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Lots and Lots of Livescribe

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:43:56 +0000

We were lucky enough to start a livescribe pilot project here this year. Participating teachers were provided with two livescribe pens and we will be sharing what we find over the next year. One thing we hadn’t planned on was the move to using a class set of pens to capture student work. Actually, we’re using a half-class set. 15 pens. Students work in partners. So far we’ve done this to collect student work for teacher professional development (and used it to move students learning along). We’ve also had secondary classes create final exam reviews. They worked in pairs and created tutorials on various topics. We then posted these tutorials on a wiki or teacher web page for students to access from home while studying. Below is a quick pencast about some of the things we’ve learned about managing and using a class set.

Shared Class set of pens
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Sourcing Material

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:14:55 +0000

Sorry, again this is something we created for students that I needed to share with some teachers.

sourcing material
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Different Ways to Demonstrate your Understanding

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:06:44 +0000

This is being used for some students.

Sometimes you may get to choose how you want to demonstrate your understanding of a topic or concept. Below are some ideas on ways you may choose to do so.

* Essay
* Research Report
* News Article
* Bitstrips
* Animoto
* Xtranormal
* Video – using any video editing software, digital camcorder, etc.
* Digital storytelling – Voice over images and photos or video clips
* Blog post – using blogging program like edublogs.org, kidblog.org, wordpress.com
* Podcast or audio clip
* Livescribe Pencast
* Website – google sites, yola.com, weebly.com
* Wiki – wikispaces.com
* Pecha Kucha
* Timeline
* Voicethread
* PREZI
* Mind Maps

This is quick discussion outlining some of the benefits and challenges for each method of demonstrating your understanding.

Ways to demonstrate your understanding
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Live Learning with Livescribe

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:29:00 +0000

If you haven’t seen this blog and TLLP project by Zoe Branigan-Pipe, Aviva Dunsinger and others, you must! It’s a great way to share ways of increasing student achievement and demonstrations of student work. It really is all about student work. I’ve finally folded and ordered my own Livescribe Pen. I can’t wait for it to arrive.

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