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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Today we’re excited to announce the consumer launch of our Sky wifi smartpen, the first digital pen to use WiFi technology and cloud services. Over the next few months, we’ll be engaged in extensive pilot programs with select school districts and higher education institutions to assess use cases and the impact of Sky both in and out of the classroom. The results of the pilot program will influence education bundles, training, and additional services. We’ll officially launch the Sky wifi smartpen for the education market in early 2013. …

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Veronique Richard is an adult grad student with ADHD, but she didn’t let her learning disability stop her from graduating from UC Berkeley with a BA in psychology and a minor in disabilities studies, and she certainly doesn’t let it stop her from pursuing her Master’s degree at San Francisco State University. …

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At the end of last month, Evernote hosted their Creating Portfolios workshop, which proved to be a great opportunity for educators to learn how to use cloud technologies in their classroom. The half day workshop focused on instructing educators how to help students record their work and save it to their online portfolios. …

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Greg Sumner believes in the power of videos. An occupational therapist and consultant at Northfield Public School in Northfield, Minn., Greg works with 25 K-12 students a week. He spent the last 10 years as an assistive technology specialist, visiting different schools to expose them to the latest educational technology. …

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