{"id":316,"date":"2025-12-12T13:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ealss\/?page_id=316"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:38:13","slug":"talking-pens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ealss\/technology\/talking-pens\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Pens- PENpal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENpal is a commercial device that plays back audio when it touches compatible printed books, posters, stickers giving a multisensory reading experience. Each PENpal can read over 1700 books and posters. Those books are dual language and\u00a0 PENpal will play back audio every time it touches a page &#8211; in English or in a choice of over 60 languages.<\/p>\n<p>*Note that PENpal is not compatible with Chromebooks. Audio files must be transferred from a Windows PC or Mac<\/p>\n<p>PENpal is a flexible and portable device with great potential for both classroom and personal use. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/ealss\/uploads\/sites\/14817\/2025\/12\/18153806\/Dec-2025-Help-Sheet-Talking-Pens.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Dec 2025 Help Sheet Talking Pens.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-045e5345-59f8-4427-ad33-16d410bf0df0\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/ealss\/uploads\/sites\/14817\/2025\/12\/18153806\/Dec-2025-Help-Sheet-Talking-Pens.pdf\">Dec 2025 Help Sheet Talking Pens<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/ealss\/uploads\/sites\/14817\/2025\/12\/18153806\/Dec-2025-Help-Sheet-Talking-Pens.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-045e5345-59f8-4427-ad33-16d410bf0df0\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PENpal is a commercial device that plays back audio when it touches compatible printed books, posters, stickers giving a multisensory reading experience. Each PENpal can read over 1700 books and posters. Those books are dual language and\u00a0 PENpal will play back audio every time it touches a page &#8211; in English or in a choice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25599,"featured_media":0,"parent":164,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-316","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ealss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ealss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ealss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ealss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ealss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ealss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ealss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions\/400"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ealss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ealss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}