A few months ago, I was sent some samples of styluses (styli?) that work well with iPads and such. Intended to go with a program called Bamboo Paper, I immediately downloaded said app on our iPads.
Yesterday, we set up our virtual notebooks for school: A blue, square-paper notebook for maths, two yellow notebooks (one for word work, the other for rich mentor texts) and a green one for Social Studies.
Although the boys were excited about this new learning technology and keen to use their mini-pens, they found this particular stylus too small to work with (I think it would be ideal in the hands of a phone-wielding adult... it just didn't really work effectively with the kids' small hands). The other issue was that because of the extremely protective cases on their iPads, the stylus is somewhat difficult to use in terms of touch sensitivity (it worked fine on my unprotected screen).
Yesterday, we set up our virtual notebooks for school: A blue, square-paper notebook for maths, two yellow notebooks (one for word work, the other for rich mentor texts) and a green one for Social Studies.
Although the boys were excited about this new learning technology and keen to use their mini-pens, they found this particular stylus too small to work with (I think it would be ideal in the hands of a phone-wielding adult... it just didn't really work effectively with the kids' small hands). The other issue was that because of the extremely protective cases on their iPads, the stylus is somewhat difficult to use in terms of touch sensitivity (it worked fine on my unprotected screen).
I'm reticent to remove the boys' cases and let them work directly on the screen with the stylus, but am eager to find a solution -- the virtual notebook thing seems like it has a lot of potential, especially because we have so few "actual" supplies!