There are times when a childs IEP will call for all test questions and possible responses to be read to the child. The IEP may also call for the student to be allowed the accommodation of responding verbally to the questions. It is a time consuming task for the teacher to have to sit with each child and individually read each question and possible response. By printing the test questions on dot enabled paper, the teacher is able to record the question and responses one time, and then use the same sheet numerous times with different students. If the child needs to make a verbal response, he/she can tap record on a blank Pulse notebook page and verbally give their response.

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It is often difficult for the teacher to leave written detailed notes for the substitute teacher. In this example, the teacher makes basic notes in the dot-enabled lesson planner and then leaves more detailed verbal notes for the sub.

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This is a Learning Center Activity for K or 1st grade classrooms. The teacher has pre-recorded the Phoneme Blending lesson instructions and the lesson itself. Student can access the audio explanations in their learning center group, freeing up the teacher to work with other groups or students.

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Wow! I just received an extraordinary email with a link to the above YouTube video!

I think you’ll agree that SmartMap is exceptional. But it gets even better. SmartMap’s creator, Jacky Nguyen, wrote me to say that he “would love to share the whole source-code as open-source software to other developers, many of which might find it useful.” Isn’t that fantastic news?! I know that it’s going to inspire me to finally try my hand at creating an application and that it will help encourage and inspire many others to do the same.

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For years, students have tape recorded lectures to make sure they don’t miss anything important when taking notes.  The problem with this is for every hour spent in class, you spend an hour listening outside of class.  It’s either that, or you spend an hour trying to find the spot on the tape that you really need to hear again.  Fortunately, technology has made this task so much easier!

Enter, the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen.

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