of stress), I’ve finally managed to find some time to play with my DigiMemo this weekend. I’ve been a bit disappointed, as I can’t get it to pick up my writing properly. It might be the battery in the pen, though I’m a bit loath to go out and buy one of those little expensive batteries if i find later it’s not that and it’s just the way i write! My first page lost so many lines that you couldn’t really read it at all when it transferred digitally. The second i wrote on the table, in case writing on my lap wasn’t helping the pressure. That was slightly better but barely! Then i tried the online writing tool, which helped, as it enabled me to kind of ’self-correct’ as i wrote, seeing what was and wasn’t being picked up. But it still missed bits, notably the crosses on my Ts. I’m feeling a bit like if I have to fundamentally alter the way i write for it to work, it’s not going to be ideal for me – i guess i should get some kids to try it and see if it’s just the strength (or lack!) of my writing.
Needless to say that with all those problems, the text recognition didn’t work on my writing at all!
Anyone had similar problems?
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May 8th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Hmm. Sorry to hear about these problems … it sounds as if you’re not leaning on it enough. I can’t say it’s a problem I’ve found, and my pupils have all had their writing picked up okay, but I must say that I think my writing is neater when I use the DigiMemo because I’m more conscious of the text recognition part. Hope you get it worked out!
May 8th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
The leaning should be on the pen, not the pad, because it’s the pen that picks up the writing. So maybe it is the battery … but strange that it picks up some and not others. Hmmm.
May 8th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I could drop in on Thursday morning early and check the board if it would help. Please phone the CLC to confirm. Judy