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Good news for students going back to school this month—Pulse is a winning pick! Scholastic’s Instructor Magazine challenged teacher testers from around the country to evaluate learning tools, and Pulse is officially named a Teacher’s Pick!
Look for us in Instructor’s August issue. A big thank you to the teachers out there that have been bringing Pulse into the classroom, and to Instructor Magazine for the honor!
The Livescribe team made a splash at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) last month held in Washington D.C. Check out some of our pictures from the Pulse booth, where we gave away Pulse smartpens to some lucky winners!
For more pictures, visit our Facebook page.
Entering to win a free Pulse pen!
Teachers and educators learn how to bring Pulse to their classrooms.
A lucky winner!
A happy new Pulse owner.
Changing How Teachers Deliver Instruction and Students Process Class Information
Livescribe Inc. debuted its award-winning Pulse smartpen and mobile computing platform to administrators and educators at the National Educators Computer Conference (NECC). The Pulse smartpen is a computer in a pen that captures everything a person hears and writes and syncs the notes and audio together. Administrators, teachers and students alike can simply tap on their handwritten notes with their smartpen to hear the conversation play back from that exact moment in time.
The notes and audio can be transferred to their computer for backup, search, playback or sharing. This simple-to-use technology provides students with on-demand access to teacher instruction and enables school administrators and teachers to evaluate classroom performance, teaching quality and student progress efficiently and accurately.
“The most effective educational technologies are the ones that require minimal behavioral change on the part of the teacher and the learner,” said Byron Connell, chief marketing officer of Livescribe Inc. “Pulse is as intuitive to use as regular pen and paper with all the power and functionality of a computer.”
For more information on how the Pulse smartpen improves student learning and teaching effectiveness, please visit www.livescribe.com/education. Livescribe is exhibiting at the NECC Conference in Washington, D.C. this week in booth 3260.
Examples of Pencasts Created Using the Pulse Smartpen from Teachers and Students
Julie McLeod, Rountree Elementary School, Sixth Grade Math
http://juliemcleod.org/mathcasts/
Chuck Duncan, Kentucky Education Television, Distance Learning Physics
http://www.dl.ket.org/physicsap/physicsapPCast/tocPencasts.html
Kathleen Post, Pocono Christian Home Education Center, Trigonometry
http://mathfcs.wikispaces.com/Advanced+Math
We’ve discovered educators and teachers – who are using their Pulse smartpen to capture their class lessons, explanations, and lectures – are embedding pencasts online for their students and readers to review and replay. Here are some sites with educational pencasts ranging from solving algebra problems to defining research process to explaining developmental psychology. Enjoy!
Want more? Go ahead and peruse our Livescribe Community. If you’d like to see your pencast in our next round-up of pencasts, please email klee @ livescribe.com.
Julie McLeod, Rountree Elementary School, Sixth Grade Math Teacher
Mrs. McLeod’s sixth grade math students use the Pulse smartpen to document their thought process as they solve math problems.
Chuck Duncan, Kentucky Educational Television, Distance Learning Physics Teacher
Mr. Duncan provides his distance learning students with the ability to check their homework and master concepts by watching him demonstrate physics problems using the Pulse smartpen.
Chris Craft, Cross Roads Middle School, Spanish and Latin Teacher
Mr. Craft uses his Pulse smartpen to allow special needs students to playback handwritten notes and audio at their pace for on-demand access to instruction.
Noelle Kreider, Rialto Unified School District, Technology Integration Coach
As a technology integration coach, Mrs. Kreider uses the Pulse smartpen to capture information, record observations, model note taking, capture drawings and record meetings.
Kathleen Post, Pocono Christian Home Education Center, Algebra Teacher
Mrs. Post uses her Pulse smartpen to share notes with her students in order to better explain answers to complicated math problems.
Educators within the Livescribe Community are continuously developing new and creative ways to use the Pulse smartpen for teaching and student learning in their classrooms. Here’s just one example from Steve Silverman, a physics teacher at Chatham High School in New Jersey.
As a physics teacher, Mr. Silverman has his students do a lot of labs and solve thousands of problems. When he stands at a whiteboard, the kids tend to fall asleep. With the Pulse smartpen, he can write out the answers to problems when the kids aren’t around and post them on Livescribe Online. The school has a mobile computer cart that comes to Mr. Silverman’s room once a week so they can check answers at their own pace and listen to the explanations. This helps his students learn at their own pace and also allows them to have access to his explanations outside of the classroom.
Physics teacher Steve Silverman uses the Pulse smartpen to capture his problem-set explanations and later posts them online for his students to review and replay.
“As soon as I saw the Pulse smartpen, I knew it could really change the way I teach,” said Mr. Silverman. “The kids love it that they can check answers at their own place rather than listening to me talk away at the chalkboard all day.”
