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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Last week was the consumer launch of our newest smartpen, the Sky wifi smartpen. We shared ideas for creating digital portfolios with the new integration of Sky and Evernote, and this week we’d like to share more information about Sky’s pilot program in higher education. …

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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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In the digital age, it’s no big secret that we don’t write by hand nearly as much as people did in the past. When documents can be typed much faster and more easily than they can be printed or written, many of us write longhand less and less. …

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