Dual Language Penpal
This penPal only works on our Dual Language Books
 
PENpal is a device that plays back audio when it touches printed books, posters, stickers giving a multisensory reading experience. Each PENpal can read over 1700 books and posters and this list is always growing as new publications are launched. (Note that PENpal is not compatible with Chromebooks.
 
The books are all in dual language, so PENpal will play back audio every time it touches a page - in English or in a choice of over 60 languages.
there is an extensive range of videos starting from basics such as how to switch on, volume control .... to adding sound to any book. Please click here..
And that is not all. PENpal comes with 3 easy to use software, FREE.1. Would you like to sound enable any book, be it your favourite book or a prescribed text? It is easy with CreateLINK.
2. You already have PENpal. Now you have bought a Mantra Lingua book with sound effects. How would you find the specific file for the book you bought? It is easy with FREElink. Yes, all the files are free so take as many as you wish.
3. There is a method of teaching which believes that children learn best by discussing, debating, narrating, exploring in groups. It is called "Collaborative Learning" and we have a series of learning activities using this method. With the free ShareLINK software, students with English as a second language can play the games, and with PENpal they can listen to how others playing the same game adapted it into another language.
 
How does it work? PENpal is a barcode reader, with a difference. It detects 'micro' barcodes, so small that you can hardly see them and therefore the barcodes do not ruin any artwork. The tip of the pen is a barcode reader and when a 'soundspot' with its unique barcode is detected, PENpal plays back the audio .mp3 file associated with it.