Anyone who teaches middle school knows that convincing students a school project is “cool” is half the battle. Once a project or a lesson has the cool factor, getting them to participate is easy. …

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Last week we posted about Beth Evans, ESL instructor from Burlington, Vt. who’s teaching her English language learners with the Livescribe smartpen. As promised, today we’re sharing a series of videos documenting  Beth’s work with one of her students, embedded below. We’ve also embedded a pencast made by one of her students. Enjoy! …

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Today’s guest post is by educator Sam Patterson. Sam Patterson is a Dean of Student Advising and teaches 9th grade English at Kehillah Jewish High School.  Sam’s dissertation looked at the impact of a camp-style environment on learning to write. He blogs about his efforts to integrate technology into his teaching at his website, My Paperless Classroom. …

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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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We featured Florida math teacher Donna Noll here on the Livescribe Education blog a few weeks ago because we love her creative use of technology in her classroom — and so does US News & World Report! Yesterday they featured a story on Donna and other math teachers using the Livescribe smartpen in their classrooms. Donna has connected with her students on Facebook by creating a class fan page, SemiNoll Math. She then creates pencasts and posts them to on the fan page for her students to reference. …

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