Evidence-based ideas to help kids communicate, connect, empathize, and read minds. Â© 2015 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved. Social skills activities put to the test. We want our children to succeed in the social world--to learn how to cooperate, make friends, and negotiate conflicts.
A light pen is a light-sensitive computer input pointing device shaped like a wand. It is connected to a visual display unit or CRT monitor and allows the user to modify data and text or make menu selections on the screen. Light pens became popular during the 1980s.
These historic types of pens are no longer in common use as writing instruments, but may be used by calligraphers and other artists: 1  A dip pen (or nib pen) consists of a metal nib with capillary channels, like that of a fountain pen, mounted on a handle or holder, often made of wood.