As many high school students, teachers, and parents alike know, SAT and ACT test dates are fast approaching, and it can be tough to find the time to study amidst homework, sports practices, and other extracurricular activities.  However, new edtech tools can help students study smarter so they feel more confident as test dates approach. We’ve created a roundup of our favorite study tools for high school students preparing for standardized tests. …

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We’re thrilled to be at FETC 2013 this week, or the national Florida Educational Technology Corporation conference, one of the largest K-12 edtech conferences in the country. We’re also pleased to announce our new Smartpen Education Bundles and customized training programs for educators and students as part of qualified institutions so that we can offer savings to K-12 and higher ed institutions. These special offers will include savings on the Sky wifi smartpen, the latest member of the smartpen family that integrates WiFi technology and cloud services to send notes and audio wirelessly to your Evernote account. Have a closed WiFi network at your school? Not to worry. We’ve just launched our new Livescribe Helper application in order to give teachers and students the option of syncing their notes and audio from the smartpen to their Evernote account over a USB cable. To use, simply download the Helper app and use your smartpen’s micro-USB cable as an alternate way to sync to Evernote. …

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The Sky wifi smartpen has recently been featured in the Palo Alto Technology-Using Educators (#PATUE) weekly edtech conference series. The goal of the weekly meetups, put together by Sam Patterson, Dean of Student Advising and Outreach and English teacher at Kehillah Jewish High School, is to serve teachers who would like to be more connected in edtech. Each week, the meetup is live-streamed and prepared as a video podcast, which is then followed by an online chat about the workshop’s topic. …

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We recently featured Sue Park’s experience teaching math to her third-grade students using the Echo smartpen. Today we are sharing her experience working with students on reading fluency using Sound Stickers. Sue is a third-grade teacher at Lafayette Elementary School in Northern California. You can visit her class page here. …

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Last week we shared the news about our Sky wifi smartpen pilot program in higher education, and this week we’re excited to announce our pilot program in K12 as well! Our pilot program will assess use cases, as well as the impact of using the Sky wifi smartpen both in and out of the classroom. The Sky wifi smartpen pilot program will culminate in the spring of 2013, at which time Livescribe will share highlights and results of the program. These results will help influence education product bundles, training and additional services in the future. …

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