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Livescribe launches into K-12 education arena with Pulse smartpen

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Changing How Teachers Deliver Instruction and Students Process Class Information

Livescribe Inc. debuted its award-winning Pulse smartpen and mobile computing platform to administrators and educators at the National Educators Computer Conference (NECC). The Pulse smartpen is a computer in a pen that captures everything a person hears and writes and syncs the notes and audio together. Administrators, teachers and students alike can simply tap on their handwritten notes with their smartpen to hear the conversation play back from that exact moment in time.

The notes and audio can be transferred to their computer for backup, search, playback or sharing. This simple-to-use technology provides students with on-demand access to teacher instruction and enables school administrators and teachers to evaluate classroom performance, teaching quality and student progress efficiently and accurately.

“The most effective educational technologies are the ones that require minimal behavioral change on the part of the teacher and the learner,” said Byron Connell, chief marketing officer of Livescribe Inc. “Pulse is as intuitive to use as regular pen and paper with all the power and functionality of a computer.”

For more information on how the Pulse smartpen improves student learning and teaching effectiveness, please visit www.livescribe.com/education. Livescribe is exhibiting at the NECC Conference in Washington, D.C. this week in booth 3260.

Examples of Pencasts Created Using the Pulse Smartpen from Teachers and Students

Julie McLeod, Rountree Elementary School, Sixth Grade Math
http://juliemcleod.org/mathcasts/

Chuck Duncan, Kentucky Education Television, Distance Learning Physics
http://www.dl.ket.org/physicsap/physicsapPCast/tocPencasts.html

Kathleen Post, Pocono Christian Home Education Center, Trigonometry
http://mathfcs.wikispaces.com/Advanced+Math

Tips and Tricks: More Ways to Share Your Notes and Recordings

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Looking to share your notes and recordings? You can easily share your notes and recordings from your computer or online! Here’s how:

From Livescribe Desktop for Mac or Windows

  • Save your notes as a PDF file
  • Export your audio recordings into a MP4 or WAV file (Windows) or an AAC file (Mac)
  • From Livescribe Online

    Private sharing options (all your notes and recordings are private by default):

  • Email a friend
  • Download as a PDF file
  • Public sharing options:

  • Includes all the private sharing options
  • Send a link
  • Share on Facebook
  • Embed a pencast on your website or blog
  • Share on the Livescribe Community
  • Want to know what a pencast is? Read our blog post about pencasts here.

    Livescribe is on-the-go in June: LegalTech, CAPA, and NECC

    Monday, June 15th, 2009

    Livescribe is hitting the road and exhibiting at trade shows all over the map in June, so stop by our booth and check out the Pulse smartpen!

    LegalTech: West Coast (June 24-25)
    Booth #137
    Los Angeles Convention Center
    Los Angeles, CA
    www.legaltechshow.com

    NECC (National Education Computing Conference) (June 29-30)
    Booth #3260
    Walter E. Washington Convention Center
    Washington D.C.
    http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/

    Education Pencasts from the Livescribe Community

    Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

    We’ve discovered educators and teachers – who are using their Pulse smartpen to capture their class lessons, explanations, and lectures – are embedding pencasts online for their students and readers to review and replay. Here are some sites with educational pencasts ranging from solving algebra problems to defining research process to explaining developmental psychology. Enjoy!

    Want more? Go ahead and peruse our Livescribe Community. If you’d like to see your pencast in our next round-up of pencasts, please email klee @ livescribe.com.

    Julie McLeod, Rountree Elementary School, Sixth Grade Math Teacher

     Mrs. McLeod’s sixth grade math students use the Pulse smartpen to document their thought process as they solve math problems.

    Chuck Duncan, Kentucky Educational Television, Distance Learning Physics Teacher

     Mr. Duncan provides his distance learning students with the ability to check their homework and master concepts by watching him demonstrate physics problems using the Pulse smartpen.

    Chris Craft, Cross Roads Middle School, Spanish and Latin Teacher

     Mr. Craft uses his Pulse smartpen to allow special needs students to playback handwritten notes and audio at their pace for on-demand access to instruction.

    Noelle Kreider, Rialto Unified School District, Technology Integration Coach

     As a technology integration coach, Mrs. Kreider uses the Pulse smartpen to capture information, record observations, model note taking, capture drawings and record meetings.

    Kathleen Post, Pocono Christian Home Education Center, Algebra Teacher

     Mrs. Post uses her Pulse smartpen to share notes with her students in order to better explain answers to complicated math problems.

    Tips and Tricks: Capture Writing Without Audio

    Monday, June 1st, 2009

    If you want to just take notes without recording audio, power on your Pulse smartpen and start taking notes on Livescribe dot paper. It will automatically capture everything you write or draw.

    If you want to record audio, just tap on the record button and your smartpen will automatically start linking the audio to your notes.

    When you dock your Pulse smartpen to your computer, your notes and drawings will appear as black ink (versus green ink, which means there is audio linked to your notes) on Livescribe Desktop. From there, you can easily export your notes as a PDF file and email them to your friends or colleagues.

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