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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We’re excited to share that Derrick Meador at About.com recently featured Nick Provenzano — known to some of you as The Nerdy Teacher — in an article about the technology and apps he uses in the classroom. Nick is an English teacher at Grosse Point Public Schools in Michigan, and this year he’s teaching Freshman English, Honors American Literature, and Traditional American Literature classes. Nick uses an iPad, Evernote, and a Livescribe smartpen in his classroom. …

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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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For 13 years Elementary teacher Brittany Williams has taught reading, math and everything in between.  She recently shared her Livescribe story with us about how smartpens facilitate her school’s Writing Workshops as well as her own class projects.

Ms. Williams tells us, “I’ve been using the smartpen for a little over a year.  It was purchased by the PTA as part of our digital storytelling center… The digital storytelling center consists of a laptop, a scanner, a microphone and the smartpen. For the students it is a place to record and plan their stories.” Brittany explains that based on the individual 3^rd grader the writing workshop can be a group activity, an individual project, or the student and herself working together. …

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Next week my students in my Math For Elementary Teachers class will be creating a Glog: an interactive, online poster. GlogsterEDU will allow them to create their Glog for free and publish it to their Google Website for the class.

I just finished creating a new Glog to show a few uses of the Livescribe smartpen in the classroom. I plan on using this as an example when I teach them how to use GlogsterEDU.

View the original post on Sue’s Blog.

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