By now you’ve heard the news about our consumer launch of the Sky wifi smartpen! On the education side, we’re very excited to announce our pilot programs with education institutions to evaluate the uses and impact of the Sky wifi smartpen on learning, as we posted Monday. …

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As we approach the end of summer, teachers everywhere are preparing for the new school year! Here’s our “Dynamic Dictionary” tip, a fun back-to-school idea from Livescribe’s education idea book: …

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Hundreds of educators stopped by the Livescribe booth at ISTE 2012 to experience an interactive classroom and listen to other educators share their stories. Educators presented throughout the day to share their experience using the Livescribe smartpen and then gave away a free smartpen at the end of each session. Between presentations visitors entered our audio-enhanced interactive classroom to see these instructional resources: …

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This post comes from Collaboration Without Boundaries, a Professional Learning Network (PLN) of graphically isolated professionals using 21^st Century Technology in their classrooms. The task of each member of the PLN is to:

• create a classroom specific inquiry project using the same technology
• share their findings with the group
• commit to use the other members’ ideas within their own classroom

Recently one teacher shared with the PLN her story on using the Livescribe smartpen.

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Henry Buchtel is a Chinese translator also teaching children English.

I wanted to share a few pages of teaching material that I created to teach young (5-6yo) children English.

I used the Livescribe Echo Smartpen, which allows you to create documents with embedded audio, so clicking on a certain line of text will start the audio recording associated with that text.

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